Snowleopard's Mammals: A Lifetime List of Species Mammalian and Non-Mammalian

[snowleopard]

Time for TWO more deer species today. One is very common and one incredibly rare.

I've seen Sika Deer at 37 zoos. Looking at Zootierliste, there's at least a dozen subspecies of Sika Deer, a startlingly high number. I'm very curious as to how many I've seen. There's non-subspecific status Sika Deer listed in more than 20 American zoos, probably each one not even AZA-accredited. That organization, for a variety of reasons, is simply not interested in the vast majority of deer species. Therefore, any North American zoo nerd who wishes to see a few Cervid rarities needs to head to non-accredited establishments or venture overseas. In Europe, Sika Deer are super common and listed in close to 100 zoos just under the non-subspecific status category on Zootierliste. They also have had a long list of different names on zoo signs, as you will see below.

2019 = 9 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Sika Deer – 1975
2- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Sika Deer – 1998
3- Langenberg Wildlife Park (Switzerland) – Sika Deer – 2003
4- San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) – Sika Deer – 2006
5- Bronx Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2008
6- Oklahoma City Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2008
7- Wildlife Safari (USA) – Sika Deer – 2010
8- Zoo Montana (USA) – Sika Deer – 2010
9- Akron Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2010
10- Montgomery Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2010
11- Zoo Boise (USA) – Sika Deer – 2010
12- Oakland Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2011
13- Roosevelt Park Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2014
14- Wisconsin Deer Park (USA) – Sika Deer – 2014
15- Grant’s Farm (USA) – Sika Deer – 2014
16- Clay Center Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2014
17- Gators & Friends: Alligator Park & Exotic Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2015
18- Cherokee Trace Drive-Thru Safari (USA) – Sika Deer – 2015
19- Exotic Resort Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2015
20- Olympic Game Farm (USA) – Sika Deer – 2016
21- Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo (Canada) – Sika Deer – 2018
22- GarLyn Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2018
23- Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA) – Sika Deer – 2018
24- Van Blanckendaell Park (Netherlands) – Sika Deer – 2019
25- Opel Zoo (Germany) – Sika Deer – 2019
26- Beekse Bergen (Netherlands) – Sika Deer – 2019
27- ZooParc Overloon (Netherlands) – Sika Deer – 2019
28- Tierpark Hagenbeck (Germany) – Sika Deer – 2019
29- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Sika Deer – 2019
30- Serengeti-Park (Germany) – Sika Deer – 2019
31- Tierpark Strohen (Germany) – Sika Deer – 2019
32- Nordhorn Zoo (Germany) – Sika Deer – 2019
33- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Sika Deer – 2022
34- Jyllands Park Zoo (Denmark) – Sika Deer – 2022
35- Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) – Sika Deer – 2023
36- Lanna Mini Zoo (Thailand) – Sika Deer – 2024
37- Chiang Mai Night Safari (Thailand) – Sika Deer – 2024

AND...

I've seen White-lipped Deer, also known as Thorold's Deer, at only 6 zoos. Here is an extremely rare species, listed at less than 30 zoos on the planet on Zootierliste and a third of those are found in China. Thinking about it, I'm lucky to have even seen this species at 6 locations and only ONCE in the last dozen years have I ever come across White-lipped Deer.

1- San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) – White-lipped Deer – 2006
2- Lincoln Park Zoo - Illinois (USA) – White-lipped Deer – 2008
3- Detroit Zoo (USA) – White-lipped Deer – 2008
4- Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (USA) – White-lipped Deer – 2010
5- Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park (USA) – White-lipped Deer – 2012
6- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – White-lipped Deer – 2019

Sika Deer can still be found at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) in one of the spacious field enclosures. They are labeled as Indochinese Sika Deer.

@King of Komodo Dragons

Here's the Red Panda and Northern Mainland Sika Deer exhibits at Zoo Montana (USA) in 2010:

My photo from 2010 shows a couple of Sika Deer sitting in the shade at Akron Zoo (USA). I'm sure that this AZA zoo would have phased out the species by now. "We don't need no stinkin' deer diversity in our organization!"

The big Asian field exhibit at Montgomery Zoo (USA) held Banteng, Sika Deer, Axis Deer, Fallow Deer, Reeves's Muntjac and Sarus Cranes when I toured the zoo in 2010. Wow!

Zoo Boise (USA) had Mandarin Sika Deer in with Llamas in 2010:

@Ituri

Japanese Sika Deer was the name on the sign (in small print) when I visited Roosevelt Park Zoo (USA) in 2012.

Sika Deer began to pop up in obscure, privately-owned facilities with long names like Gators & Friends: Alligator Park & Exotic Zoo (USA).

And Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo (Canada):

I saw around a dozen Sika Deer at Van Blanckendaell Park (Netherlands), the first of 9 zoos that held the species on my summer 2019 zoo trek.

There's Vietnamese Sika Deer at ZooParc Overloon (Netherlands). I wonder how many different subspecies of Sika Deer I've seen?

