splendens
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Nice list! From the wild list I have seen 4 of the birds. How was the viewing like for the Devil's hole pupfish since the hole is fenced off? Were the Sonoyta pupfish easy to see?
Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen
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CarnotaurusSastrei
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At Quitobaquito, it's pretty easy to see the Sonoyta pupfish because you are able to get pretty close to the water. When it came to Devil's Hole, due to the distance between the viewing platform and the water, I was only really able to see one of the pupfish by looking through a pair of binoculars that I brought with me.
splendens
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Awesome! Are the bullet ants at Shedd on display and do you know if they are Paraponera clavata?
They were Paraponera clavata, though Shedd no longer keeps them unfortunately.
When did the New York Aquarium have a narwhal?! That's a really cool species to have had the chance to see.
I'm definitely jealous of this one- tarsiers are so weird and some of my favorite animals out there- unfortunately I'm unlikely to ever get the chance to see one in real life.
I can definitely recommend the experience of seeing wild Tarsiers on Sulawesi!
I was lucky to be taken "behind the scenes" to see a Sulawesi tarsier at the Rare Species Conservation Centre. And I was fortunate to see Philippine tarsiers several times at both Frankfurt Zoo and Bristol Zoo. Sadly I doubt I'll ever see another tarsier again.
Prochilodus246
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I may not have a long list of rarities but I can't think of too many Zoochatters that have seen these species:
African butterflyfish Chaetodon dolosus
Flathead perch Rainfordia opercularis
Oreni tilefish Hoplolatilus oreni
Kidako moray Gymnothorax kidako
I could go into vast detail about the wild insect and other invertebrates that I have seen but many are just overlooked and not necessarily rare.
African butterflyfish Chaetodon dolosus
Flathead perch Rainfordia opercularis
Oreni tilefish Hoplolatilus oreni
Kidako moray Gymnothorax kidako
I could go into vast detail about the wild insect and other invertebrates that I have seen but many are just overlooked and not necessarily rare.
Il gattopardo
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Bigger chance to see Tarsiers is in Taman Indonesia Zoo II (Prigen, East Java) . This zoo has even a Tarsir House (!) which visitors enter to see Tarsir in outside aviaries. In the quite moring / evening ours you nearly always will see one of them.
olhl.animal.photography
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For a chance at captive tarsiers if you can't make it to Indonesia, they have a Sulawesi Tarsier at the Rare Species Conservation Centre in the UK I believe.
cornu aspersum
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The RSCC is closed.
olhl.animal.photography
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ah okay my bad
Squalius ghigii, the Rhodes Minnow (actually a kind of dwarf chub). I'm unaware of any collection which holds them and they don't even appear on ZTL, but I have a fair sized shoal obtained from a private breeder in Sunderland and have had some success with breeding them myself.
Squalius ghigii summary page
Squalius ghigii summary page
Sicarius
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and the two tarsiers were sent to Ouwehands in the Netherlands, where they died of pneumonia. This was back in 2017.
Dr. Wolverine
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A couple ones I've added via birding and wildlife watching:
(All wild species so don't go hard on me saying that they're common in captivity even though most of them aren't except for the mammals)
WILD Birds that few ZCtters have seen
Japanese Accentor (1st image on ZC)
Japanese Green Woodpecker
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher (1st image on ZC)
Black-faced Spoonbill (Relatively common in captivity throughout East Asia, VERY common in captivity in Japan, pretty endangered and scarce in the wild)
Asian Stubtail (1st image on ZC)
Eastern White's Thrush
Straw Headed Bulbul
Japanese Grosbeak
Grey Bunting (No Image on ZC)
Japanese Wagtail (1st image on ZC)
Eastern Crowned Warbler (1st image on ZC)
Eastern Buzzard
Long Billed Plover (No Image on ZC)
Terek Sandpiper (1st image on ZC)
WILD Endemic Mammals in Japan that few ZCtters have seen
Japanese Squirrel
Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel
Japanese Hare
Japanese House Bat
Japanese Long-Eared Bat
Japanese Raccoon Dog
Japanese Marten
Japanese Serow
Other pretty not-so-common species from the wild (Japan Endemics)
Daruma Pond Frog
Pelophylax nigromaculatus
Japanese Brown Frog
Montane Brown Frog
Japanese Tree Frog
Kajika Frog
Japanese Common Toad
Eastern japanese Skink
Japanese Skink
Japanese Grass Lizard
Japanese Gecko
Japanese Rat Snake
Japanese Striped Snake
Japanese Brown Snake
(All wild species so don't go hard on me saying that they're common in captivity even though most of them aren't except for the mammals)
WILD Birds that few ZCtters have seen
