Species that you would like to see in UK zoos

James w said:
I did raptor work for about a year. Done the harpies at Berlin...other choice..Philippine eagle. 2 collections. And vanishing ..them harpies and crowned eagles Are the closest we have to the extinct haast eagle..rip..
Great topic
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Technically speaking the closest we have to the extinct Haast Eagle would be the Little Eagle and Booted Eagle :P

Batto said:
Well, off to Austria with you then, padawan...;) @TeaLovingDave will tell you which train stop not to miss. :D
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Or, indeed, which train stop is actually a request-stop and will therefore be skipped if you don't press the correct button and blithely stand by the train doors waiting for the train to stop :P
 
I'd love to see:

West Indian Manatee
Beaver(in more zoos)
Duck Billed Platypus
Tasmanian Devil
Harpy eagle
Baird's tapir
Nine Banded Armadillo(in more zoos)
Sumatran Rhino
Coyote
Kakapo
Atlantic Puffin
 
One bird which I've seen before in Europe I'd like/love to see in the UK is the lammergeier.
I don't usually talk about animals of any kind like this, so excuse me, but ....

They're so damn cool!!
The fantastic colouring of their beak and eyes!
The only obligate osteophage!
The only bird capable of digesting bones!
And that's when they've thrown their bones off a mountain slope and shattered it on the cold, hard, floor!
The only bird that dyes itself bright red beause that's a cool thing to do!
Even the name itself......lammergeier!

Such a cool bird and I have to go to the continent to see it? Unreasonable! They do well in captivity there and I don't see why they wouldn't do well here. At least with kiwi you can pay the sum and see Manu with your own eyes... but lammergeier you can't see anywhere in the country unless it's a vagrant!
It hurts me deeply!!
 
dillotest0 said:
One bird which I've seen before in Europe I'd like/love to see in the UK is the lammergeier.
I don't usually talk about animals of any kind like this, so excuse me, but ....

They're so damn cool!!
The fantastic colouring of their beak and eyes!
The only obligate osteophage!
The only bird capable of digesting bones!
And that's when they've thrown their bones off a mountain slope and shattered it on the cold, hard, floor!
The only bird that dyes itself bright red beause that's a cool thing to do!
Even the name itself......lammergeier!

Such a cool bird and I have to go to the continent to see it? Unreasonable! They do well in captivity there and I don't see why they wouldn't do well here. At least with kiwi you can pay the sum and see Manu with your own eyes... but lammergeier you can't see anywhere in the country unless it's a vagrant!
It hurts me deeply!!
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I believe there *are* a handful in private hands within the UK, so it isn't out of the question - and had the pandemic and associated costs not led to the closure of Newent ICBP to the public, the one there would have already been an option.
 
Ditto lammergeier, I loved seeing the Thomsons gazelle in Valencia, would be nice to see true west african giraffes too.

My dream zoo animals for the UK would definitely be emperor and adelie penguins, walruses and some kind of cetacean, either pacific white sided dolphin, beluga or orca. Although on that last point I recall reading a few years back that UK regulations on keeping cetaceans made it financially unfeasable.
 
dillotest0 said:
One bird which I've seen before in Europe I'd like/love to see in the UK is the lammergeier.
I don't usually talk about animals of any kind like this, so excuse me, but ....

They're so damn cool!!
The fantastic colouring of their beak and eyes!
The only obligate osteophage!
The only bird capable of digesting bones!
And that's when they've thrown their bones off a mountain slope and shattered it on the cold, hard, floor!
The only bird that dyes itself bright red beause that's a cool thing to do!
Even the name itself......lammergeier!

Such a cool bird and I have to go to the continent to see it? Unreasonable! They do well in captivity there and I don't see why they wouldn't do well here. At least with kiwi you can pay the sum and see Manu with your own eyes... but lammergeier you can't see anywhere in the country unless it's a vagrant!
It hurts me deeply!!
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I have just seen a promotional video for the falconry at Warwick Castle and a Lammergeier was clearly seen flying :)
 
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