Rarest animals seen in a zoo or aquarium

Here are some of mine:

Bald uakari, mountain tapir, perentie - Los Angeles Zoo
Chinese pangolin - Taipei Zoo
Risso’s dolphin, African manatee, smooth hammerhead shark - Farglory Ocean Park
Amazonian manatee - Atagawa Tropical and Alligator Farm
Spectral tarsier, Japanese rock ptarmigan, highland streaked tenrec, great slaty woodpecker - Ueno Zoo
Ezo least shrew, Japanese mole, Japanese water shrew, Japanese weasel, Ezo mountain hare, Australian glow worm - Tama Zoo
Bornean earless monitor, psychedelic rock gecko - IZoo
Goliath frog, Anderson’s salamander, Andean marsupial frog - KawaZoo
Harbor porpoise, Okhotsk ringed seal, flying fish, Mandarin dogfish - Kamogawa Sea World
Copper shark, bearded seal - Otaru Aquarium
Knifetooth sawfish, Kaluga sturgeon - Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe
Baikal seal, Australian ghost shark - Sunshine Aquarium
Pygmy killer whale, rough-toothed dolphin, pantropical spotted dolphin, salamander shark, dusky shark, silky shark, tiger shark, porcupine ray, bentfin devil ray, threetooth puffer, and a lot more - Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
 
lintworm said:
I am surprised Banded mongoose are a rare species in the US, in Europe hundreds of zoos keep them, including many smaller ones.
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I feel like that's the story in the U.S. We seem to have a lot of similar species like meerkats, and ringtail lemurs, (And yes I do know that European zoos have a lot of those as well), But It's interesting since Asia seems to have a lot of Leopard cats in their collection, and the U.S. has none.
 
Luke da Zoo nerd said:
I feel like that's the story in the U.S. We seem to have a lot of similar species like meerkats, and ringtail lemurs, (And yes I do know that European zoos have a lot of those as well), But It's interesting since Asia seems to have a lot of Leopard cats in their collection, and the U.S. has none.
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there are a few
 
Luke da Zoo nerd said:
Here are handful more. (Might have already been mentioned already).
These are all rare in the U.S.
Brown throated three-toed sloth (Dallas world aquarium)
Ocean sunfish (monterey bay)
Golden rumped elephant shrew: Omaha, Philadephia
Golden-bellied mangabey (Cleveland metroparks zoo)
African Savannah Water buffalo (SDZ wildlife park)
Margay (Arizona Sonora desert museum) Maybe?
Cacomsticle (Arizona Sonora-desert museum)
Antilles tree spider (Cincinnati) Not sure if they are rare or not I have never seen them on display anywhere else? (Could be behind the scenes)
Silvery gibbon (Fort wayne)
Banded mongoose (Fort wayne)
Agile gibbon (Omaha)
Greater bulldog bat (Omaha)
Ring tailed mongoose (Bronx)
Hawaiian monk seal (Minnesota)
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Omaha and Philly keep Black-and-Rufous Giant Sengi, not Golden-Rumped. Also Arizona-Sonora keeps Ocelot and Ringtail, not Margay and cacomistle.

Luke da Zoo nerd said:
Of what?
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There are Leopard Cats left in the US, just not many (if any?) in AZA zoos.

drill said:
San Francisco might be getting Yellow mongoose for their new Madagascar exhibit.
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Unfortunately I highly doubt that import will go through, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for them because Yellow Mongoose are very cool. Are there any cusimanse left in the US?

I wonder whether the outdated taxonomic classification of many Euplerids as mongoose would make it difficult for zoos to import further vontsira or boky from European zoos?

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
When I visited they kept Ocelot and Ringtail, of which they had many wild-rescues bts. I believe the last cacomistle died at Memphis earlier this year/end of last year.

~Thylo
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Thanks for the Information. On a Zoochat species list their was cacomstile listed as a behind the scenes animal, but I don't know how acuurate that species list is.
 
Luke da Zoo nerd said:
Thanks for the Information. On a Zoochat species list their was cacomstile listed as a behind the scenes animal, but I don't know how acuurate that species list is.
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I believe you're referring to my thread. I called Ringtails "Ring-Tailed Cacomistle" because that's a more appropriate and descriptive name for them imo. Sorry for any confusion!

~Thylo
 
Arizona Ring-Tailed Cacomistle Bassariscus astutus arizonensis
Chihuahuan Ring-Tailed Cacomistle
Are these posts subspecies? Most likely.
 
Luke da Zoo nerd said:
@ThylacineAlive I was wondering. Is their any way I could see Cacomsticles or Margays in the U.S?
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Well if Memphis did indeed keep the last animal then no on the cacomistle (would love to find out otherwise, though!). As for Margay I think Santa Ana Zoo in California has the last one on public display in the US.

I think I've asked this before but does anyone know the origins of the US Margay population? I always thought they were the same as the European population (Yucatan subspecies) but I've also been told they're different.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Well if Memphis did indeed keep the last animal then no on the cacomistle (would love to find out otherwise, though!). As for Margay I think Santa Ana Zoo in California has the last one on public display in the US.

I think I've asked this before but does anyone know the origins of the US Margay population? I always thought they were the same as the European population (Yucatan subspecies) but I've also been told they're different.

~Thylo
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I am not sure what the origin is, but the Cincy zoo used to have a margay? Does anyone know what origin that was? It was In the old Cat house.
 
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