@KevinB

Tierpark Nordhorn (Germany) has a Sika Deer exhibit that's quite beautifully landscaped and it's actually a walk-through enclosure.

Another zoo with a walk-through Sika Deer exhibit is Jyllands Park Zoo (Denmark). Usually, I've come across many European zoos with deer walk-throughs, but it's mainly been with Fallow Deer.

As for White-lipped Deer, I saw this species for the first time at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) and, judging from this 2022 photo, it would seem that the species is still present at the facility. Maybe @Kudu21 knows how many are still there, but I do know that the park has had breeding success in recent years.

@MGolka

I also saw White-lipped Deer at Lincoln Park Zoo (USA) back before they phased them out. It's hard to believe that the zoo had TWO exhibits for the deer and now they are long gone.

Both photos via @geomorph

Detroit Zoo (USA) had a number of White-lipped Deer when I first visited in 2008...now all gone.

@pachyderm pro

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (USA) also had a small herd of White-lipped Deer in the Northern Trek section of the zoo. All 8 photos of the White-Lipped Deer exhibit in the ZooChat gallery were taken by me back in 2010 and there's zero photos since then. Perhaps this rare deer species was phased out soon after my visit? Maybe @CMZman or another Cleveland regular would know when the deer were permanently removed from the zoo.

I know that Rosamond Gifford Zoo (USA) still maintains a few White-lipped Deer, right near the Asian Elephant complex. Perhaps those deer are a little overshadowed by the historic TWIN baby male elephants...

Thank goodness for a zoo like Berlin Tierpark (Germany). Honestly, this place "destroys" basically every zoo in North America in terms of biodiversity of hooved mammals. While zoo after zoo is phasing out rare and exotic species, the mighty Berlin Tierpark regularly has circa 70+ hooved species all across the grounds. Maybe even more. And each species is featured in fantastic, world-class exhibits that are spacious and so impressive that many other zoos look quite 'naff' in comparison. I really 'liked' the Tierpark in 2019 when I trudged around for 8 hours, but I have begun to 'love' it more and more as the years have gone by.

@SivatheriumGuy

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 23 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

 

[EagleScout610]

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo (USA) also had a small herd of White-lipped Deer in the Northern Trek section of the zoo. All 8 photos of the White-Lipped Deer exhibit in the ZooChat gallery were taken by me back in 2010 and there's zero photos since then. Perhaps this rare deer species was phased out soon after my visit? Maybe @CMZman or another Cleveland regular would know when the deer were permanently removed from the zoo.

ZooChat has the Onagers that lived in their exhibit arriving in 2012, so around then. I'm not sure exactly when the deer left, however.

 

[Kudu21]

To answer all of your Safari Park inquiries, @snowleopard —

The Safari Park has had sambar continuously since it opened in the 70s, just not the same subspecies. The Indian sambar are all gone now, but there is still a herd of Malayan sambar.

You might have also seen Javan rusa at the Safari Park as well on your earliest visit. They had them both in the Asian field exhibits as well as the petting kraal.

The Safari Park actually went out of Père David’s deer for awhile. They just brought back a breeding herd of 2.4 earlier this year.

The Safari Park no longer has white-lipped deer. They sent out the last of their herd early last year.

(Also, for what it’s worth, “Indochinese sika” and “Vietnamese sika” are just two common names for the same animal - C. n. pseudaxis)

 

[pachyderm pro]

Detroit Zoo (USA) had a number of White-lipped Deer when I first visited in 2008...now all gone.

@pachyderm pro

Not all gone, technically. There's still a single white-lipped deer x Bactrian deer hybrid in this exhibit with the camels.

I remember seeing pure white-lipped deer at Lincoln Park many years ago, a really impressive and attractive species. It's a shame they're gone, although at least Père David’s deer have been added in their place which was a pleasant surprise.

 

[snowleopard]

I've seen Elk at 57 zoos. Often called Wapiti, and with at least 10 or so subspecies, Elk have been sighted by me almost exclusively in North American collections. I saw none in Australia, only at 6 zoos in Western Europe, and 1 zoo in Southeast Asia. But in Canada and the U.S., seeing Elk is similar to seeing White-deer Deer in that they are plentiful! The two summers where I saw more captive Elk than any other time period were the years of 2014 and 2015:

