Guess the species? #5

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Chlidonias said:
correct on all counts. Well done. That didn't take as long as I expected!
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Well, most of them you have mentioned as seeing on your recent Auckland trip, so that was what I was going off mainly, rather than actually knowing what each species was. The shag threw me a bit though.

Will post some photos shortly.
 
zooboy28 said:
Well, most of them you have mentioned as seeing on your recent Auckland trip, so that was what I was going off mainly, rather than actually knowing what each species was. The shag threw me a bit though.
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I thought that might have been the case. I was expecting the dotterel and shearwater to cause some trouble, and also the little pied shag on account of it being a juvenile and hence not being pied.
 
Ok, here are five poor-quality photos of various species, double points for correctly guessing the collection they were photographed in too!
 

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1) I'm not sure I would have got the black lemur (tricky angle!) but as for the collection it is in, there's a NZ flax right next to it so I'd guess England, and it looks like an English sort of enclosure, so I say Cotswold because I know you've been there (and I don't reckon it looks like a London, Chester or Edinburgh sort of cage).

5) I think that must be a Podocnemis, so I'm going to say P. unifilis. Probably in a German zoo. I'll guess Berlin.
 
I'll say Plzen Zoo for the tree shrew, mainly because that is such a small-mammally place (I tried googling some pictures to see what the Plzen cage would look like but I couldn't really find anything too specific, so I'll just guess it).

The others I don't know, although I figure the motmot must be in Germany or maybe Prague. I don't even know what the python is.
 
Chlidonias said:
1) I'm not sure I would have got the black lemur (tricky angle!) but as for the collection it is in, there's a NZ flax right next to it so I'd guess England, and it looks like an English sort of enclosure, so I say Cotswold because I know you've been there (and I don't reckon it looks like a London, Chester or Edinburgh sort of cage).

5) I think that must be a Podocnemis, so I'm going to say P. unifilis. Probably in a German zoo. I'll guess Berlin.
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I'll say Plzen Zoo for the tree shrew, mainly because that is such a small-mammally place (I tried googling some pictures to see what the Plzen cage would look like but I couldn't really find anything too specific, so I'll just guess it).

The others I don't know, although I figure the motmot must be in Germany or maybe Prague. I don't even know what the python is.
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Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle is correct, as are Cotswold and Plzen, well done. :D

Can anyone get species #2?
 
Chlidonias said:
#2 Papuan python (Apodora papuana)
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Chlidonias said:
...at Tropicario in Helsinki
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Correct! How did you get that? :D

So to recap:
1. Black Lemur, Cotswold
2. Papuan Python, Tropicario
3. Northern Treeshrew, Plzen
4. Blue-Crowned Motmot, Zurich
5. Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle, Helsinki

So Beardsley Zoo Fan got 3 species, Chlidonias got 2 species and 3 collections. Either can go first, maybe whoever posts first/wants to?
 
I will let BeardsleyZooFan go if he wants. I only have photos from the Auckland/Samoa trip on this computer.

As for the python, I knew it had to be an Australasian species because it didn't "look" Asian or African. The only mono-coloured species I could think of was olive python, which it wasn't, but it turns out that Papuan pythons are also called Papuan olive pythons so I sort of found it by accident. I had a look on Zootierliste to see which zoos in Europe had them (not many!) and Tropicario was the only one you'd been to.

And I see from your post that the turtle was also at Tropicario (I looked for that one on Zootierliste as well but too many zoos had them for me to make more than a vague guess)
 
Chlidonias said:
I will let BeardsleyZooFan go if he wants. I only have photos from the Auckland/Samoa trip on this computer.

As for the python, I knew it had to be an Australasian species because it didn't "look" Asian or African. The only mono-coloured species I could think of was olive python, which it wasn't, but it turns out that Papuan pythons are also called Papuan olive pythons so I sort of found it by accident. I had a look on Zootierliste to see which zoos in Europe had them (not many!) and Tropicario was the only one you'd been to.

And I see from your post that the turtle was also at Tropicario (I looked for that one on Zootierliste as well but too many zoos had them for me to make more than a vague guess)
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Fair enough, look forward to BZF's photos.

The turtle wasn't actually at Tropicario, but rather Korkeasaari, which I call Helsinki Zoo in my photo files. Not sure if thats really an appropriate name or not.
 
Thank you Chlidonias. Here's a few poor-quality photos of various species.
These shouldn't be too hard.
 

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