Extinct species you have seen

Prezwalkskis horse,Pere Davids deer,Guam kingfisher,Guam rail, and maybe some others that I cannot remember at the moment.
 
It is interesting when you consider how many species that are extinct in the wild we can see in zoos and some have bred very well in animal collections. Here is my list:
pere david´s deer - brookfield zoo, madrid zoo, barcelona zoo, berlin tierpark
scimitar horned oryx - chapultepec zoo (mex), leon zoo (mex), africam safari puebla (mex), barcelona zoo, berlin tierpark
barbary lion - madrid zoo
mhorr gazelle - tierpark berlin
micronesian kingfischer - houston zoo, brookfield zoo, lincoln park zoo
bali mynah - houston zoo, jardin des plantes, london zoo,
guam rail - lincoln park zoo, houston zoo
lear´s macaw - riozoo ( brasil)
seychelles tortoise - jardin des plantes
panama golden frog - houston zoo, national aquarium - baltimore, maryland zoo
The best museum to see mounted extinct species in my opinion is the grand galerie of evolution at the jardin des plantes in Paris.
 
Has anyone seen a Spix macaw?

:p

Hix
 
Hix said:
Has anyone seen a Spix macaw?

:p

Hix
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I really want to, but I doubt I ever will - gonna be hard timing it right for Loro Parque as they put juvenilles on-show I believe, so it's only dependant on what birds they have at the time.
 
I have seen Spix Macaws at Walsrode in the late 70's/early 80's before they were sent to Brazil. No special sign or advertisement back then, just another "stamp" in the collection which also had a large number of Carribean Amazon species. Some of them were captured illegally, which caused quite a scandal at the time. I am pretty sure the Spix were "not completely legal" as well. I have to point out that management back then and today are of course not related in any way !
I've seen a pretty big variety of Mexican desert pupfish behind the scenes in a basement at New York Aquarium in 1993. Some were considered extinct in the wild and I don't know if they were all maintained until today.
The Northern white rhino is a really tragic case (I saw them at San Diego and Dvur) and one can only hope that at least some hybrids might remain.
 
FBBird said:
Has anyone here seen a Pink-headed Duck? You would have to be quite old, but the last known examples died in the UK in the Second World War.
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I have seen Skins- Bombay(Mumbai) Natural History Museum. The males' heads and necks really were a bright cerise Pink. Females' browner. Body plumage was dark chocolate coloured.

I've also seen a/the well-known b/w photo of live birds(4?) at Foxwarren Park.
 
Saro said:
. I am pretty sure the Spix were "not completely legal" as well. I have to point out that management back then and today are of course not related in any way !
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I believe the male bird of the Walsrode pair came from a parrot keeper in Yorkshire, UK where it had lived for a number of years in the 1970's. Its original source was of course dubious and it was probably smuggled. This bird was slightly crippled. At least it was eventually donated to somewhere that had a 2nd bird of the other sex.

Were both of this pair relocated to Brazil? Did either of them breed? Unfortunately I've never seen Spix.:(
 
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The Cincinnati Zoo has a memorial building devoted to 2 extinct species. The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died at the zoo and was stuffed:

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There are some other stuffed passenger pigeons there:

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There is a great deal of information available in the adjacent photos in my photostream.

They also have a Carolina parakeet, Inca, stuffed but not mounted:

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Then at The Wilds, several miles from the Cincinnati Zoo, we have this:

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They all looked pretty happy to me.


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carlos77 said:
It is interesting when you consider how many species that are extinct in the wild we can see in zoos and some have bred very well in animal collections. Here is my list:
pere david´s deer - brookfield zoo, madrid zoo, barcelona zoo, berlin tierpark
scimitar horned oryx - chapultepec zoo (mex), leon zoo (mex), africam safari puebla (mex), barcelona zoo, berlin tierpark
barbary lion - madrid zoo
mhorr gazelle - tierpark berlin
micronesian kingfischer - houston zoo, brookfield zoo, lincoln park zoo
bali mynah - houston zoo, jardin des plantes, london zoo,
guam rail - lincoln park zoo, houston zoo
lear´s macaw - riozoo ( brasil)
seychelles tortoise - jardin des plantes
panama golden frog - houston zoo, national aquarium - baltimore, maryland zoo
The best museum to see mounted extinct species in my opinion is the grand galerie of evolution at the jardin des plantes in Paris.
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Lear Macaw is not a EW species, its is listed as EN.
 
Sao Paulo zoo has a group of Spix´s macaws which are not on exhibit. The birds relocated to Brazil are likely there. There also birds in a conservation center in Recife. Riozoo in Rio de janiero has lear´s macaws on exhibit. The animated movie put the spix´s macaws in rio not sao paulo, but it really did not matter to most people.
 
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I haven't seen a living specimen of a species that is now extinct, but there was an antique store in my college town that had a pink-headed duck mount for sale. I wish I could have bought it but I was a broke college student. I doubt they knew what it was.
 
The African safari tram driver at lowry park zoo said that the pair of these guys were extinct in the wild. It looks like some type of heartbeast to me. There is a breeding pair and they are kept with the waterbucks only accessible by the tram. If anyone can tell me what it is that would be great because it was hard to hear the guy on a crackling intercom.

http://www.zoochat.com/755/extinct-wild-lowry-park-zoo-tram-261999/

Prezwalkskis horse was also kept there when i was a child back in the 90s. Actually last week I took Dad to the zoo, he hadn't been since I was probably 6 or so, im 23 or 24 now.
 
carlos77 said:
Sao Paulo zoo has a group of Spix´s macaws which are not on exhibit. The birds relocated to Brazil are likely there. There also birds in a conservation center in Recife. Riozoo in Rio de janiero has lear´s macaws on exhibit. The animated movie put the spix´s macaws in rio not sao paulo, but it really did not matter to most people.
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The breeding center near Recife is closed since 2003, the only birds in Brazil are at Lymington Foundation and São Paulo Zoo.
 
jbnbsn99 said:
Bontebok. Used to be very rare, but not extinct in the wild.
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ok so the guy driving the tram was wrong. =P But since ive only been out to Cape May Zoo, Adventure Aquarium, Bushgardens, and Lowry park zoo its all I got. I finaly got to take the safari tram in the hopes of seeing scimitar horned onyx. I don't recall why I thought they were there.
 
In terms of Extinct, Extinct, no. But I have also seen the aforementioned Scimitar-Horned Oryx, Père David's Deer, and Socorro Dove. I've also seen the Partula snail Partula nodosa, the Lake Victoria cichlid Haplochromis ishmaeli, the Guam Kingfisher, and the Basilan Bleeding-Heart Pigeon (Gallicolumba crinigera bartletti), which are all also Extinct in the Wild. Also saw the Kihansi Spray Toad before Bronx started the reintroduction project so it was Extinct in the Wild then. I think there are wild populations now but the Formosan Sika Deer Bronx has are still listed as Extinct in the Wild, no? If you wanna count it I've also seen the Mexican Wolf.

May or may not be a few others I'm forgetting about.

~Thylo:cool:
 
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