Favorite Ungulate Species

The Horse Boy

The Horse Boy

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Good day gentlemen, because deer and antelope are one of my favorite types of zoo animals besides elephants, I thought I'd compile a list of my fav ungulates and see what any of the other user's favorites are. Almost all zoos keep some ungulates including giraffes zebras and certain types horned or antlered animals. This esp bc since I grew up in central texas, they have private hunting or breeding ranches for deer antelope zebras and exotic goats and sheep which actually do some conservation work.

  1. Grevy's Zebra
  2. Mountain Zebra
  3. Prezwalski's Wild Horse
  4. Black Rhinoceros
  5. White Rhinoceros
  6. Indian Rhino
  7. Malayan Tapir
  8. Baird's Tapir
  9. Nile Hippopotamus
  10. Pygmy Hippopotamus
  11. Warthog (Pumbaa)
  12. Red River Hog
  13. Babirusa
  14. Collared Peccary
  15. Reticulated Giraffe
  16. Masai Giraffe
  17. Okapi
  18. Fallow Deer
  19. Pere David's Deer
  20. Axis Deer
  21. Pudu
  22. Sika Deer
  23. Reindeer
  24. Caribou
  25. American Elk
  26. Red Deer
  27. Aoudad
  28. Bighorn Sheep
  29. Ibex
  30. Markhor
  31. Mouflon
  32. Dall's Sheep
  33. Takin
  34. Cape Buffalo
  35. Banteng
  36. Gaur
  37. Anoa
  38. Pronghorn
  39. Greater Kudu
  40. Bongo
  41. Nyala
  42. Eland
  43. Sitatunga
  44. Nilgai
  45. Blue Wildebeest
  46. Hartebeest
  47. Gemsbok
  48. Scimitar Horned Oryx
  49. Addax
  50. Sable Antelope
  51. Roan Antelope
  52. Waterbuck
  53. Lechwe
  54. Impala
  55. Blackbuck
  56. Speke's Gazelle
  57. Gerenuk
  58. Springbok
  59. Dik Dik
  60. Klipspringer
  61. Yellow Backed Duiker
 
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I am partial to the Equids and Wild Cattle.

Generally though I enjoy zoos with a varied and healthy hoofstock collection.

I used to live in the Texas Hill Country…so I get what you’re saying about all the exotics you can see there. I particularly love the Blackbuck.
 
Miles Kington said, "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

I've come up with my zoo version, "Knowledge is knowing a cetacean is an ungulate, wisdom is not putting it in a hoofstock yard."
 
I've always loved Greater Kudu as a boy because of the bulls impressively spiraled horns and the majestic grayish bown coats complete with paper thin white stripes on the sides of their backs. I've seen them in quite a few AZA zoos and Safari Parks, (Dallas Artis SanFran Fossil Rim Blijdorp and Whipsnade off the top of my head). Greater Kudu seem to be kept in AZA facilities in guess because they're easy to house and habituate to captivity easily.
 
Similar to @Jambi’s arrangement. Here before you is how I’ve listed many of my favorite ungulates (cetaceans included).


Odd-Toed Ungulates
  • Mountain Tapir
  • Mountain Zebra (specifically, Hartmann’s)
  • White Rhinoceros
  • Indian Rhinoceros

Even-Toed Ungulates; to name a few, I favor a lot of artiodactyls beyond the ones below :D
  • Okapi
  • Masai Giraffe
  • Giant Eland
  • Bongo
  • Lowland Anoa
  • Gaur
  • Common Hippopotamus
  • North Sulawesi Babirusa

Cetaceans
  • Orca
  • Northern Right Whale
  • Beluga
  • Pacific White-Sided Dolphin
  • Dall’s Porpoise
 
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