2014 = 16 zoos
2015 = 9 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Elk – 1975
2- Woodland Park Zoo (USA) – Roosevelt Elk – 1996
3- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Elk – 1998
4- Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA) – Elk – 2005
5- Oregon Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2005
6- B.C. Wildlife Park (Canada) – Elk – 2006
7- Detroit Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2008
8- Toronto Zoo (Canada) – Elk – 2008
9- Oklahoma City Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2008
10- Wildlife Safari (USA) – Roosevelt Elk – 2010
11- Sedgwick County Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2010
12- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2010
13- North Carolina Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2010
14- Montgomery Zoo (USA) – Roosevelt Elk – 2010
15- Baton Rouge Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2010
16- Oakland Zoo (USA) – Tule Elk – 2011
17- Pocatello Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2012
18- Yellowstone Bear World (USA) – Elk – 2014
19- Bear Country U.S.A. (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
20- Dakota Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
21- Chahinkapa Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
22- Pine Grove Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
23- Irvine Park & Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2014
24- Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
25- Wisconsin Deer Park (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
26- Phillips Park Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
27- Niabi Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
28- Wildlife Prairie Park (USA) – Elk – 2014
29- Grant’s Farm (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
30- Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park & Wildlife Safari (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
31- Lee Richardson Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2014
32- Pueblo Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2014
33- Willow Park Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2014
34- Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary (USA) – Elk – 2015
35- Amarillo Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2015
36- Cherokee Trace Drive-Thru Safari (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2015
37- Exotic Resort Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2015
38- Hillcrest Park Zoo (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2015
39- Living Desert Zoo – New Mexico (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2015
40- Wildlife West Nature Park (USA) – Elk – 2015
41- Bearizona (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2015
42- West Coast Game Park Safari (USA) – Rocky Mountain Elk – 2015
43- Discovery Wildlife Park (Canada) – Elk – 2016
44- Olympic Game Farm (USA) – Elk – 2016
45- Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park & Zoo (Canada) – Elk – 2018
46- Assiniboine Park Zoo (Canada) – Elk – 2018
47- Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2018
48- Menominee Park Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2018
49- Wildwood Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2018
50- Zollman Zoo (USA) – Elk – 2018
51- Natuurpark Lelystad (Netherlands) – Elk – 2019
52- Planckendael Zoo (Belgium) – Elk – 2019
53- Pairi Daiza (Belgium) – Elk – 2019
54- Tierpark Hagenbeck (Germany) – Elk – 2019
55- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Tule Elk, Rocky Mountain Elk – 2019
56- Serengeti-Park (Germany) – Elk – 2019
57- Taman Safari II Prigen (Indonesia) – Elk – 2024

An aesthetically pleasing Elk exhibit, labeled as Roosevelt Elk, can be found at Woodland Park Zoo (USA) in Seattle. However, there never seems to be more than 4 Elk in residence.

In the 435-acre/176-hectare free-roaming area at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA), there's always a large herd of Elk in residence.

@Pleistohorse

The drive-through at Wildlife Safari (USA) in southern Oregon has a large Elk herd:

Does Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) still have this Elk habitat? It's interesting to see the mock-rock around the pond. Milwaukee adores mock-rock.

@pachyderm pro

The huge prairie exhibit for Elk at North Carolina Zoo (USA) is many acres in size and superb for the species.

@OkapiFan

Elk, American Bison, White-tailed Deer and Wild Turkey were all together when I toured Baton Rouge Zoo (USA) in 2010 in a very simple, bland yard.

Labeled as Rocky Mountain Elk, the species is at Dakota Zoo (USA):

A Rocky Mountain Elk and an American Bison, along with some Canada Geese, all taking a dip together at Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA).

@Milwaukee Man

Elk love to hit the water everywhere, including at Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park & Wildlife Safari (USA).

@Brayden Delashmutt

Lots of zoos combine American Bison with Elk, such as Pueblo Zoo (USA) in Colorado:

My photo from Amarillo Zoo (USA) in Texas shows Pronghorn, American Bison and Elk all together in 2015:

Outside the Elk exhibit at West Coast Game Park Safari (USA), there's a massive number of antlers and they form an impressive arch.

At Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA), there's a huge paddock for Elk:

Planckendael Zoo (Belgium) has a scenic Rocky Mountain Elk/American Bison paddock with a large pond:

@KevinB

There's a gargantuan set of antlers on this male Rocky Mountain Elk at Tierpark Hagenbeck (Germany):

@JigerofLemuria

Berlin Tierpark (Germany) had TWO Elk exhibits when I was there in 2019. There was one labeled as Tule Elk and the other as Rocky Mountain Elk, although Manitoba Elk is named on several photos in the gallery.

Tule Elk:

@Patrick87

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 24 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 57 Elk, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

 

[turkeyfox]

Does Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) still have this Elk habitat? It's interesting to see the mock-rock around the pond. Milwaukee adores mock-rock.

Indeed they do! Waterfowl also enjoy the mock-rock, that pool is usually full of wild ducks or geese just hanging out.

 

[ralph]

This thread is really reminding me of how many deer species there are around in zoos. You've seen even 1 more than I have, if my count is correct (I'm missing Calamanian, mule, and both species of red brocket, but I did see brown brocket, Yucatan brocket and Fea's muntjac)

Vietnamese sika deer are actually considered to be probably extinct in the wild, but that's a much less known fact than the story of the Pere David's deer. Perhaps because they're 'just' a subspecies.

American zoos are not the only one that have been phasing out white-lipped deer. Both Dutch zoos where I have seen this species, Rotterdam and Beekse Bergen, no longer keep the species.
I also once saw them in Wuppertal, a German zoo that no longer keeps them.
Luckily they are still around in Prague and Berlin, zoos I'll surely revisit. And I just saw them this year in Oberwald(Karlsruhe). Such a cool species, I hope they will stick around for the future.