Japanese Accentor (1st image on ZC)
Japanese Green Woodpecker
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher (1st image on ZC)
Black-faced Spoonbill (Relatively common in captivity throughout East Asia, VERY common in captivity in Japan, pretty endangered and scarce in the wild)
Asian Stubtail (1st image on ZC)
Eastern White's Thrush
Straw Headed Bulbul
Japanese Grosbeak
Grey Bunting (No Image on ZC)
Japanese Wagtail (1st image on ZC)
Eastern Crowned Warbler (1st image on ZC)
Eastern Buzzard
Long Billed Plover (No Image on ZC)
Terek Sandpiper (1st image on ZC)
WILD Endemic Mammals in Japan that few ZCtters have seen
Japanese Squirrel
Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel
Japanese Hare
Japanese House Bat
Japanese Long-Eared Bat
Japanese Raccoon Dog
Japanese Marten
Japanese Serow
Other pretty not-so-common species from the wild (Japan Endemics)
Daruma Pond Frog
Pelophylax nigromaculatus
Japanese Brown Frog
Montane Brown Frog
Japanese Tree Frog
Kajika Frog
Japanese Common Toad
Eastern japanese Skink
Japanese Skink
Japanese Grass Lizard
Japanese Gecko
Japanese Rat Snake
Japanese Striped Snake
Japanese Brown Snake
Eastern Crowned Warbler is on my U.K. list having twitched the first one in Northumberland! Terek Sandpiper is also on my U.K. list, and I have seen the Wagtail, Pygmy Woodpecker, Thrush, Bulbul and Spoonbill wild in Japan or Korea.
Would Persian Leopards count? I saw them at Cleveland years ago before they were phased out of US Zoos.
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Sicarius
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From an American perspective: yes.
For this thread: not so much. It's kept in almost 50 zoos worldwide.
Northwest_FIsh_Keeping
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I'll have to make a list soon since fortunately I've been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium & California Academy of Sciences quite a few times so I've seen some really rare species. However I'm just at the tail end of my Oahu trip and got to visit the Waikiki Aquarium & Bishop Museum. The Waikiki Aquarium is known in the Aquarium community to have housed some of the rarest species in captivity at points in its history, and still does to this day. So far here's some notable ones: (all of these were posted in the media section for the Aquarium)
•Abe's Angelfish (Centropyge abei) - Only individual on public display worldwide (the other 6 or 7 in captivity are in private collections)
•Masked Angelfish (Genicanthus personatus)
•Bandit Angelfish (Apolemichthys arcuatus)
•Hawaiian Morwong (Goniistisus vittatus)
(They also did have a sign for a Smith's Butterfly Fish 'Chaetodon smithi' which would make it the only individual(s) on public display worldwide, but I didn't get a glimpse)
The Bishop Museum is more of a natural history Museum with just 3 tanks (1 Freshwater showing invasive endlers, 1 that showcases a few shallow water predators, and 1 Twighlight Zone tank for this next species) so it doesn't have a media section on here like the California Academy of Sciences. However, because some of the most famous ichthyologists work here, they've had the opportunity to display one of the rarest Butterfly Fish in captivity.
This is the Pete Basabei's / Orange Fin Butterfly Fish (Prognathodes basabei). Only housed at the Bishop Museum & the NOAA Center on the Big Island (The Waikiki Aquarium used to have one, but it's not on display anymore). This fish was only described 9 years ago by scientists that work at the Museum. It's endemic to the Mesophotic Zone of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off of Oahu. Some individuals are in private Japanese collections when Hawaii used to be open for export, but I'm not sure if they're still alive.
•Abe's Angelfish (Centropyge abei) - Only individual on public display worldwide (the other 6 or 7 in captivity are in private collections)
•Masked Angelfish (Genicanthus personatus)
•Bandit Angelfish (Apolemichthys arcuatus)
•Hawaiian Morwong (Goniistisus vittatus)
(They also did have a sign for a Smith's Butterfly Fish 'Chaetodon smithi' which would make it the only individual(s) on public display worldwide, but I didn't get a glimpse)
The Bishop Museum is more of a natural history Museum with just 3 tanks (1 Freshwater showing invasive endlers, 1 that showcases a few shallow water predators, and 1 Twighlight Zone tank for this next species) so it doesn't have a media section on here like the California Academy of Sciences. However, because some of the most famous ichthyologists work here, they've had the opportunity to display one of the rarest Butterfly Fish in captivity.
This is the Pete Basabei's / Orange Fin Butterfly Fish (Prognathodes basabei). Only housed at the Bishop Museum & the NOAA Center on the Big Island (The Waikiki Aquarium used to have one, but it's not on display anymore). This fish was only described 9 years ago by scientists that work at the Museum. It's endemic to the Mesophotic Zone of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off of Oahu. Some individuals are in private Japanese collections when Hawaii used to be open for export, but I'm not sure if they're still alive.