A private exhibitor known as SafARI TAILS keeps sugar gliders, bennet wallaby, red kangaroo, eastern (?) grey kangaroo, grey four-eyed opossum, wooly opossum (I can't ID specific species), and common opossum (idk if they are still alive.)
Animal Adventures no longer has agile wallaby.I believe an update is in order for this thread.
Derby’s Wooly Opossum (1 Holder)
The Zoo at Forest Park
Bare-Tailed Wooly Opossum (1 Holder)
Shell Factory Nature Park
Wooly Opossum (species unknown)(1 Holder)
Safari Tails
Gray Four-Eyed Opossum (1 Holder)
Safari Tails
Gray Short-Tailed Opossum (5-10 Holders)
Dallas Zoo?
El Paso Zoo?
Fort Worth Zoo?
Houston Zoo?
Imagination Station Science Museum
Kingdom Zoo?
Lupa Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Miller Park Zoo
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Yapok (1 holder)
Dallas World Aquarium
Common Opposum (1 Holder?)
Safari Tails?
Virginia Opossum (46 holders)
Alexandria Zoo
Animal Gardens Petting Zoo
Animal Haven Zoo
Armadillo Zoo
Austin Nature Center
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
Birmingham Zoo
Blandford Nature Center
Boonshoft Museum
Brevard Zoo
Buttonwood Park Zoo
California Living Museum
Cameron Park Zoo
Dallas Zoo
Discovery Place Nature
Fort Worth Zoo
Fossil Rim
Frank Buck Zoo
East Texas Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Great Lakes Aquarium
Houston Zoo
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Louisville Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Orange County Zoo
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary
Potawatomi Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Safari Lake Geneva
Santa Barbara Zoo
SeaWorld San Antonio
Shalom Wildlife Zoo
Southwick’s Zoo
Sunset Zoo
Tennessee Aquarium
Texas Zoo
The Ecotarium
Wild Wonders Wildlife Park
Zoo Atlanta
Tasmanian Devil (6 Holders)
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Saint Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Toledo Zoo & Aquarium
Queensland Koala (9 holders)
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Palm Beach Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
San Diego Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park
Common Wombat (1 Holder)
San Diego Zoo
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (5 Holders)
Brookfield Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Memphis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus (1 holder)
Memphis Zoo
New Guinea Ground Cuscus (2 Holders)
Bush Gardens Tampa
San Diego Zoo
Common Ringtail Possum (2 Holders)
Aquarium of the Pacific
San Diego Zoo
Sugar Glider (17 Holders)
BREC Baton Rouge Zoo
Cameron Park Zoo
Charles Paddock Zoo
East Texas Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Henry Vilas Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Lupa Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Safari Tails
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Special Memories Zoo
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Zoo Boise
Feathertail Glider (3 Holders)
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Staten Island Zoo
Brush-Tailed Bettong (14 Holders)
Birmingham Zoo
Capron Park Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Gladys Porter Zoo
Lake Superior Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Montgomery Zoo
Oak Creek
Potawatomi Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Long-Nosed Potoroo (1 Holder)
Gladys Porter Zoo
Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo (17 Holders)
Bronx Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Dallas World Aquarium
Detroit Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Kansas City Zoo
Lincoln Children’s Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo & Gardens
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
Santa Fe Teaching Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Woodland Park Zoo
Zoo Miami
Agile Wallaby (6 Holders)
Animal Adventures
Emberwood Farm
Emerald Coast Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Odessa Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
Tamar Wallaby (14 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Buffalo Zoo
Capital of Texas Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Greensboro Science Center
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Miller Park Zoo
Oklahoma City Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium
Sedgwick County Zoo
Tula Zoo
Parma Wallaby (8 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Happy Hollow Zoo
Kansas City Zoo
Peoria Zoo
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Sunset Zoo
Swamp Wallaby (7 Holders)
Brevard Zoo
Cougar Mountain Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park
Heritage Park Zoo
North Georgia Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
Bennet’s Red-Necked Wallaby (55 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Alexandria Zoo
Animal Gardens Petting Zoo
Animal Adventures
Armadillo Zoo
Austin Zoo
Binder Park Zoo
Blank Park Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Buffalo Zoo
Busch Gardens Tampa
Cape May County Zoo
Capital of Texas Zoo
Charles Paddock Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Clay Center Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Erie Zoo
Franklin Drive-Through Safari
Gladys Porter Zoo
Grant’s Farm
Idaho Falls Zoo
John Ball Zoo
