Pacarana's: Most uncommon animals you've seen

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Pacarana

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I haven't been a member too long so I'm not sure if this has already been done yet. If it has could someone re-direct me to it, or if enough people think its time to open it up again than please comment.

I'm curious to hear from all of you about the uncommon or very rare animals that you have seen in zoos that have a relatively small population in captivity. I haven't been to many zoos so my list will be fairly small but there are some animals on there that I'm very proud to have seen. Post a list of the animals that you are most privileged to have seen. These animals can be any kind, and any status. It doesn't have to be endangered animals, just animals that you don't see a lot of. For instance you could have a list like: Musk ox, marsh mongoose, gray mouse lemur...ect. These animals aren't threatened but are rarely exhibit in zoos. Some of you lucky ones could have a list like: Dwarf Cassowary, Saiga, Sungazer... Also keep in mind that a species listed as uncommon in one area might not be in another. I know that there are a lot more gerenuk in American than there are in Europe.


I will most likely update my list but the species that come to mind are:

Steenbok
White-lipped deer
Mishmi Takin
Babirusa
Bushpig
Congo buffalo
Somali wild ass
Northern white rhinoceros
Red uakari
Paca
Kiwi
 
Most of these are rare for just the U.S. since many European and Australian Zoos have very nice collections.
Congo Buffalo (when they were still at Brookfield Zoo)
Walrus (when they still were still at Brookfield Zoo)
Black-Footed Cat (Brookfield Zoo which now has kittens)
red-faced spider monkey (Brookfield Zoo)
sooty mangabey (Brookfield Zoo)
southern hairy nosed wombats (Brookfield Zoo)
Brown Kiwi (at Columbus)
Tiger Quoll (at Columbus)
Woylie (at Columbus)
Drill (when they still were at Lincoln Park Zoo)
White-lipped Deer (at Lincoln Park Zoo)
Persian leopard (at Lincoln Park Zoo)
Pallas Cat (Lincoln Park and Columbus)
Pacific white-sided dolphin (Shedd)
Killer Whale (SeaWorld Orlando)
 
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Harp Seal
Drill
Tiger Quoll
Red Shanked Douc Langur
Superb Bird-Of-Paradise
Emperor Penguin
Adelie Penguin
Short Finned Pilot Whale
North Island Brown Kiwi
Aardwolf
Sumatran Rhino
Gray's Crowned Guenon
Grey Bamboo Lemur
Tayra
Large-Spotted Genet
Tuatara
Guadalupe Fur Seal
Red and Blue Lory
African Forest Buffalo
Siberian Musk Deer
 
Below is a list of animals I have only seen in one collection. It doesn't mean that they are necessarily rare, but it does include some very rare species.

Taronga: Leopard seal, lyre bird, platypus, Dorcopsis wallaby
Plzen: Dusky pademelon, big-headed tortoise
London: Nduk eagle owl, Leadbeater's possum, Barton's echidna, hoolock gibbon, hog badger, angwantibo, giant armadillo
Cologne: White-nosed saki, monk saki, black uakari
Planckendal: Philippine eagle
Auckland: Tui, kaka
Waikiki Aquarium: Hawaiian monk seal
Frankfurt: Pacarana, grey-necked rock fowl
Honolulu: Iiwi
Paignton: Water vole
Chester: Mountain viscacha
Budapest: Lyle's flying fox
West Berlin: Kagu, salt desert cavy, weka
East Berlin: Dassie rat, swift fruit bat, Jentink's duiker, Persian fallow deer
Los Angeles: Mountain tapir, Baird's tapir, red wolf, yellow-footed rock wallaby, giant eland
Stuttgart: Mountain paca
Howletts: Banded leaf monkey
San Diego: Tahitian lory
Duisburg: Beluga, Commerson's dolphin, Amazon river dolphin, giant otter
Colchester: Marsh mongoose, smooth-coated otter
New York Bronx: Hoatzin

This isn't a compete list and it doesn't include rare animals that I have seen in more than one collection, nor does it include animals that I didn't see when I visited a zoo.
 
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First I tried to choose 10 of those mammals that I saw once. It was very difficult, so I expanded the list to 20. With the birds was even more difficult, so there are 30 top birds in my list. There is also a list of animals that I've seen more than once, so, they are not in the list. And they are the top animals as well: Chinese snub-nosed monkey, golden takin, mountain anoa, aye aye, two species of sifaka, red goral,Brown hyaena, Douc langur, Baikal seal, South Chinese tiger, Saiga etc... So, here is my list of mammals:
Amazon river dolphin / Inia geoffrensis
Long-tailed goral / Naemorhedus caudatus caudatus
Proboscis monkey / Nasalis larvatus
Aardwolf / Proteles cristatus
Leopard seal / Hydrurga leptonyx
Nothern white rhinoceros / Ceratotherium simum cottoni
Giant eland / Taurotragus derbianus gigas
Long-nosed echidna / Zaglossus bruijni
Pampas cat / Oncifelis colocolo
Eastern lowland gorilla / Gorilla beringei graueri
Bald uakari / Cacajao calvus
Severtzov`s argali / Ovis ammon polii
Gray snub-nosed monkey / Rhinopithecus brelichi
Black snub-nosed monkey / Rhinopithecus bieti
West African manatee / Trichechus senegalensis
White-headed langur / Presbytis leucocephalus
Satanellus/northern quoll / Dasyurus hallucatus
Banded linsang / Prionodon linsang
Chinese pangolin / Manis pentadactyla
Flat-headed cat / Prionailurus planiceps
 
List of birds:
Hoatzin / Opisthocomus hoazin
Storm`s stork / Ciconia stormi
Maleo / Macrocephalon maleo
Australian gannet / Morus serrator
Northern kaka / Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis
Superb bird-of-paradise / Lophorina superba
Pesquet`s parrot / Psittrichas fulgidus
Trumpet manucode / Manucodia keraudrenii
Tui / Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Channel-billed cuckoo / Scythrops novaehollandiae
Bare-necked fruitcrow / Gymnoderus foetidus
Capuchinbird / Perissocephalus tricolor
Bennett`s cassowary / Casuarius bennetti
Andean cock-of-the-rock / Rupicola peruviana aequatorialis
King bird-of-paradise / Cicinnurus regius
James' flamingo / Phoenicoparrus jamesi
New Guinea coucal / Centropus menbeki
Amazonian umbrellabird / Cephalopterus ornatus
St Vincent amazon / Amazona guildingii
Japanese crested ibis / Nipponia nippon
Tibetan eared pheasant / Crossoptilon harmani
Chinese monal / Lophophorus lhuysii
Hooded crane / Grus monacha
Bellbird / Anthornis melanura
North Island saddleback / Creadion carunculatus
South polar skua / Stercorarius maccormicki
Magnificent riflebird / Ptiloris magnificus
Magnificent bird-of-paradise / Cicinnurus magnificus
Greater adjutant stork / Leptoptilos dubius
Milky stork / Mycteria cinerea


More then once I saw andean flamingo, kiwi, kagu, Antipodes green parakeet, Weka, blue duck, long wattled umbrellabird, lesser adjutant stork, single watlled cassowary, Hymalaian snowcock, etc...
 
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