Why would you be against the zoo getting a species purely due to what one other facility in the area holds? It's not like Roger Williams Park Zoo getting emperor tamarins would be directly competing with Buttonwood, as both zoos would still have a lot to differentiate each other, and are a far enough distance apart that they really aren't directly competing that much. Even if Bearded Emperor Tamarins are at both zoos, it doesn't change the fact it's a very interesting species that make good exhibit animals. People love small monkeys, and I'm generally in favor of any time a species can be added to the collection without the loss of any additional species, which the inclusion of another callicthrid to Faces of the Rainforest would be doing. Would you rather them get a different new callicthrid species instead (if so, which one?), or are you just entirely against the idea of more callichtrids?
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Where did you hear about this? Do you know if this is still being considered?
Cookie and monster the what? Apples? Steam-rollers?
Neither apples nor steam-rollers
. Blue-Throated Piping Guans. I'll take this opportunity to remind the OP, in this case @wild boar that it's a good idea to specify the species whenever using animal names. Most of us don't know the names of every animal at every zoo we follow on this site, and while I happened to know this specific one, most members probably don't- making it beneficial to add in the species to avoid confusion.
I went to the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History last month, and they had some displays of taxidermy animals that had lived at RWPZ in the past. Most of these were of species that the zoo no longer keeps, including Ocelot, Bobcat, Sootey Mangabey, Coati, and Lion.
I haven't been to the museum myself, but I did go at the zoo once to a presentation by someone (who happens to be a good friend) who has done a lot of research on the zoo's history, and contributed to the new history book. The lions were talked about in that presentation, and specifically the cubs that were born. RWPZ imported a breeding pair of lions (since this was the days everything was wild-caught), and it turns out the pair was brother and sister. Many of the cubs to be born suffered from lots of genetic defects and the majority did not survive very long. Those other four species I was not familiar with as being formerly held species, very interesting, especially the sootey mangabey, as that's a species either not present or extremely rare in US Zoos nowadays.
The taxidermy Lion display featured an adult female with two cubs, so it makes sense that they died at a young age due to genetic issues. If you are curious about the museum, it is a nice place, very close to the zoo, and small enough to visit in about an hour. I also uploaded a bunch of pictures to the gallery. One of the highlights of the place, in addition to the RWPZ animals, was a small section for taxidermy extinct birds (with 11 species including Guadalupe Caracara, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, and Passenger Pigeon).
1. pygmy marmoset - in old Tropical America (circa 2014)
2. Asian brown tortoise - in Tropical America with the radiated tortoises (circa 2013)
3. some sort of monitor
4. yellow-footed rock wallaby - Australasia (nineteen-eighties)
5. Asian small-clawed otter - Australasia (nineteen-eighties)
6. Chiloé wigeon - with the flamingos pre-new habitat
7. black-necked swan - with the flamingos pre-new habitat
8. rosybill pochard - with the flamingos pre-new habitat
9. smooth-helmeted iguana - in Faces of the Rainforest; replaced by collared tree runner
2. Asian brown tortoise - in Tropical America with the radiated tortoises (circa 2013)
3. some sort of monitor
4. yellow-footed rock wallaby - Australasia (nineteen-eighties)
5. Asian small-clawed otter - Australasia (nineteen-eighties)
6. Chiloé wigeon - with the flamingos pre-new habitat
7. black-necked swan - with the flamingos pre-new habitat
8. rosybill pochard - with the flamingos pre-new habitat
9. smooth-helmeted iguana - in Faces of the Rainforest; replaced by collared tree runner