Lake Superior Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lost Creek Safari
Louisville Zoo
Luray Zoo
Oglebay's Good Zoo
Peoria Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Safari North Wildlife Park
Safari Tails
Salisbury Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
SeaWorld San Antonio
Smithsonian National Zoo
Southwick’s Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Sunset Zoo
Tregembo Animal Park
Trevor Zoo
Tulsa Zoo
Turtle Back Zoo
Utica Zoo
Virginia Zoo
Washington Park Zoo
Common Wallaroo (16 Holders)
Arbuckle Wilderness
Binder Park Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Creation Kingdom Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History
Heard Museum
Louisville Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Miller Park Zoo
Oakland Zoo
Racine Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
TGR Exotics Wildlife Park
Woodland Park Zoo
Red Kangaroo (83 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Animal Adventures
Animal Haven Zoo
Animal World
Arbuckle Wilderness
Armadillo Zoo
Austin Aquarium
Austin Zoo
Barn Hill Preserve
Bayou Wildlife Park
Bear Den Zoo
Binder Park Zoo
Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park
Bramble Park Zoo
BREC Baton Rouge Zoo
Brevard Zoo
Brights Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Busch Gardens Tampa
Capron Park Zoo
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo
Chahinkapa Zoo
Cherokee Drive-Through Safari
Cincinnati Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Denver Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Dickerson Park Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Doc’s Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Frank Buck Zoo
Franklin Drive-Through Safari
Franklin Park Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Grant’s Farm
Indian Creek Zoo
It's A Zoo Life
Jo-Don Farms
Kansas City Zoo
Lake Superior Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lost Creek Safari
Memphis Zoo?
Monterey Zoo
My Happy Place
Nashville Zoo
Natural Bridge Zoo
Oglebay's Good Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Pine Grove Zoo
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Potter Park Zoo
Pueblo Zoo
Racine Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Roscommon Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
Safari North Wildlife Park
Safari Tails
Saint Louis Zoo
San Antonio Aquarium
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Southwick’s Zoo
Space Farms Zoo & Museum
Staten Island Zoo
Summerfield Zoo
Timbavati Wildlife Park
Tulsa Zoo
Virginia Safari Park
Waccatee Zoo
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
Zoo Atlanta
Zootastic Park
Western Gray Kangaroo (9 Holders)
Brookfield Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Dallas Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Oglebay's Good Zoo
Potter Park Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Eastern Gray Kangaroo (11 Holders)
Busch Gardens Tampa
Erie Zoo
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History
Potawatomi Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Safari Tails
Saginaw Children’s Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Turtle Back Zoo
Virginia Zoo
Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby (4 Holders)
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Palm Beach Zoo
Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park
I’ve edited itAnimal Adventures no longer has agile wallaby.
Roger Williams hasn't held Grey kangaroos for a few years now.
The Lowry Park Former Species thread does not mention the Rock Wallabies, so I would assume they are somewhere behind the Scenes. I’ve edited the rest of the post.Just a heads up @Dhole dude, here are a few things regarding the current status of some (but not all) of the zoos that hold macropods in Florida, as seen below.
First, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park no longer has Swamp Wallaby, and they have long been replaced with Tamar Wallabies.
Second, I have already been more than surprised that Lowry Park still has Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby. Mainly because the last time that I visited the place, they were off-display, which made me think of the impression that the zoo no longer kept the species, but thankfully, I am just more than glad that they are still around to this day.
Third, as for Jacksonville. I do believe that they no longer have any Tamar Wallabies on display as well. But in this case, I will probably head out to the zoo just to make sure if they are still there (just in case if it was similar to the Lowry Park situation).
Finally, I have not visited the kangaroo/wallaby section of Busch Gardens Tampa in quite some time, but I do believe that the wallaroos, kangaroos, wallabies, that you listed above might still be around, but I will probably have to check out and visit the place just to make sure if that statement is true or not.
I believe an update is in order for this thread.
Derby’s Wooly Opossum (1 Holder)
The Zoo at Forest Park
Bare-Tailed Wooly Opossum (1 Holder)
Shell Factory Nature Park
Wooly Opossum (species unknown)(1 Holder)
Safari Tails
Gray Four-Eyed Opossum (1 Holder)
Safari Tails
Gray Short-Tailed Opossum (5-10 Holders)
Dallas Zoo?
El Paso Zoo?
Fort Worth Zoo?
Houston Zoo?
Imagination Station Science Museum
Kingdom Zoo?
