Animals You've Seen That Few Zoochatters Have Seen

What critters on your bucket list of animals you would really like to see, but no zoochatters have mentioned yet? This possibly deserves its own thread, but easier to check if anyone has seen one. Lets limit this to creatures known to science but probably or highly possibly not extinct
(so like no bigfoot or kouprey etc)
For me:
Mountain Nyala
Tamaraw
Giant Sable antelope
Przewalski's gazelle
Saola
kodkod
ivory billed woodpecker
Yangtze giant soft shelled turtle
Ploughshare tortoise
Vegas Valley leopard frog (100% genetically the same as mogollon rim chiricahua leopard frog)
 
Daktari JG said:
What critters on your bucket list of animals you would really like to see, but no zoochatters have mentioned yet? This possibly deserves its own thread, but easier to check if anyone has seen one. Lets limit this to creatures known to science but probably or highly possibly not extinct
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Similar to this: I was thinking recently based on this thread, are there any species that no zoochatters have seen? You might be on to one with your mention of saola, but not sure how many others there'd be.
 
Daktari JG said:
What critters on your bucket list of animals you would really like to see, but no zoochatters have mentioned yet? This possibly deserves its own thread, but easier to check if anyone has seen one. Lets limit this to creatures known to science but probably or highly possibly not extinct
(so like no bigfoot or kouprey etc)
For me:
Mountain Nyala
Tamaraw
Giant Sable antelope
Przewalski's gazelle
Saola
kodkod
ivory billed woodpecker
Yangtze giant soft shelled turtle
Ploughshare tortoise
Vegas Valley leopard frog (100% genetically the same as mogollon rim chiricahua leopard frog)
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There are photos in the galleries for at least five of those, so I think it's safe to say that they have been seen by some Zoochatter or other.
 
CarnotaurusSastrei said:
I'd imagine there are plenty of deep sea organisms that could fit that criterion
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My mind first jumped to colossal squid, which is cheating given nobody has seen one alive outside of a handful of researchers. But I'd be interested to know if any Zoochatters have seen a giant squid, given surface sightings have been though uncommon fairly well documented.

Reverting to the original point of the thread, in the recent term Javan leopard is likely my rarest sighting yet to be mentioned. However I'm aware they were more common in the past.
 
I've seen the following

Persian Leopard: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Silver Gull: National Aviary
Ancient Murrelet: Wild (Vagrant)

Don't know if these have been mentioned yet
 
Noah Butas said:
I've seen the following

Persian Leopard: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Silver Gull: National Aviary
Ancient Murrelet: Wild (Vagrant)

Don't know if these have been mentioned yet
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The leopard is very common in Europe, so the majority of European zoo enthusiasts would have seen them. Your other two should count for this thread, however.
 
Noah Butas said:
I've seen the following

Persian Leopard: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Silver Gull: National Aviary
Ancient Murrelet: Wild (Vagrant)

Don't know if these have been mentioned yet
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I've seen Ancient Murrelet in the wild, too. They're so cute.

I'm pretty sure any ZooChatter from New Zealand (or anyone who's been there) will have seen Silver Gull.
 
YES it certainly would, which reminds me that I have seen a Palmer's Chipmunk in the wild
I doubt it has ever been displayed anywhere in captivity. If you want to see one come to Vegas- drive up to Mt Charleston (bout an hour away) and boom -can't miss em.
 
I forgot to mention these (unsure if they've been said before)

Golden-winged Warbler: Wild
Kirtland's Warbler: Wild
Painted Indonesian Tree Frog: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
 
Noah Butas said:
I forgot to mention these (unsure if they've been said before)

Golden-winged Warbler: Wild
Kirtland's Warbler: Wild
Painted Indonesian Tree Frog: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
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Kirtland's Warbler definitely counts, though I have also seen them in the wild a couple of times.

Golden-winged I'm sure more ZooChatters have seen. I've seen them many, many times. I've also seen Brewster's Warbler a couple of times.
 
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