 

[snowleopard]

For today, I'm going to look at FOUR more deer species.

I've seen Red Deer at 21 zoos. I've seen TWO species of Red Deer (Central Asian and Western) and almost half the zoos have been in Western Europe.

2019 = 8 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Red Deer – 1975
2- Langenberg Wildlife Park (Switzerland) – Red Deer – 2003
3- San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) – Red Deer (Barbary Deer) – 2006
4- San Diego Zoo (USA) – Red Deer (Barbary Deer) – 2008
5- Emperor Valley Zoo (Trinidad & Tobago) – Red Deer – 2008
6- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2010
7- Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
8- Cherokee Trace Drive-Thru Safari (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
9- Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
10- Wilderness Walk Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
11- Roscommon Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
12- Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
13- Wildpark Gangelt (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
14- Opel Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
15- Dortmund Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
16- Tiergehege Kaisergarten (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
17- Dierenrijk (Animal Kingdom) (Netherlands) – Red Deer – 2019
18- Beekse Bergen (Netherlands) – Red Deer – 2019
19- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Bokharan Red Deer, Barbary Red Deer – 2019
20- Olderdissen Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
21- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Red Deer – 2022

AND...

I've seen Western Roe Deer at only 3 zoos:

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Western Roe Deer – 1975
2- Dortmund Zoo (Germany) – Western Roe Deer – 2019
3- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Western Roe Deer – 2022

AND...

I've also seen Chinese Water Deer at only 3 zoos:

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Chinese Water Deer – 1975
2- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Chinese Water Deer – 1998
3- Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) – Chinese Water Deer – 2011

It's fascinating to see Red Deer and Scimitar-horned Oryx together at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA):

@geomorph

Even San Diego Zoo (USA) had Red Deer back in the day. Both San Diego parks listed their animals as Barbary Red Deer.

@Ituri

Red Deer have been at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (USA) for years and the zoo still maintains the species to this day. Here's a magnificent stag:

@Ituri

This big paddock at Opel Zoo (Germany) was home to Red Deer, labeled as Bactrian Red Deer, in 2019.

Bukhara Red Deer at Berlin Tierpark (Germany) in a stunning, natural-looking habitat.

@twilighter

And a Barbary Red Deer at Berlin Tierpark (Germany):

@twilighter

Red Deer can grow to be quite a large size, especially the big males, and so I was surprised to see a walk-through exhibit for this species at Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) in 2022. It's a LOT of walking just to see a handful of deer.

As for Western Roe Deer, Dortmund Zoo (Germany) combines them with White Storks:

@ralph

And zoo nerd @pipaluk saw a Western Roe Deer in a backyard!

@pipaluk

As for Chinese Water Deer, here's a fawn at Whipsnade Zoo (England). Would this be a free-roaming specimen without a specific exhibit?

@Tim May

Here's a photo of a Chinese Water Deer at Berlin Zoo (Germany) from 2020, but I did not see any when I toured that zoo the previous year. This looks like an image taken in nature.

@Therabu

Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) had Chinese Water Deer mixed with Blue Cranes when I first visited the zoo in 2011. That was the last time I ever saw this rare deer species and here's my photo of the spacious exhibit:

And a great close-up of one of the deer:

@Giant Eland

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 28 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 57 Elk, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Red Deer (TWO species: Central Asian + Western), 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 3 Chinese Water Deer, 3 Western Roe Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

 

[Lafone]

For today, I'm going to look at FOUR more deer species.

I've seen Red Deer at 21 zoos. I've seen TWO species of Red Deer (Central Asian and Western) and almost half the zoos have been in Western Europe.

2019 = 8 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Red Deer – 1975
2- Langenberg Wildlife Park (Switzerland) – Red Deer – 2003
3- San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) – Red Deer (Barbary Deer) – 2006
4- San Diego Zoo (USA) – Red Deer (Barbary Deer) – 2008
5- Emperor Valley Zoo (Trinidad & Tobago) – Red Deer – 2008
6- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2010
7- Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
8- Cherokee Trace Drive-Thru Safari (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
9- Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
10- Wilderness Walk Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
11- Roscommon Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
12- Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
13- Wildpark Gangelt (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
14- Opel Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
15- Dortmund Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
16- Tiergehege Kaisergarten (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
17- Dierenrijk (Animal Kingdom) (Netherlands) – Red Deer – 2019
18- Beekse Bergen (Netherlands) – Red Deer – 2019
19- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Bokharan Red Deer, Barbary Red Deer – 2019
20- Olderdissen Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
21- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Red Deer – 2022

AND...

I've seen Western Roe Deer at only 3 zoos:

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Western Roe Deer – 1975
2- Dortmund Zoo (Germany) – Western Roe Deer – 2019
3- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Western Roe Deer – 2022

AND...

