Is it considered Cervidae? If so you can't import it into Alabama.
No longer kept/rarely kept species in North American zoos?
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Is it considered Cervidae? If so you can't import it into Alabama.
JBZvolunteer
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Nope muntjacs are actually one of the most commonly kept exotic animal species in the home. Normally a person will have their yard fenced off for them with a little dog house style house and a easy access door such as a slider so than can also come in at times. I have even heard of people litter box training muntjacs.
Few birds sofar ( kiwi, kea, some vultures ) but also species like shoebill and caspian pelican are very rare as far as I'm informed !
The caspian pelican only kept at San Diego.
In Europe the species is luckily doing better and breeding result are also increasing ( Rotterdam Zoo and Overloon - the Netherlands, Planckendael - Belgium, several German zoos ).
Any Lears macaws left in North American zoos ?
and one ( actualy 2 ) of mine favorites the Rock fowls have disappeared already for a long time completly from captivity.
The caspian pelican only kept at San Diego.
In Europe the species is luckily doing better and breeding result are also increasing ( Rotterdam Zoo and Overloon - the Netherlands, Planckendael - Belgium, several German zoos ).
Any Lears macaws left in North American zoos ?
and one ( actualy 2 ) of mine favorites the Rock fowls have disappeared already for a long time completly from captivity.
jabirus, i think the only zoo that has them is the dallas world aquarium, and the shoebill, i have only seen it in san diego wap. The saiga is also extinct, since the last one died at san diego some years ago. And by any reason have any of you seen magpie goose?
Shoebills are also in Lowry Park (first place in North America to breed them), Dallas World Aquarium, Houston Zoo, and others have them I believe.
I hope you mean Saigas are extinct in the U.S. as captive animals, as there are some in the wild still, and some in I believe a Russian zoo.
I've seen Magpie Geese at Lowry Park Zoo, and I know Cincinnati Zoo, Montgomery Zoo, and probably some others have them as well.
ungulate nerd
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Santa Ana Zoo at prentice park also has Magpie geese (Anseranas semipalmata), they have 2 of them
A species completly dissapeared from the USA / Canada is the Flat-headed cat. It has always been a very rare species in captivity and I know only about one specimen send from Rotterdam Zoo to Lincoln Park Chicago in 1978.
Were there any others ?
Were there any others ?
AbileneBoy
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what about aardwolves? I distinctly remember seeing them at San Antonio Zoo in the 1990s, and OnlineZoo has photos of same animal there in early 2000s. But now I don't know of any in USA
Cincinnati has aardwolves.
AmbikaFan
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Wow. So they've given up on the whole sub-species? I could have sworn either SDZ or Rosamund Gifford had an Indochinese 5-6 years ago. And what about the Bengals? I know the whites have no viable genetic crosses left due to too fee specimens, but is that true of the orange Bengals too? They're not too hard to find.
They haven't given up on the subspecies, but it is just a different taxon than previously assumed. That is if one accepts Malayan as a separate subspecies...
I don't recall the precise details, but my recollection is that all of the "Bengal" subspecies in the U.S. (both white and orange) are actually "generic" (i.e. a mixture of several subspecies), which has resulted in what is to my knowledge the only exception to the ordinary Green SSP criteria for AZA accredited institutions: they are required to phase out the generic (usually labeled Bengal) individuals in their collections as they are currently just taking up space that could be occupied by the three "pure" subspecies currently in the U.S.