Best US Zoo Collection for this taxa

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What are the best (most complete) collections in the United States for specific groups of animals? I mean, which zoo has the widest variety of species within a certain group? By group I mean things like parrots (not birds), vipers (not snakes), deer (not hoofstock or mammals), etc.
 
Rattlesnakes - American International Rattlesnake Museum

Cats - Exotic Feline Breeding Compound

Bears - San Diego Zoo

Vipers - Dallas Zoo
 
Giraffids: San Diego Zoo/Safari Park. Between the zoo and the park they have the 3 kinds in North America (Masai, reticulated, Rothschild's) and okapis.

Elephants: San Diego Zoo/Safari Park (Breeding African herd at the park, mixed Asian-African herd at the zoo)

Rhinos: San Diego Zoo/Safari Park (Northern and southern white rhinos, black rhinos, Indian rhinos)
 
hyenas: deyoung family zoo. The zoo has a clan of spotted hyenas and a pair of striped hyenas that breed annually. The spotted hyenas have gotten to a point with their second litter were they raise their own. Also it is rumored that they have possibly gotten a aardwolf.
 
toucans, toucanets, aracaris - dallas world aquarium

crocodilians - st augustine alligator farm
 
Rare lemurs and other prosimians (not counting the Duke Lemur Center since it is not a zoo)-Grey bamboo, black-and-white ruffed, ring-tailed, crowned, and ruffed lemurs (as the zoo stated; no specific species). Other lemurs like aye-ayes and Coquerel's sifakas. Other prosimians like pottos, Garnett's galagos, and pygmy slow lorises.: Cincinnati
 
Lemurs - Henry Doorly Zoo

Apes - Gladys Porter Zoo

Waterfowl - Saint Louis Zoo

Bears - San Diego Zoo

Cockatoos - Wildlife World Zoo

Everything Else - San Diego Zoo
 
Cranes: San Antonio Zoo
Hummingbirds: Dallas World Aquarium
Rhinos: White Oak Plantation (aren't there black, white, Indian and Sumatran?)
Gibbons: Gladys Porter Zoo
Prosimians: Duke Primate Center (I would still consider this a zoo even if it's not generally open to the public)
Tanagers, honeycreepers etc: Dallas World Aquarium
 
siamang27 said:
Cranes: San Antonio Zoo
Hummingbirds: Dallas World Aquarium
Rhinos: White Oak Plantation (aren't there black, white, Indian and Sumatran?)
Gibbons: Gladys Porter Zoo
Prosimians: Duke Primate Center (I would still consider this a zoo even if it's not generally open to the public)
Tanagers, honeycreepers etc: Dallas World Aquarium
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Harpan is at LA now, leaving only 3 species at White Oak.
 
siamang27 said:
Cranes: San Antonio Zoo
Hummingbirds: Dallas World Aquarium
Rhinos: White Oak Plantation (aren't there black, white, Indian and Sumatran?)
Gibbons: Gladys Porter Zoo
Prosimians: Duke Primate Center (I would still consider this a zoo even if it's not generally open to the public)
Tanagers, honeycreepers etc: Dallas World Aquarium
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Not exactly a zoo but I would put the Gibbon Conservation Center for Gibbons.
 
That's true. I had forgotten about the Gibbon Conservation Center. I never found a list of all species held there, but I knew that GPZ had 5.
 
American_birds said:
Not a personal attack on you my friend, but the original poster puts hoofstock as too broad, wouldn't inverts fall under the same umbrella (99% of all known species)?
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True, true. Didn't think of that. I'll try to narrow it down a bit.
 
Beetles: Cincinnati (American Burying, Blue Death Feigning, Red-lined Darkling, Emerald, Flamboyant flower, Hercules, Magnificent Flower, Jade-Headed Buffalo, Sunburst diving, Taxi-Cab, Tin-Foil, and Yellow bellied)
 
Cincy: Monitors: Ackies dwarf, green tree, quince, crocodile, Savannah, white-throated, blue tree, black tree, Komodo dragon, and ornate.
 
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