I've also seen Chinese Water Deer at only 3 zoos:

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Chinese Water Deer – 1975
2- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Chinese Water Deer – 1998
3- Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) – Chinese Water Deer – 2011

It's fascinating to see Red Deer and Scimitar-horned Oryx together at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA):

@geomorph

Even San Diego Zoo (USA) had Red Deer back in the day. Both San Diego parks listed their animals as Barbary Red Deer.

@Ituri

Red Deer have been at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (USA) for years and the zoo still maintains the species to this day. Here's a magnificent stag:

@Ituri

This big paddock at Opel Zoo (Germany) was home to Red Deer, labeled as Bactrian Red Deer, in 2019.

Bukhara Red Deer at Berlin Tierpark (Germany) in a stunning, natural-looking habitat.

@twilighter

And a Barbary Red Deer at Berlin Tierpark (Germany):

@twilighter

Red Deer can grow to be quite a large size, especially the big males, and so I was surprised to see a walk-through exhibit for this species at Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) in 2022. It's a LOT of walking just to see a handful of deer.

As for Western Roe Deer, Dortmund Zoo (Germany) combines them with White Storks:

@ralph

And zoo nerd @pipaluk saw a Western Roe Deer in a backyard!

@pipaluk

As for Chinese Water Deer, here's a fawn at Whipsnade Zoo (England). Would this be a free-roaming specimen without a specific exhibit?

@Tim May

Here's a photo of a Chinese Water Deer at Berlin Zoo (Germany) from 2020, but I did not see any when I toured that zoo the previous year. This looks like an image taken in nature.

@Therabu

Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) had Chinese Water Deer mixed with Blue Cranes when I first visited the zoo in 2011. That was the last time I ever saw this rare deer species and here's my photo of the spacious exhibit:

And a great close-up of one of the deer:

@Giant Eland

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 28 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 57 Elk, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Red Deer (TWO species: Central Asian + Western), 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 3 Chinese Water Deer, 3 Western Roe Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

Have been spending a lot of time photographing Chinese water deer lately and what a fascinating animal.

The Whipsnade CWD are not free to roam all over the zoo like the wallabies / Mara, though they have had a wander about on occasion. They are mainly seen in two places, one lot sharing with the Rhino, Blesbok etc in the main paddock at the top of the zoo. Second in the Passage Through Asia drive through, where they end up on both sides of the cattle grid and fence so mingle with the camels and horses on one side and the other deer on the other.

 

[NNM.]

Even San Diego Zoo (USA) had Red Deer back in the day. Both San Diego parks listed their animals as Barbary Red Deer.

At this point I'm convinced there isn't a single non-cetacean mammal that hasn't been in the San Diego Zoo at at least one point.

 

[PossumRoach]

At this point I'm convinced there isn't a single non-cetacean mammal that hasn't been in the San Diego Zoo at at least one point.

The Kipunji.

‘Nuff said

 

[Tim May]

As for Chinese Water Deer, here's a fawn at Whipsnade Zoo (England). Would this be a free-roaming specimen without a specific exhibit?

There are free-ranging Chinese water deer at Whipsnade but the one depicted here was not a free-roaming animal; it was one of a group of fawns that were being hand-reared and they were housed in a small enclosure opposite the hippos.

 

[FrederickA]

The Montgomery Zoo one makes me wish more zoos had a savannah type exhibit for Asian species.

 

[Dassie rat]

At this point I'm convinced there isn't a single non-cetacean mammal that hasn't been in the San Diego Zoo at at least one point.

There are some orders of mammals that haven't been in San Diego Zoo

 

[Dassie rat]

Why are white-lipped deer and other large rare ungulates being phased out at zoos, while large rare carnivores are being kept at more zoos? If large ungulates can't be reintroduced into the wild, there is little hope for large carnivores, as they are harder to reintroduce and need to have suitable prey.

 

[snowleopard]

After looking at FOUR species yesterday, it's going to be only one today. However, we are near the end of Cervidae and the largest species will be this penultimate post. Tomorrow will be my 30th and final species in this family and I'll also take a brief look at Musk-deer as well.

I've seen Moose at 24 zoos:

2019 = 6 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Moose – 1975
2- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Moose – 1998
3- Langenberg Wildlife Park (Switzerland) – Moose – 2003
4- Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA) – Moose – 2005
5- Calgary Zoo (Canada) – Moose – 2006
6- B.C. Wildlife Park (Canada) – Moose – 2006
7- Minnesota Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2008
8- Toronto Zoo (Canada) – Moose – 2008
9- Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (USA) – Moose – 2008
10- Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2010
11- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2010
12- Yellowstone Bear World (USA) – Moose – 2014
13- Dakota Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2014
14- Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2014
15- Natuurpark Lelystad (Netherlands) – Moose – 2019
16- Pairi Daiza (Belgium) – Moose – 2019
17- Safari Parc Monde Sauvage (Belgium) – Moose – 2019
18- Wildpark Gangelt (Germany) – Moose – 2019
19- ZOOM Erlebniswelt (Germany) – Moose – 2019
20- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Moose – 2019
21- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Moose – 2022
22- Ree Park Safari (Denmark) – Moose – 2022
23- Kolmarden Wildlife Park (Sweden) – Moose – 2022
24- Kristiansand Zoo (Norway) – Moose – 2022

Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) had a very large, acre or two sized Moose enclosure for many years, before the species was phased out in favour of more Elk. There's actually a Moose in this photo, resting on the right-hand side. The most recent photos of a Moose at this zoo are all by me in 2010.

Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA) has a fantastic Moose statue at the zoo's entrance, as well as several Moose in the 435-acre/176-hectare drive-through tram area.

Moose have been a part of Calgary Zoo (Canada) for decades, but in an on-and-off fashion as the zoo has gone for years with not having the species at various times. Moose were back as of last summer:

The Northern Trail walking loop at Minnesota Zoo (USA) can allow visitors to see Moose in a semi-forested environment:

@Dhole dude

There's a nice pool inside the Moose habitat at Columbus Zoo (USA):

@Moebelle

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (USA) has a Moose exhibit within the Rocky Mountain Wild area:

@MGolka

There was a single, massive bull Moose inside this exhibit at Yellowstone Bear World (USA) when I toured the zoo in 2014. Most of the narrow enclosure was water.

At Dakota Zoo (USA), there's a walking loop with many spacious ungulate exhibits and that includes a forested Moose habitat.

Perhaps surprisingly, one of the very best Moose complexes I've seen is at Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA), with three yards for the species. This zoo has a terrific North American section in general. Here's my photo of one portion of the largest yard:

@Milwaukee Man

Of course, Pairi Daiza (Belgium) is a zoo with Moose, in the Canadian-themed Last Frontier area.

Both photos via @KevinB

I saw a mama Moose and youngster at Safari Parc Monde Sauvage (Belgium) in 2019:

The Moose exhibit at ZOOM Erlebniswelt (Germany) is not huge, but it's very aesthetically pleasing and a well-designed exhibit in terms of combining shade and water.

@FunkyGibbon

I saw perhaps 3 Moose and a few Mouflon together at Berlin Tierpark (Germany) in 2019 in what is a massive paddock.

When I toured Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) in 2022, I saw three Moose all hanging out together in the shade (a photo is in the gallery) and I spent a nice time inside the 2.5-acre/1-hectare habitat. Just like this zoo's 6-acre Polar Bear exhibit and 6-acre Brown Bear exhibit, there's a boardwalk that allows visitors to walk through the areas and look out on the mammals. It's a spectacular facility.

At Ree Park Safari (Denmark) I saw SIX Moose in one exhibit! My photo shows 3 Moose, but there was definitely six and the enclosure is huge. Very few zoo nerds make it to Scandinavia, but they don't mess around up there and have monstrously-sized zoo exhibits.

The 30-minute Gondola ride at Kolmarden Zoo (Sweden) is amazing if you like that sort of thing, and I saw a couple of Moose while riding high in the sky. There's a lot of cold-weather mammals on that ride, but also a ton of African ungulates as well.

I saw two Moose at Kristiansand Zoo (Norway) in 2022, off in the distance inside their multi-acre exhibit that is like a slice of the wild. Nordic Wilderness is a 40-acre/16-hectare chunk of the zoo that has only SIX species.

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 29 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 57 Elk, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 24 Moose, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Red Deer (TWO species: Central Asian + Western), 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 3 Chinese Water Deer, 3 Western Roe Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

 

[pachyderm pro]

After looking at FOUR species yesterday, it's going to be only one today. However, we are near the end of Cervidae and the largest species will be this penultimate post. Tomorrow will be my 30th and final species in this family and I'll also take a brief look at Musk-deer as well.

I've seen Moose at 24 zoos:

2019 = 6 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Moose – 1975
2- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Moose – 1998
3- Langenberg Wildlife Park (Switzerland) – Moose – 2003
4- Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA) – Moose – 2005
5- Calgary Zoo (Canada) – Moose – 2006
6- B.C. Wildlife Park (Canada) – Moose – 2006
7- Minnesota Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2008
8- Toronto Zoo (Canada) – Moose – 2008
9- Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (USA) – Moose – 2008
10- Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2010
11- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2010
12- Yellowstone Bear World (USA) – Moose – 2014
13- Dakota Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2014
14- Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA) – Moose – 2014
15- Natuurpark Lelystad (Netherlands) – Moose – 2019
16- Pairi Daiza (Belgium) – Moose – 2019
17- Safari Parc Monde Sauvage (Belgium) – Moose – 2019
18- Wildpark Gangelt (Germany) – Moose – 2019
19- ZOOM Erlebniswelt (Germany) – Moose – 2019
20- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Moose – 2019
21- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Moose – 2022
22- Ree Park Safari (Denmark) – Moose – 2022
23- Kolmarden Wildlife Park (Sweden) – Moose – 2022
24- Kristiansand Zoo (Norway) – Moose – 2022

Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) had a very large, acre or two sized Moose enclosure for many years, before the species was phased out in favour of more Elk. There's actually a Moose in this photo, resting on the right-hand side. The most recent photos of a Moose at this zoo are all by me in 2010.

Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA) has a fantastic Moose statue at the zoo's entrance, as well as several Moose in the 435-acre/176-hectare drive-through tram area.

Moose have been a part of Calgary Zoo (Canada) for decades, but in an on-and-off fashion as the zoo has gone for years with not having the species at various times. Moose were back as of last summer:

The Northern Trail walking loop at Minnesota Zoo (USA) can allow visitors to see Moose in a semi-forested environment:

@Dhole dude

There's a nice pool inside the Moose habitat at Columbus Zoo (USA):

@Moebelle

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (USA) has a Moose exhibit within the Rocky Mountain Wild area:

@MGolka

There was a single, massive bull Moose inside this exhibit at Yellowstone Bear World (USA) when I toured the zoo in 2014. Most of the narrow enclosure was water.

At Dakota Zoo (USA), there's a walking loop with many spacious ungulate exhibits and that includes a forested Moose habitat.

Perhaps surprisingly, one of the very best Moose complexes I've seen is at Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA), with three yards for the species. This zoo has a terrific North American section in general. Here's my photo of one portion of the largest yard:

@Milwaukee Man

Of course, Pairi Daiza (Belgium) is a zoo with Moose, in the Canadian-themed Last Frontier area.

Both photos via @KevinB

I saw a mama Moose and youngster at Safari Parc Monde Sauvage (Belgium) in 2019:

The Moose exhibit at ZOOM Erlebniswelt (Germany) is not huge, but it's very aesthetically pleasing and a well-designed exhibit in terms of combining shade and water.

@FunkyGibbon

I saw perhaps 3 Moose and a few Mouflon together at Berlin Tierpark (Germany) in 2019 in what is a massive paddock.

When I toured Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) in 2022, I saw three Moose all hanging out together in the shade (a photo is in the gallery) and I spent a nice time inside the 2.5-acre/1-hectare habitat. Just like this zoo's 6-acre Polar Bear exhibit and 6-acre Brown Bear exhibit, there's a boardwalk that allows visitors to walk through the areas and look out on the mammals. It's a spectacular facility.

At Ree Park Safari (Denmark) I saw SIX Moose in one exhibit! My photo shows 3 Moose, but there was definitely six and the enclosure is huge. Very few zoo nerds make it to Scandinavia, but they don't mess around up there and have monstrously-sized zoo exhibits.

The 30-minute Gondola ride at Kolmarden Zoo (Sweden) is amazing if you like that sort of thing, and I saw a couple of Moose while riding high in the sky. There's a lot of cold-weather mammals on that ride, but also a ton of African ungulates as well.

I saw two Moose at Kristiansand Zoo (Norway) in 2022, off in the distance inside their multi-acre exhibit that is like a slice of the wild. Nordic Wilderness is a 40-acre/16-hectare chunk of the zoo that has only SIX species.

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 29 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 57 Elk, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 24 Moose, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Red Deer (TWO species: Central Asian + Western), 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 3 Chinese Water Deer, 3 Western Roe Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

I know you mentioned it in the mule deer post, but it is truly a shame that Milwaukee's moose enclosure is no more. In a zoo that suffered from severely dated infrastructure (and in many ways still does) that exhibit was the one truly great habitat Milwaukee had to offer. Obviously the elephants needed a new space for than anything and this was probably the only area large enough to accommodate that, but it's still sorely missed.

 

[Kudu21]

For today, I'm going to look at FOUR more deer species.

I've seen Red Deer at 21 zoos. I've seen TWO species of Red Deer (Central Asian and Western) and almost half the zoos have been in Western Europe.

2019 = 8 zoos

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Red Deer – 1975
2- Langenberg Wildlife Park (Switzerland) – Red Deer – 2003
3- San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA) – Red Deer (Barbary Deer) – 2006
4- San Diego Zoo (USA) – Red Deer (Barbary Deer) – 2008
5- Emperor Valley Zoo (Trinidad & Tobago) – Red Deer – 2008
6- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2010
7- Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
8- Cherokee Trace Drive-Thru Safari (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
9- Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (USA) – Red Deer – 2015
10- Wilderness Walk Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
11- Roscommon Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
12- Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2018
13- Wildpark Gangelt (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
14- Opel Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
15- Dortmund Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
16- Tiergehege Kaisergarten (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
17- Dierenrijk (Animal Kingdom) (Netherlands) – Red Deer – 2019
18- Beekse Bergen (Netherlands) – Red Deer – 2019
19- Berlin Tierpark (Germany) – Bokharan Red Deer, Barbary Red Deer – 2019
20- Olderdissen Zoo (Germany) – Red Deer – 2019
21- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Red Deer – 2022

AND...

I've seen Western Roe Deer at only 3 zoos:

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Western Roe Deer – 1975
2- Dortmund Zoo (Germany) – Western Roe Deer – 2019
3- Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) – Western Roe Deer – 2022

AND...

