Chester Zoo Mystery ungulate

Sun Wukong said:
Ok, following (silly) suggestion: Zebraduiker. Lovely animal with a nice pattern that even the average zoo visitor finds attractive. Leipzig has them on their Gondwana list (as well as Sumatra rhinos...), and there seems to be a facility in Liberia where several rare duikers are kept. Maybe Chester wants a piece of that...;)
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where is this list?

i came up with some poss species

duiker, gaur, mountain tapir

i know these are found in europe, (except mountain tapir) will post some more possis later
 
Sun Wukong said:
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@Pygathrix: Didn't we already mention the kouprey and saola?;)
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Now I would get REALLY excited about Saola in particular,- but sadly 99.999% of Chester's mainstream visitors wouldn't, so I think its more likely Pigs will fly :rolleyes:(or Red River Hogs take wing?) than either of these species ever come to Chester. But I can always hope I am wrong.;)
 
Cat-Man said:
where is this list?

i came up with some poss species

duiker, gaur, mountain tapir

i know these are found in europe, (except mountain tapir) will post some more possis later
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Cat-man, don't just post a list of random species that don't fit the mentioned criteria.

Pertinax, Sun Wukong et al are discussing species in depth which fit the profile (realistic or not)
 
sorry,

i rekon mountain tapir will be in with a chance.

are there any sumatran rhino in europe???
 
Cat-Man said:
sorry,

i rekon mountain tapir will be in with a chance.

are there any sumatran rhino in europe???
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I doubt Chester would bother with mountain tapir as they already have tapir in the collection (although they would fit the cloud forest theme better).

I don't believe that there are any sumatran rhino outside of indonesia other then those at cincinatti and the individual at white oak.
 
Cat-Man said:
no, they have DIK DIKS
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I know this cat-man, I was referring to a post by another member who had guessed at a species and was asking the question "was they on about the Mystery Ungulate" not that the DIK-DIK's were, okay I see that it wasn't completely clear.
 
If there is one thing this thread proves, its that everyone(well Zoochat folk anyway) loves a mystery. Every so often we come back to trying to guess what this species is, even if it never actually materialises....
 
9 years is a long time and many ungulates have joined the collection since, it could have been any one of those.
 
Except it couldn't because the thread is quite specific that it is an ungulate that wasn't in any public European collection 9 years ago. That presumably narrows it down to zero.
Furthermore I think there's more chance of Rob actually knowing how many bongos Chester has than of him not knowing what this 'mystery' species is.
 
I believe the animal was Phillip's dik-dik, that could have been imported from Al-Wabra, but as can now be seen 9 years on, fell through.
And if i was still a mod, here is where i would close this thread.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Since time began,you mean to say that you have never seen one in the wild in the depths of the New Forest:pits one of the most amazing sight you can see in the natural world the only thing that beats it is seeing a Pink Elephant in Crewe;):D
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I've never seen an elephant in Crewe, but I did see one (Asiatic) in Nantwich a few years ago. In a field, as we drove past.

And a few miles away in Batherton I saw a Red Panda.
 
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