Maguari in Florida (and Georgia)

@ThylacineAlive: Afaik, the zebras had difficulties to manage with their exhibit (Can't remember the exact reason, but if I remember correctly, it was published in one of the DAK-related sites and/or forums), so the DAK-Management decided to end the try after a few weeks/months.

(If your question was based because of grammatical errors for my part: Sorry for that, my own language is German).
 
zoomaniac said:
@ThylacineAlive: Afaik, the zebras had difficulties to manage with their exhibit (Can't remember the exact reason, but if I remember correctly, it was published in one of the DAK-related sites and/or forums), so the DAK-Management decided to end the try after a few weeks/months.

(If your question was based because of grammatical errors for my part: Sorry for that, my own language is German).
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Oh, hadn't heard of that, interesting. Has anything replaced the zebras?

~Thylo:cool:
 
Wild list, Part II - Fishes and Invertebrates (formatting dodgy for same reasons as previously!):

Fishes
Sergeant Major Abudefduf saxatilis
Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus
Mayan Cichlid Cichlasoma urophthalmus
Sheepshead Minnow Cyprinodon variegatus
Southern Stingray Dasyatis americana
Mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki
Pinfish Lagodon rhomboides
Florida Gar Lepisosteus platyrhincus
Grey Snapper Lutjanus griseus
Striped Mullet Mugil cephalus
Atlantic Needlefish Strongylura marina

Crustaceans
Mangrove Tree Crab Aratus pisonii
Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus
Fiddler Crab Uca pugilator
Rock Slater Ligia sp.?

Arachnids
Orb-weaver Argiope sp.
Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans

Myriapods
Banded Millipede Narceus sp.

Insects - Lepidoptera
Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae
White Peacock Anartia jatrophae
Southern Skipperling Copaeodes minima
Three-spotted Skipper Cymaenes tripunctus
Soldier Danaus eresimus
Queen Danaus gilippus
Barred Sulphur Eurema daira
Zebra Longwing Heliconius charitonius
Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus
Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus
Common Buckeye Junonia coenia
Mangrove Buckeye Junonia evarete
Cassius Blue Leptotes cassius
Viceroy Limenitis archippus
Red-spotted Purple Limenitis arthemis
Ruddy Daggerwing Marpesia petreus
Twin-spot Skipper Oligoria maculata
Giant Swallowtail Papilio cresphontes
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucus
Palamedes Swallowtail Papilio palamedes
Mangrove Skipper Phocides pigmalion
Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae
Phaon Crescent Phyciodes phaon
Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
Whirlabout Polites vibex
Tropical Chequered Skipper Pyrgus oileus
Little Yellow Pyrisitia lisa
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak Strymon istapa
Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus

Insects - Other
Great Pondhawk Erythemis vesiculosa
Hallowe'en Pennant Celithemis eponina
Black-and-Yellow Mud Dauber Sceliphron caementarium
Paper Wasp Polistes sp.
American Bumblebee Bombus pennsylvanicus
Marbled Grasshopper Spharagemon marmorata
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper Romalea microptera
American Cockroach Periplanata americana


Quite a few inverts (as ever!) had to go unidentified, though I'm still working on IDs for a few more Odonata so may have a couple of additions there.
 
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OK folks, I have a first draft of the zoo species lists. I took full notes of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and cartilaginous fishes. An X means a species seen, an L means a species labelled (or otherwise indicated present) but not seen (it may or may not still be there - a lot of the 'L's are big-walk-through-aviary birds where signage can get out-of-date easily).

The final version will have a few notes of explanation of certain oddities, but for the moment feel free to have a look and offer any opinions/corrections.

Taxonomically, mammals is a mish-mash as I haven't settled on a single source yet, birds from IOC World Bird List, reptiles from THE REPTILE DATABASE, amphibians from AmphibiaWeb and cartilaginous fishes from Search FishBase . Species sequence within families (and of families themselves or some groups) are alphabetic for simplicity.

I do have a few specific questions, if anyone knows...

Miami's tigers - do they only have Malayan now or are there still others?

Also, can anyone confirm if any of the following are any particular subspecies?

- Common Seal (Sea World, Seaquarium, Georgia Aquarium)
- Rockhopper Penguin (Sea World)
- Tufted Deer (Lowry Park)
- Sable Antelope (Miami, Disney)
- Geoffroy's Spider Monkey (Miami - look like vellerosus to me but unlabelled)

EDIT: just occured to me it'd be easier to read with gridlines, will fix for later versions!

