Are there any animals NOT found in ANY zoo?

Dassie rat said:
"You care so much about the zoo, you may as well live there." He responds by offering himself as an exhibit of the only major species that the zoo doesn't show.
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Reminds me of a particularly interesting advertisement I saw while on Youtube... it was about a man (forgot his name) who was going to live in a store window display for like a month or something. Did anyone else see that??

Honestly, if I ever volunteered to live in a zoo exhibit, I know for a fact that I'd act a little more different than the "normal" human, just to entertain observers. Maybe walk on all fours, grunt at rustlings in the exhibit's bushes for no apparent reason, etc...

Because, let's be real here, if an average human was put on exhibit in an enclosure simulating a common household (which, first of all would NEVER happen... wait, let's not say never just yet... ;) Who knows what us crazy humans will do in the future?), it wouldn't be very interesting, IMO. The most used enrichment items would probably be the recliner and the remote control. :D
 
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AnaheimZoo said:
Reminds me of a particularly interesting advertisement I saw while on Youtube... it was about a man (forgot his name) who was going to live in a store window display for like a month or something. Did anyone else see that??

Honestly, if I ever volunteered to live in a zoo exhibit, I know for a fact that I'd act a little more different than the "normal" human, just to entertain observers. Maybe walk on all fours, grunt at rustlings in the exhibit's bushes for no apparent reason, etc...

Because, let's be real here, if an average human was put on exhibit in an enclosure simulating a common household (which, first of all would NEVER happen... wait, let's not say never just yet... ;) Who knows what us crazy humans will do in the future?), it wouldn't be very interesting, IMO. The most used enrichment items would probably be the recliner and the remote control. :D
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Don't you guys get the TV reality show "Big Brother" in America?
 
I would guess it would vary from zoo to zoo, but I imagine they go home at night.

I could be wrong though.

:p

Hix
 
Im sad to say that we do get it in the US. A bunch of idiots basically have to live together, and they never get along. I will suggest that, unless you enjoy stupidity, never watching it.
 
KCZooFan said:
Im sad to say that we do get it in the US. A bunch of idiots basically have to live together, and they never get along. I will suggest that, unless you enjoy stupidity, never watching it.
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So basically they live in a house that is riddled with cameras. We, the audience, get to watch them go about their daily lives. So in a way, the humans are put on 'display' in an 'enclosure'.

Anyway, I was watching a documentary over the weekend called "Mutant Planet: New Zealand", and it got me thinking: are there any kakapos or erect-crested penguins in zoos? I am not seeing anything on ISIS.
 
nanoboy said:
So basically they live in a house that is riddled with cameras. We, the audience, get to watch them go about their daily lives. So in a way, the humans are put on 'display' in an 'enclosure'.

Anyway, I was watching a documentary over the weekend called "Mutant Planet: New Zealand", and it got me thinking: are there any kakapos or erect-crested penguins in zoos? I am not seeing anything on ISIS.
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I'm pretty certain that there are no kakapo on display now, I know the NZ zoos have held and still do hold injured birds from time to time. Other than that I've only heard of London zoo holding them on a couple of seperate occasions. Be interesting to know if any other zoos outside of New Zealand have held them though!
 
There are plenty of threads about the kakapos in the New Zealand Forums, and Sirocco is going on display later this month.

:p

Hix
 
Are there currently any Amazonian Umbrellabirds in captivity? ISIS lists one in Dallas World Aquarium, but none of us here seem to entirely trust ISIS, now, do we? ;)

Can anyone confirm this? And have they been kept (and/or bred) successfully? I think they'd be a real interesting bird to have in a zoo!
 
Anaheim Zoo. zootierliste says that the following European zoos have long-wattled umbrella birds (Cephalopterus penduliger): Veldhoven (Netherlands) and Barcelona and Maspalomas (Spain).

I saw this species at the Blijdorp Zoo, Rotterdam, in 1982 and I agree with Anaheim Zoo that it is a spectacular species. I remember my first visit to the Riviera Hall with fondness. There were so many interesting species, including chambered nautilus, cock-of-the-rock, four species of birds of paradise and a white-necked rock fowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus). The Riviera Hall had a better collection than the complete colection of many zoos I've visited and only occupied a small percentage of the zoo. It still has a good collection, but my best visit was my first one.
 