Lupa Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Miller Park Zoo
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Yapok (1 holder)
Dallas World Aquarium
Common Opposum (1 Holder?)
Safari Tails?
Virginia Opossum (46 holders)
Alexandria Zoo
Animal Gardens Petting Zoo
Animal Haven Zoo
Armadillo Zoo
Austin Nature Center
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
Birmingham Zoo
Blandford Nature Center
Boonshoft Museum
Brevard Zoo
Buttonwood Park Zoo
California Living Museum
Cameron Park Zoo
Dallas Zoo
Discovery Place Nature
Fort Worth Zoo
Fossil Rim
Frank Buck Zoo
East Texas Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Great Lakes Aquarium
Houston Zoo
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Louisville Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Orange County Zoo
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary
Potawatomi Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Safari Lake Geneva
Santa Barbara Zoo
SeaWorld San Antonio
Shalom Wildlife Zoo
Southwick’s Zoo
Sunset Zoo
Tennessee Aquarium
Texas Zoo
The Ecotarium
Wild Wonders Wildlife Park
Zoo Atlanta
Tasmanian Devil (6 Holders)
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Saint Louis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Toledo Zoo & Aquarium
Queensland Koala (9 holders)
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Palm Beach Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
San Diego Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park
Common Wombat (1 Holder)
San Diego Zoo
Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (5 Holders)
Brookfield Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Memphis Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus (1 holder)
Memphis Zoo
New Guinea Ground Cuscus (2 Holders)
Bush Gardens Tampa
San Diego Zoo
Common Ringtail Possum (2 Holders)
Aquarium of the Pacific
San Diego Zoo
Sugar Glider (17 Holders)
BREC Baton Rouge Zoo
Cameron Park Zoo
Charles Paddock Zoo
East Texas Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Henry Vilas Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Lupa Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Safari Tails
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Special Memories Zoo
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Zoo Boise
Feathertail Glider (3 Holders)
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Staten Island Zoo
Brush-Tailed Bettong (14 Holders)
Birmingham Zoo
Capron Park Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Gladys Porter Zoo
Lake Superior Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Montgomery Zoo
Oak Creek
Potawatomi Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Smithsonian National Zoo
Long-Nosed Potoroo (1 Holder)
Gladys Porter Zoo
Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo (17 Holders)
Bronx Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Dallas World Aquarium
Detroit Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Kansas City Zoo
Lincoln Children’s Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo & Gardens
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
Santa Fe Teaching Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Woodland Park Zoo
Zoo Miami
Agile Wallaby (5 Holders)
Emberwood Farm
Emerald Coast Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Odessa Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
Tamar Wallaby (14-15 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Buffalo Zoo
Capital of Texas Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Ellen Trout Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Greensboro Science Center
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens?
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Miller Park Zoo
Oklahoma City Zoo
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium
Sedgwick County Zoo
Tula Zoo
Parma Wallaby (8 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Happy Hollow Zoo
Kansas City Zoo
Peoria Zoo
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
Sunset Zoo
Swamp Wallaby (6 Holders)
Brevard Zoo
Cougar Mountain Zoo
Heritage Park Zoo
North Georgia Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
Bennet’s Red-Necked Wallaby (55 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Alexandria Zoo
Animal Gardens Petting Zoo
Animal Adventures
Armadillo Zoo
Austin Zoo
Binder Park Zoo
Blank Park Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Buffalo Zoo
Busch Gardens Tampa
Cape May County Zoo
Capital of Texas Zoo
Charles Paddock Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
Clay Center Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Ellen Trout Zoo
Erie Zoo
Franklin Drive-Through Safari
Gladys Porter Zoo
Grant’s Farm
Idaho Falls Zoo
John Ball Zoo
Lake Superior Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lost Creek Safari
Louisville Zoo
Luray Zoo
Oglebay's Good Zoo
Peoria Zoo
Potawatomi Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Safari North Wildlife Park
Safari Tails
Salisbury Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
SeaWorld San Antonio
Smithsonian National Zoo
Southwick’s Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Sunset Zoo
Tregembo Animal Park
Trevor Zoo
Tulsa Zoo
Turtle Back Zoo
Utica Zoo
Virginia Zoo
Washington Park Zoo
Common Wallaroo (16 Holders)
Arbuckle Wilderness
Binder Park Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Creation Kingdom Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History
Heard Museum
Louisville Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
Miller Park Zoo
Oakland Zoo
Racine Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
TGR Exotics Wildlife Park
Woodland Park Zoo
Red Kangaroo (83 Holders)
Aggieland Safari
Animal Adventures
Animal Haven Zoo
Animal World
Arbuckle Wilderness
Armadillo Zoo
Austin Aquarium
Austin Zoo
Barn Hill Preserve
Bayou Wildlife Park
Bear Den Zoo
Binder Park Zoo
Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park
Bramble Park Zoo
BREC Baton Rouge Zoo
Brevard Zoo
Brights Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Busch Gardens Tampa
Capron Park Zoo
Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo
Chahinkapa Zoo
Cherokee Drive-Through Safari
Cincinnati Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Denver Zoo
Detroit Zoo
Dickerson Park Zoo
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Doc’s Zoo
Fort Worth Zoo
Frank Buck Zoo
Franklin Drive-Through Safari
Franklin Park Zoo
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Grant’s Farm
Indian Creek Zoo
It's A Zoo Life
Jo-Don Farms
Kansas City Zoo
Lake Superior Zoo
Lee Richardson Zoo
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Lost Creek Safari
Memphis Zoo?