Cheers, and enjoy! All thoughts welcome! :)
 

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59 of the mammal taxa you saw are ones I have never seen before ;)
 
TeaLovingDave said:
59 of the mammal taxa you saw are ones I have never seen before ;)
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Then you should do the same trip - a 30-ish% rate of new mammal taxa has got to be worth it!

Although if you did and you saw the Black Duiker I would never talk to you again, moderator or no! :D


(EDIT: did you include the extra couple of taxa on the wild list above? ;) )

Gulo gulo said:
Nice Zoo Lists, Maguari!
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Thanks! The basic format was robmv's - I shamelessly ripped it off!
 
Maguari said:
Although if you did and you saw the Black Duiker I would never talk to you again, moderator or no! :D


(EDIT: did you include the extra couple of taxa on the wild list above? ;) )
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It does include the wild list, yes. And considering the vast array of lovely things you have seen which I am unlikely ever to see, it would be unfairly petty to take my theoretical seeing of Black Duiker so hard ;)
 
TeaLovingDave said:
It does include the wild list, yes. And considering the vast array of lovely things you have seen which I am unlikely ever to see, it would be unfairly petty to take my theoretical seeing of Black Duiker so hard ;)
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Well, I never thought I'd see half the things I have done. You never know. :)



Also, I just noticed the totals for each collection at the top of page 1 are hopelessly wrong. Will correct them for next version.
 
Maguari said:
Well, I never thought I'd see half the things I have done. You never know. :)
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Indeed - that said, your somewhat more southerly location - and thus ability to reach more zoos - and the 3 years or so you have on me in terms of age have permitted you to see things even in the UK that are unlikely ever to return - for instance zorilla :p
 
For the seal I would say it could either be Pacific or Atlantic. Usually the seals over here are of the Atlantic ssp but we do get seals of the Pacific ssp here and there.

I think we only have Southern Rockhopper (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome) over here.

Lowry Park has E. c. cephalophus, like all zoos have over here with the species. So yes, it's a new tick for you.

Disney has the nominate ssp.

You are correct with the spider monkey.

This might help you for the time being: Global Species : Institutions, Zoos, etc.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Thanks Thylo - will do some digging. Are there no michianus at all in the US then? I was sure I'd seen both in photos on here, which is why I wasn't sure.
 
Maguari said:
Thanks Thylo - will do some digging. Are there no michianus at all in the US then? I was sure I'd seen both in photos on here, which is why I wasn't sure.
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No problem:)

As far as I know, there are no michianus in AZA zoos, at least.

~Thylo:cool:
 
ThylacineAlive said:
For the seal I would say it could either be Pacific or Atlantic. Usually the seals over here are of the Atlantic ssp but we do get seals of the Pacific ssp here and there.

I think we only have Southern Rockhopper (Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome) over here.

Lowry Park has E. c. cephalophus, like all zoos have over here with the species. So yes, it's a new tick for you.

Disney has the nominate ssp.

You are correct with the spider monkey.

This might help you for the time being: Global Species : Institutions, Zoos, etc.

~Thylo:cool:
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You are incorrect regarding the rockhoppers, there are more than one subspecies present.
 
Maguari said:
I have a first draft of the zoo species lists. I took full notes of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and cartilaginous fishes.
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Interesting list, evidently a great trip. Two minor issues among the last group:
- The Manta birostris at Georgia is the likely undescribed form referred to as "Manta sp. cf. birostris" in the taxonomic review of mantas by Marshall et al. 2009.
- Pristis microdon was recently shown to be a junior synonym of Pristis pristis (Faria et al. 2013). Also a minor typo in the species name of small-toothed sawfish: pectinosa vs. pectinata.
 
Wow, this thread had fallen a long way down.

Anyway, finally got around to a fixed/updated version of the zoo list, which is attached on the off-chance anyone is interested (as well as various typos and taxonomic fixes, the totals and subtotals have been fixed as well). 'X' is seen, 'L' is labelled but not seen. :)

I'm badly behind on photo uploading but will be trying to catch up over the next couple of weeks - my deeper thoughts on the later zoos will come with the photos so stay tuned!
 

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