Shirokuma said:
Off the top of my head, some large animals include: Ethiopian wolf, Javan rhinoceros, saola, mountain nyala, hirola ( I think )...
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hirola they used to have at the gladys porter zoo in Brownsville,TX
javan rhino, like the hirola none in captivity currently, but javan rhinos used to be at the london zoo back in the 1880s
saola were or maybe there still are some in captivity but only in there home range as far as i am aware
mountain nyala for some reason i remember them at one of the ZSSD parks but i could be wrong
as for ethiopian wolves ive never heard of them ever being in captivity
 
ungulate nerd said:
javan rhino, like the hirola none in captivity currently, but javan rhinos used to be at the london zoo back in the 1880s
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London Zoo’s Javan rhino arrived in 1874 and died in 1885
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Adelaide Zoo had a Javan rhinoceros between 1886 and 1907; it was exhibited as an Indian rhinoceros during its lifetime; it wasn’t confirmed as a Javan rhino until it was examined in the Adelaide Museum years after its death.

ungulate nerd said:
mountain nyala for some reason i remember them at one of the ZSSD parks but i could be wrong
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Berlin Zoo acquired mountain nyala in the 1930s; they were killed by an air-raid during the Second World War; none have been exhibited in zoos since then.
 
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saola
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locally it has been kept but it certainly can't be called a success. First in 1996 in Lak Xao Zoo (now closed, rumoured to have had individuals before that too) in Laos that survived a few weeks and a second in 2010 that never even reaches a zoo before it died so I'm not sure it counts. Most of the photos on this page are of the saola kept in 1996. Especially since the 2010 capture the local governments have taken a very strong stance on the matter and I doubt we will ever see one in a zoo again.
 
Here ate some animals not in zoos that I could come up with, somebody correct me If I am wrong about some of these species and if any one as any others I'd love to hear them


Water chevrotain
Puku
Pygmy hog
African golden cat
Marbled cat
Tibetan antelope
Tibetan gazelle
Kouprey
Amazon manatee
Indian wild ass
Mongolian wild ass
Iberian lynx
Asiatic cheetah
Bohor reedbuck
Southern reedbuck
Himalayan serow
Golden babirusa
Togian babirusa
Vietnamese warty pig
Celebes warty pig
Javan warty pig
Mindoro warty pig
Flores warty pig
Philippine warty pig
Cross river gorilla
Mountain gorilla
Feas muntjac
Bornean yellow muntjac
Gongshan muntjac
Sumatran muntjac
Giant muntjac
Ruwenzori duiker
Abbotts duiker
Aders duiker
Peters duiker
Brookes duiker
Black fronted duiker
White bellied duiker
Weyns duiker
Walters duiker
Ogilbys duiker
Harveys duiker
Corsican red deer
Kashmir stag
Manchurian wapiti
Sichuan wapiti
Northern pudu
Merida brocket
Dwarf brocket
Pygmy brocket
Small red brocket
Central american red brocket
Little red brocket
Yucatan red brocket
Amazonian red brocket
Taruca
Chilean huemal
Pu hoat muntjac
Turong son muntjac
Indian spotted chevrotain
Sri lankan spotted chevrotain
Yellow striped chevrotain
Philippine mouse deer
Vietnamese mouse deer
Williamsons mouse deer
Alpine musk deer
Dwarf musk deer
Black musk deer
Anhui musk deer
Kashmir musk deer
White bellied musk deer
Hainan sambar
South china sambar
Walia ibex
Dwarf blue sheep
Pyrenean chamois
Red serow
Chinese serow
Astor markhor
Kabul markhor
Ladakh urial
Bukhara urial
Blanford urial
Chiltan ibex
Sindh ibex
Turkmen wild goat
Audobons bighorn sheep
Sierra nevada bighorn sheep

Even seeing one of these creatures in real life I would salivate and probably pass out with extreme joy
 
@ungulate nerd

It looks like you are listing a lot of subspecies, which I think is being a bit nitpicky. If the species exists (even without certain subspecies) that counts in my book.

Amazon Manatee - I thought Dallas World Aquarium had those???
Marbled Cat - A breeding center in UAE has them and possibly some native wildlife rescue centers in Laos and Thailand.
African Golden Cat - One pair allegedly held in a very private (and undisclosed) breeding center in South Africa.
Iberian Lynx - Several in Spanish breeding centers (including one zoo), but none on public display.
 
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