Sounds fair. You mentioning the atlas brown bears reminded me of Mexican grizzlies. Caucasian moose would be another one, as would Large Palau, Mascarene, dusky, and Guam flying foxes. Madagascan Pygmy hippos, sea minis, Japanese seal lions, Caribbean monk seals, Burmeister’s fox, Queen of Sheba’s gazelle (AKA Yemen gazelle), Schomburgk’s deer, red gazelle, and any of the Antillean monkey species. I was looking at a list of recently extinct mammals, and good gracious, there are a lot!!! Most are rodents and marsupials.
Forget the regular petting zoos with goats and sheep, this would be the ultimate interactive exhibit!!!! Don't forget to include Cygnus falconeri though too!
so not so prehistoric!Guam’s probably are still alive but probably not any in captivity so that counts, The other guy if you are referring to Huias themselves then they are not gone but some are.
The fact that it’s the only mammoth with a proper common name makes me along with the fact that it looks prehistoric makes me consider it prehistoric. I do know that they went extinct in alaska by the time the pyramids were built.Of course, the mammoth was around until well after the pyramids were built
?? Do you mean NZ wattlebirds as a family?? Because huias only refer to a singular extinct species. Also you title it recently extinct species then set arbitrary boundaries completely on your own accord of what counts or not??
I guess someone forgot mammals called Huias exist.
if you mean "recognisable animal, but hairier" then this would make the Sumatran Rhinoceros, Woolly Armadillo and half the population of Newcastle Upon Tyne prehistoric!
They’re listed as extinct by IUCN. Koupreys as they are probably extinct, though not listed. Golden frogs.
I somehow doubt that most visitors would appreciate any direct unprotected interaction with giant swans and dwarf elephants, let alone survive it unharmed.
I think you're getting confused with hutias, some of which still survive. I have only seen Cuban and Jamaican hutias in captivity and I'd like to see more species.
Passenger Pigeons bred quite readily in captivity. In England the Earl of Derby was breeding them so successfully that he used to release them. When he died there were seventy Passenger Pigeons in his aviaries.
IDK about that, at least if you’re talking about American zoos. Generally brown bears are not used in Eurasian-themed areas over here, and obviously they would not fit with the savanna/rainforest theme of most African areas.
Maybe not, but with say, sticking some scimitar-horned oryx in a savanna exhibit with giraffes, zebras, etc, you’re still mixing them with other hot-climate animals even if they don’t share the same biome. Considering how Atlas bears come from not only a different biome but one with an enormous temperature difference, that being the snowy Atlas Mountains, I feel the distinction is much greater there. We can agree to disagree on this, but personally I don’t think it would be very common for American zoos to display grizzlies as part of savanna and rainforest-themed exhibits, especially seeing as they’re an indigenous species over here and are often star attractions of North-American themed areas.