Monterey Zoo
My Happy Place
Nashville Zoo
Natural Bridge Zoo
Oglebay's Good Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Pine Grove Zoo
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Potter Park Zoo
Pueblo Zoo
Racine Zoo
Riverbanks Zoo
Rolling Hills Zoo
Roosevelt Park Zoo
Roscommon Zoo
Sacramento Zoo
Safari North Wildlife Park
Safari Tails
Saint Louis Zoo
San Antonio Aquarium
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Southwick’s Zoo
Space Farms Zoo & Museum
Staten Island Zoo
Summerfield Zoo
Timbavati Wildlife Park
Tulsa Zoo
Virginia Safari Park
Waccatee Zoo
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
Zoo Atlanta
Zootastic Park
Western Gray Kangaroo (10 Holders)
Brookfield Zoo
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Dallas Zoo
Gladys Porter Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Oglebay's Good Zoo
Potter Park Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Santa Barbra Zoo
Eastern Gray Kangaroo (10 Holders)
Busch Gardens Tampa
Erie Zoo
Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History
Potawatomi Zoo
Safari Tails
Saginaw Children’s Zoo
Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Turtle Back Zoo
Virginia Zoo
Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby (3-4 Holders)
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens
Los Ángeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Palm Beach Zoo
Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park?
I was under the assumption that most of their Australian species were somewhere else while the Australian section was being remodeled. Is this not the case?Common Wombat at ABQ Biopark.
I was under the assumption that most of their Australian species were somewhere else while the Australian section was being remodeled. Is this not the case?
Correct - confirmed by DWA staff during a visit earlier this summer.DWA I think is again out of Yapok.
This demonstrates well why USDA lists cannot be trusted.Common Opossum (10 Holders)
Bernice State Park Nature Center
Calusa Nature Center
Challenger Memorial Park
Crocodile Encounter
Jungle Adventures
Medicine Park Aquarium
North Georgia Wildlife Park
Safari Tails
Science Alive
TWR Wildlife Center
Care to explain why?This demonstrates well why USDA lists cannot be trusted.
There are no Common Opossums in captivity in the US. Those will all be false listings. Many of the other listings there are, as well.Care to explain why?
How are you so sure?There are no Common Opossums in captivity in the US. Those will all be false listings. Many of the other listings there are, as well.
The species has not been kept by any North American zoos in the recent past, and probably not ever. Smithsonian National Zoo made a huge deal a few years ago about they had the US's only Common Opossum, only for it to turn out to just be a weird Virginia Opossum.How are you so sure?
Many of these listings are fairly recent, and as Opossums don't live very long, it is possible that a couple more places have picked up the species since Smithsonian's acquisition in 2018. Private collections can be very secretive about what they keep, so it's possible that the National Zoo was not aware of these places having the species?The species has not been kept by any North American zoos in the recent past, and probably not ever. Smithsonian National made a huge deal a few years ago about they had the US's only Common Opossum, only for it to turn out to just be a weird Virginia Opossum.
I highly doubt it. I think Smithsonian is smart enough to not make that claim unless they were sure there was no chance any other zoos would have the species (then again, they weren't smart enough to know what species of opossum they really hadMany of these listings are fairly recent, and as Opossums don't live very long, it is possible that a couple more places have picked up the species since Smithsonian's acquisition in 2018. Private collections can be very secretive about what they keep, so it's possible that the National Zoo was not aware of these places having the species?