Name a zoo which no other zoochatter visited!

carlos55 said:
Mexico City now has a second aquarium, Acuario Michin Ciudad de México. I visited late last year. No other zoo chatter has been there. It is a rather commercial venue like our other aquarium in Mexico City, Acuario Inbursa. The collection is adequate as are most of the exhibits, other than a rather ugly ring tailed lemur addition. It is interesting to note that about 12 years ago Mexico City did not have any aquarium at all and now we have 2.
Click to expand...
Mazatlán also has opened a new aquarium, the Gran Acuario Mazatlán Mar de Cortes, and I believe I’m the only one who’s visited it as yet. It debuted in 2023 and is the largest aquarium in Mexico, after the complete closure and remodel of the original facility that had been there for some time. Truly fantastic architecture and exhibitry (though it does have some rather old outside exhibits still). Highly recommend checking it out for any who can get down that way!
 
I don't know if any other Zoochatters ever visted Talune Wildlife park, which was near Cygnet, south of Hobart, Tasmania. This was a small park with the usual native wildlife like kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, echidnas, tasmanian devils etc., but also platypus! the park closed in the early 2000s.
Also Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary doesn't have a gallery, but I'm sure someone else must have been there, it's been around for years, and ZooDoo has a gallery, so there have been Zoochatters in the Hobart area.
 
Austin the Sengi said:
Chase Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservancy
Click to expand...

You do in fact appear to be the only member to have visited this place.

KingOfTheU said:
St. Maarten Zoo years ago.
Click to expand...

At least one person who has been to St. Maarten has an account here on ZooChat and they sit on the board for the zoo. That being said, I don't know if I'd actually say they are a ZooChatter and you are at least the only somewhat active one as they have not logged in since a month after creating their account in 2012. You can find their brief comments here.

decat said:
I don't know if any other Zoochatters ever visted Talune Wildlife park, which was near Cygnet, south of Hobart, Tasmania. This was a small park with the usual native wildlife like kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, echidnas, tasmanian devils etc., but also platypus! the park closed in the early 2000s.
Also Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary doesn't have a gallery, but I'm sure someone else must have been there, it's been around for years, and ZooDoo has a gallery, so there have been Zoochatters in the Hobart area.
Click to expand...

MRJ mentions several times in threads throughout this site that he had visited Talune before it closed. One of those instances can be found here.

Osedax has visited Bonorong and gave a species list from his visit here.
 
Austin the Sengi said:
@SwampDonkey, I have learned from a private conversation that SusScrofa wasn’t too interested in ever visiting; which, given the pricing of the experiences that the place has to offer, is completely understandable.

But yes, as of right now, I am the only ZooChatter who has been thus far.
Click to expand...
Ha, wow, that's pretty cool for a place that isn't really that obscure. They are only about 30 minutes from me, but I haven't made it over either.
 
Last year I made a trip to Suriname, a country not listed by ZooChat, and generally not a country visited often by tourists. I saw some cool animals in the wild (Anacondas, caimans, sloths, etc), and also visited the Paramaribo zoo and the Neotropical Butterfly park. Which is so rarely visited that it's practically closed and used more as a turtle breeding facility than a butterfly garden. The only reason we were allowed to visit is because my father used to live in Suriname and was an old friend of the owner
 
Very long time ago, but has anyone here visited the small zoo in Caracas' Parque Del Este? I remember visintg as a child in the 2010s, it was a small zoo I recall having a decent freshwater exhibit and a jaguar den.
 
NSU42 said:
At least one person who has been to St. Maarten has an account here on ZooChat and they sit on the board for the zoo. That being said, I don't know if I'd actually say they are a ZooChatter and you are at least the only somewhat active one as they have not logged in since a month after creating their account in 2012. You can find their brief comments here.
Click to expand...
Huh! Cool.
 
Randomname0183 said:
Very long time ago, but has anyone here visited the small zoo in Caracas' Parque Del Este? I remember visintg as a child in the 2010s, it was a small zoo I recall having a decent freshwater exhibit and a jaguar den.
Click to expand...

Yes, at least one other ZooChatter has been there. Their review of the place can be found here.
 
Thinking of other stretches (though I'm not completely sure if this counts as a zoo currently) has anyone else visited the UK owl and Raptor Centre at Groombridge? While currently for private visits only the place used to be open as part of the Groombridge Place grounds and you could see most of the birds as a visitor.
 
Randomname0183 said:
Thinking of other stretches (though I'm not completely sure if this counts as a zoo currently) has anyone else visited the UK owl and Raptor Centre at Groombridge? While currently for private visits only the place used to be open as part of the Groombridge Place grounds and you could see most of the birds as a visitor.
Click to expand...
I visited Groombridge Place in 2012; I posted some photos on ZooChat of the zebra X donkey hybrid that was there.

Zebra x donkey hybrid; Groombridge Place; 6th April 2012 - ZooChat

Zebra x donkey hybrid; Groombridge Place; 6th April 2012 - ZooChat

Zebra x donkey hybrid; Groombridge Place; 6th April 2012 - ZooChat

Does anybody know what happened to this hybrid?
 
Last edited:
I have a number of places where I'm one of the "lucky" few to have gone. Travelling around the Midwest I've tried to find as many institutions as possible. Ones that I expect I'm the only one to have been to include:

  1. Cape Safari (Cape Girardeau, MO)
  2. Wild Animal Adventures (Sullivan, MO)
  3. Big Joel's Safari (Wright City, MO)
  4. Aquarium at the Boardwalk (Branson, MO)
  5. Branson's Wild World (Branson, MO)
  6. The Butterfly Palace (Branson, MO)
  7. Promised Land Zoo (Branson, MO)

In a much nicer turn of events, I visited the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island, GA in March. A small rescue facility, but very nice!
 
Newzooboy said:
I guess Zoo Ave in Costa Rica
Click to expand...

I have been there, it was a lovely place. pretty sure birdsandbats has been there too

Also been to the desert tortoise conservation center

I have two candidates
Southern Nevada Zoological park (closed)

and Ardastra Gardens in the Bahamas (home of the marching flamingos -which meant some guy ran behind them as they fled!). But there I saw a
Bahamian hutia-which may be a Zoochatter only species. Don't remember
 
Last edited:
I seem to probably been the only zoochatter to have visited the National Zoo of Nicaragua, or any zoo in Nicaragua for that matter.
It was a pretty poor zoo, but the bird collection was really nice!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top