Guess the zoo

Frankfurt has been mentioned and no, it's not the right zoo.
Because it seems quite difficult I'll give a clue : the zoo I'm looking for was also the first European zoo which bred the Presquet's parrot during the 1950-ties. The single chick was raised to an age of 6 weeks but died then. In a second brood the chick lived only for 2 days.
 
During writing the last clues, a winner has been found ! Congrat. Tim May ! It was Wassenaar Zoo which kept 2 specimens of the Luzon Clouded rats during the second half of the 1970-ties. They were kept in one of the monkey-cages in the Crocodile-house and both died on Pseudo-TBC. One of them was called Captain Hood and because of the rarety of the species even the Natural History Museum at Leiden showed intrest in the specimens ( don't know however if the dead animals were given to the museum.. ).
On Zootierliste these animals are not mentioned.
 
vogelcommando said:
During writing the last clues, a winner has been found ! Congrat. Tim May ! It was Wassenaar Zoo which kept 2 specimens of the Luzon Clouded rats during the second half of the 1970-ties. They were kept in one of the monkey-cages in the Crocodile-house and both died on Pseudo-TBC. One of them was called Captain Hood and because of the rarety of the species even the Natural History Museum at Leiden showed intrest in the specimens ( don't know however if the dead animals were given to the museum.. ).
On Zootierliste these animals are not mentioned.
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I must admit that I didn’t know the answer to this question for certain.

However, given that ”vogelcommando” lives in the Netherlands I thought it likely that the answer was a Dutch zoo.

I‘ve visited the major Dutch zoos many times and was sure it wasn’t a zoo that I’d been to, otherwise I’d have probably known about the cloud rats, so I thought it highly probable that the answer was a Dutch zoo that I had not visited.

I never visited the now closed Wassenaar Zoo (something I regret very much) so, knowing it had a reputation for unusual animals, I suspected that was the likely answer but wasn't confident enough to post it. Then, when I saw the clue about the Pesquet’s parrot, I was sure. (I didn’t need the clue about the cheetahs and bonobos.)

Another question to follow later.
 
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London Zoo acquired a guenon in 1907; shortly afterwards, this individual became the type specimen of a newly described species.

What is the connection between this species of monkey and a privately-owned gorilla that was kept as a pet in Chelsea, London, between 1918 and 1921?
 
vogelcommando said:
Both collected by Hamlyn.
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Well done.

The monkey species was Hamlyn’s owl-faced monkey Cercopithecus hamlyni; named in honour of the (once) famous animal dealer John Daniel Hamlyn who deposited the type-specimen at London Zoo.

Hamlyn also acquired the gorilla, which he sold to the London departmental store Derry and Toms; the gorilla was called ‘John Daniel’ after Hamlyn. (I believe that this gorilla’s mounted skin is in the American Museum of Natural History, New York.)
 
OK, thanks Tim May !
I guess I've again quite a difficult one.
In 1987 Birdpark Walsrode -Germany - had a large importation from Hispaniola. Among them a small group of Black-crowned Palm tanagers ( Phaenicophilus palmarum ), the first import of this species in Europe.
Less known is that a few years later a second collection had 1 specimen of this species on display - it's even not mentioned on Zootierliste. Who know which other ( European ) collection this was ?
 
I wanted to post my immediate thought, but I don't know how to spell it! The bird place with the abbreviation NOP.

Papagaaienpark....?
 
You mean the Nederlandse Opvang Papegaaien at Veldhoven which is now closed and replaced by Veldhoven Zoo ? No, it's not NOP.
 
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