Rarest animals seen in a zoo or aquarium
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I think i have seen some really rare species, but none compares to this one:
- Meditarrenean Monk Seal - Aquário Vasco da Gama
I don´t remember the date, but there is still a mounted family on display in the museum part.
I've just re-read this thread from the start and somehow missed this entry first time round, now my jaw has dropped!
A species I would love to see along with the Iberian lynx that you're also far more likely to see first!
any photos of the Hirola?
How were you able to go to Al Wabra!? Any photos?? Specially of the Beira??
You've been to Tehran?
Giant Panda (Smithsonian National Zoo)
Chacoan Peccary (Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo)
Steller Sea Lion (Mystic Aquarium)
Harp Seal (Mystic Aquarium)- Rehabilitation animal so I don't know if it counts.
Maxwell's Duiker (Bronx Zoo)-Haven't been able to locate any other zoos with them.
Kihansi Spray Toad (Bronx Zoo)
Pere David's Deer (Bronx Zoo)
Painted Stork (Bronx Zoo)- I think they're rare in captivity.
Maleo (Bronx Zoo)
Texas Ocelot (ZooAmerica)
Lesser Mouse Lemur (Bronx Zoo)
Masai Giraffe (Roger Williams Park Zoo)- Rare in the U.S., don't know about elsewhere
Japanese Giant Salamander (Smithsonian National Zoo)
Blesbok (Bronx Zoo)- I think they're being phased-out in the U.S. At least the Bronx got ride of them since that visit.
Chacoan Peccary (Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo)
Steller Sea Lion (Mystic Aquarium)
Harp Seal (Mystic Aquarium)- Rehabilitation animal so I don't know if it counts.
Maxwell's Duiker (Bronx Zoo)-Haven't been able to locate any other zoos with them.
Kihansi Spray Toad (Bronx Zoo)
Pere David's Deer (Bronx Zoo)
Painted Stork (Bronx Zoo)- I think they're rare in captivity.
Maleo (Bronx Zoo)
Texas Ocelot (ZooAmerica)
Lesser Mouse Lemur (Bronx Zoo)
Masai Giraffe (Roger Williams Park Zoo)- Rare in the U.S., don't know about elsewhere
Japanese Giant Salamander (Smithsonian National Zoo)
Blesbok (Bronx Zoo)- I think they're being phased-out in the U.S. At least the Bronx got ride of them since that visit.
and apparently Singapore, Java, Russia, Japan, India, the Philippines......
maleo are great birds aren't they?ThylacineAlive said:
Ring-Tailed Mongoose (Bronx Zoo)- Don't know about the world, but the Bronx Zoo has the only ones left in North America.
I'll be going to the Central Park Zoo soon (although I've been saying that since before I joined ZooChat) and they have some rareties like Chinese Mergansers (only colony in North America), Mountain Coati, and Gentoo and Chinstrap Penguins.
They're pretty rare as a zoo exhibit (outside Bedfordshire!).
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I´ve also seen Iberian Lynx in Lisbon in 2004. I don´t remember when i saw the monk seals, but the family is still there i think, but stuffed...I've just re-read this thread from the start and somehow missed this entry first time round, now my jaw has dropped!
A species I would love to see along with the Iberian lynx that you're also far more likely to see first!
Does Central Park Zoo has Mountain Coatis!!?!?! I saw them this summer but they looked a lot like Nasua nasua to me.
They are indeed Nasua nasua. There's a weird thing going on in the US where a population of smallish ring-tailed coatis have been either knowingly or unknowingly dubbed "mountain coati" which causes confusion with Nasuella olivacea. I would have thought WCS would have known better though.
should probably add that the misinformation is due to private breeders, as opposed to zoos importing them and passing them off as such (i.e. the "mountain coatis" are being kept and sold by private breeders, and a few zoos are buying them from the breeders and somehow not realising they aren't actually mountain coatis).
When did you see the Harp Seal? Any idea if it's still at Mystic??
That is correct, thanks for the clarification.
There are no Harp Seals currently being rehabilitated by Mystic Aquarium. I believe that individual he might have been talking about might have been Pequot, the blind seal who is now at Detroit.
I´ve also seen Iberian Lynx in Lisbon in 2004. I don´t remember when i saw the monk seals, but the family is still there i think, but stuffed...
I envy you.
Ituri- How do you know that they're not really Mountain Coatis? Durrell has them so they are definetly in captivity and just because Durrell's specimen is darker colored doesn't neccessarily mean that the ones in the U.S. aren't Mountain Coati. Very little is known of this species as far as I know of so, for all we know, Durrell's could just be a color variation or some color mutation.
Giant Eland- I visited Mystic in the summer of 2011 and I believe the seal on exhibit in the rehabilitation center is now a Grey Seal. The Harp Seal I saw probably was Pequot but I didn't know it was sent to Detroit as BZF said.
Are Partula Snails rare in captivity?
Ugh you mean the seal I tried to call Detroit Zoo about in 2008 to ask if they had (since ISIS listed 1 harp seal there), and the people I spoke to insisted they didn't, so I didn't bother leaving Cleveland early enough to hit up the Detroit Zoo, only to find out years later they totally had it. So now I'm stuck either going back to Detroit (mehh) or waiting till I see one somewhere else.