Any of you saw an extinct species?

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Jurek7

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The history thread about animals kept once in London made me wonder.

Anybody of you saw (in a zoo or otherwise) live animal of a species which is now extinct?

I only know a birdwatcher who saw wild Guam Flycatcher on Guam, which was later wiped out by introduced predators.
 
I haven't seen an animal in the wild that is now extinct but I've seen Guam Rails, which are extinct in the wild, in an off display area of a zoo.
 
May be some of us have seen animal which will be extinct in the future. I think Northern white rhino from Dvur Kralove belongs to this category.
 
I've seen animals that have later gone extinct in the wild or in the US (proboscis monkeys, for example).
 
cockroach said:
May be some of us have seen animal which will be extinct in the future. I think Northern white rhino from Dvur Kralove belongs to this category.
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I've seen Northern Whites at San Diego WAP and Dvur Kralove, and I (sadly) fully expect them to become the first additions to my list of extinct animals I've seen. Possibly very soon.
 
I swear I saw Gastric Brooding Frogs somewhere. Niagara Falls' now defunct Reptile World? Toronto Zoo has a species of frog on the edge of extinction, the Panamanian golden frog.
 
I regret that I saw the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow on Discovery Island at Walt Disney World. In fact, I was involved with the effort to capture the remaining birds in the wild at Cedar Key Florida....about four males and two females if I recall correctly. We were unable to sustain a breeding population.
 
I'm pretty sure that some of the partula species I've seen are now extinct. When you're looking at a single individual you can be pretty sure that the end is nigh.
 
I think (correct me if I'm wrong) they were phased out because they were too delicate in regards to diet/temperature and didn't thrive. I could be thinking of a different species, though.
 
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