Well that's pretty cool. Haven't seen Northern white rhinos and I doubt I ever will.
Animals ZooChatters Have Seen Living Before Extinction
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Do you mean Baiji, the Chinese river dolphin? I think the possibility of ZCters seeing it is quite low, since I believe it is kept in a facility not open to public, not to mention there aren't many Chinese Zcters here.
No-one for Golden Toad in Costa Rica?
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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It was kept, right ?
Unless it escaped my attention there haven't been any more captured and taken to that facility since the last captive one died.
In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there has been anything so far but annecdotal and unsubstaintiated reports of sightings in the wild since the species was declared extinct.
I was confused about this too, but I guess I didn't think much of it. I just assumed it was a simple error or typo.It was kept, right ?
Unless it escaped my attention there haven't been any more captured and taken to that facility since the last captive one died.
In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there has been anything so far but annecdotal and unsubstaintiated reports of sightings in the wild since the species was declared extinct.
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Yes, I think it is a typo, because the baiji in that facility has been dead for quite some time and I don't think that the chances of them still being extant in the wild / in the Yangtze are very high either.
Yeah, but It would be awesome to see one. Such a pretty species! I think the good thing is that it has some footage of it alive in the aquarium, which is pretty cool.
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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No, but a former colleague of mine knows and works with Dr Karen Lips who I believe was one of the last people to see the species alive in the wild prior to its extinction.
Thats pretty cool!
The one I definitely saw was Partula faba, at Bristol (I last saw them in 2012; they became extinct in 2016).
Partula turgida was also in the UK before becoming extinct in 1996, but I'm not sure I ever (knowingly) saw that one.
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Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Still significant that you saw Partula faba, very sad indeed.
Last I heard the general consensus is that it was always a natural hybrid of Black and Red, with inbreeding depression accentuating the differences. Never saw it myself.
This being the one I saw, too.
Yeah, Partula faba was actually the first Partula species discovered, and its such a shame that Partula Faba and many of its fellow genus members have gone extinct.
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Totally agree !
Does anyone who's seen them have photos of Partula faba? Those would be interesting to upload to the gallery.
I certainly have pictures of the tanks they were in - the Partula snails are always 'on show' via a large window into the biosecure breeding room containing a few dozen snail tanks, and naturally the stuff you can see right at the front by the public window consists of the (relatively!) more numerous species - the faba were right at the back, so it's a shot of the tanks with the snails visible rather than a photo of the snails as such. But I can post when I'm home from work if no-one's found anything in the meantime.
I certainly have pictures of the tanks they were in - the Partula snails are always 'on show' via a large window into the biosecure breeding room containing a few dozen snail tanks, and naturally the stuff you can see right at the front by the public window consists of the (relatively!) more numerous species - the faba were right at the back, so it's a shot of the tanks with the snails visible rather than a photo of the snails as such. But I can post when I'm home from work if no-one's found anything in the meantime.
Home for lunch in the end so dug them out:
Partula faba (now extinct) in the Partula Room at Bristol, 6th February 2012 - ZooChat
Partula faba (now extinct) in the Partula Room at Bristol, 6th February 2012 - ZooChat
Nice, I too saw Lonesome George in the Galapagos in 2012!