I've also seen Chinese Water Deer at only 3 zoos:

1- Alberta Game Farm/Polar Park (Canada) – Chinese Water Deer – 1975
2- Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Chinese Water Deer – 1998
3- Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) – Chinese Water Deer – 2011

It's fascinating to see Red Deer and Scimitar-horned Oryx together at San Diego Zoo Safari Park (USA):

@geomorph

Even San Diego Zoo (USA) had Red Deer back in the day. Both San Diego parks listed their animals as Barbary Red Deer.

@Ituri

Red Deer have been at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (USA) for years and the zoo still maintains the species to this day. Here's a magnificent stag:

@Ituri

This big paddock at Opel Zoo (Germany) was home to Red Deer, labeled as Bactrian Red Deer, in 2019.

Bukhara Red Deer at Berlin Tierpark (Germany) in a stunning, natural-looking habitat.

@twilighter

And a Barbary Red Deer at Berlin Tierpark (Germany):

@twilighter

Red Deer can grow to be quite a large size, especially the big males, and so I was surprised to see a walk-through exhibit for this species at Scandinavian Wildlife Park (Denmark) in 2022. It's a LOT of walking just to see a handful of deer.

As for Western Roe Deer, Dortmund Zoo (Germany) combines them with White Storks:

@ralph

And zoo nerd @pipaluk saw a Western Roe Deer in a backyard!

@pipaluk

As for Chinese Water Deer, here's a fawn at Whipsnade Zoo (England). Would this be a free-roaming specimen without a specific exhibit?

@Tim May

Here's a photo of a Chinese Water Deer at Berlin Zoo (Germany) from 2020, but I did not see any when I toured that zoo the previous year. This looks like an image taken in nature.

@Therabu

Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park (USA) had Chinese Water Deer mixed with Blue Cranes when I first visited the zoo in 2011. That was the last time I ever saw this rare deer species and here's my photo of the spacious exhibit:

And a great close-up of one of the deer:

@Giant Eland

Order Artiodactyla:

Antilocapridae: 1 species (30 zoos with Pronghorn)

Camelidae: 2 species (27 zoos with Guanaco, 18 Vicuna)

Cervidae: 28 species so far - (78 zoos with Reeves's Muntjac, 63 White-tailed Deer, 61 Common Fallow Deer, 57 Elk, 56 Caribou/Reindeer, 41 Axis Deer, 37 Sika Deer, 30 Mule Deer, 23 Javan Rusa Deer, 21 Red Deer (TWO species: Central Asian + Western), 21 Southern Red Muntjac, 20 Hog Deer, 20 Pere David's Deer, 19 Sambar Deer, 17 Tufted Deer, 14 Barasingha, 12 Eld's Deer, 8 Bawean Deer, 6 White-lipped Deer, 4 Northern Red Muntjac, 4 Persian Fallow Deer, 4 Philippine Spotted Deer, 3 Calamian Deer, 3 Chinese Water Deer, 3 Western Roe Deer, 2 Mexican Red Brocket Deer, 1 Common Red Brocket Deer)

Delphinidae: 7 species (15 zoos with Common Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin, 3 Killer Whale, 3 Pacific White-sided Dolphin, 1 Commerson's Dolphin, 1 False Killer Whale, 1 Short-finned Pilot Whale)

Giraffidae: 5 species (175 zoos with Giraffe (4 species), 31 Okapi)

Hippopotamidae: 2 species (65 zoos with Common Hippo, 44 Pygmy Hippo)

Iniidae: 1 species (1 zoo with Amazon River Dolphin)

Monodontidae: 1 species (7 zoos with Beluga Whale)

Phocoenidae: 1 species (3 zoos with Harbour Porpoise)

Suidae: 8 species (65 zoos with Red River Hog, 51 Warthog, 24 Babirusa, 17 Visayan Warty Pig, 17 Wild Boar, 6 Bearded Pig, 3 Javan Warty Pig, 1 Bushpig)

Tayassuidae: 3 species (33 zoos with Collared Peccary, 17 Chacoan, 4 White-lipped)

Tragulidae: 4 species (13 zoos with Lesser Indo-Malayan Chevrotain, 9 Javan, 7 Greater Indo-Malayan, 2 Balabac)

Bactrian/Bukhara “red” deer are, of course, no longer considered to be subspecies of the red deer, but rather of the hangul (Cervus hanglu), a more recently established species that is comprised of the Central Asian Cervus deer (Bactrian, Kashmir, Yarkand).

 

[turkeyfox]

6- Milwaukee County Zoo (USA) – Red Deer – 2010

Do you know which exhibit the red deer were in? Were they with the elk in the North American area or were they in with the Bactrian Camels? I'm not sure where else they could have been. In any case it was a very temporary holding.

 

[birdsandbats]

Do you know which exhibit the red deer were in? Were they with the elk in the North American area or were they in with the Bactrian Camels? I'm not sure where else they could have been. In any case it was a very temporary holding.

They had them in place of the elk for several years in the late 2000s and early 2010s.