Species we have lost over the last quarter of a century

ralph said:
Apenine chamois.

Just visited Hellabrunn for the first time. Was really looking forward to seeing this species, but they're all gone.

Species is now extinct in captivity it seems.

And I just missed my chance at seeing them. :(
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Wait they are gone? I hadn’t been to Hellabrunn since the 17th of last month and they were still there. I should have went to say goodbye for one more time…

twilighter said:
Such a sad news... I saw tree animals not long ago. The species is still present at few zoos in France and Spain, but the subspecies was unique.
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I don’t know what you mean by not too long ago but I have only seen two individuals ever since my first visit back in December. So one may have passed on since your visit.
 
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PossumRoach said:
Wait they are gone? I hadn’t been to Hellabrunn since the 17th of last month. I should have went to say goodbye for one more time…


I don’t know what you mean by not too long ago but I have only seen two individual ever since my first visit back in December. So one may have passed on since your visit.
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Sorry, around year ago.
 
Yes they're gone for sure. I didn't see them, and noticed there was no signage for them. So I asked the keepers and they confirmed they're gone. Pity, I might have missed them by a few weeks.
 
ralph said:
Yes they're gone for sure. I didn't see them, and noticed there was no signage for them. So I asked the keepers and they confirmed they're gone. Pity, I might have missed them by a few weeks.
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I did check ZTL and Hellabrunn was listed under former holdings.
 
I think the Cape fox deserves a mention in this thread as well!
The last individual in a zoo worldwide died in Plzen in 2024.
I'm happy I got to see the species a few times. I sincerely doubt I will ever get to see it again.
 
ralph said:
I think the Cape fox deserves a mention in this thread as well!
The last individual in a zoo worldwide died in Plzen in 2024.
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Dragonstone Ranch in Texas was recently mentioned as an owner of Cape foxes here on Zoochat. Probably doesn´t pass as a zoo. But if the species is in private trade in the US, it might pop-up at exhibit somewhere again.

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I saw a Cape fox at the Milan Zoo in 1983. I also saw a model of a Tanystropheus at the nearby Natural History Museum
 
Jana said:
Dragonstone Ranch in Texas was recently mentioned as an owner of Cape foxes here on Zoochat. Probably doesn´t pass as a zoo. But if the species is in private trade in the US, it might pop-up at exhibit somewhere again.

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There's always a possibility.
Although, I'm not sure if I want it to pop up in zoos again if the origin of the species is some sort of obscure private owner that gets their animals from the wild.
 
ralph said:
There's always a possibility.
Although, I'm not sure if I want it to pop up in zoos again if the origin of the species is some sort of obscure private owner that gets their animals from the wild.
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Isn’t that how some small mammals pop up in zoos?
 
Several weeks ago marks the end of the last pygmy killer whale in captivity. Mu passed away in the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. He lived at the facility for 10 years.

A few months ago, the only otter civet in a zoo died as well. He lived in Batu Secret Zoo in Indonesia for a few years, becoming a main attraction shortly after the death of the last western long-beaked echidna. Both species are now lost in captivity.
 
Sicarius said:
Several weeks ago marks the end of the last pygmy killer whale in captivity. Mu passed away in the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. He lived at the facility for 10 years.

A few months ago, the only otter civet in a zoo died as well. He lived in Batu Secret Zoo in Indonesia for a few years, becoming a main attraction shortly after the death of the last western long-beaked echidna. Both species are now lost in captivity.
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Neither of them were in Europe, however ;)
 
dillotest0 said:
I do wonder if these were truly Pavonine at all.
I recall I read recently a book published in 2000 in regards to quetzals and trogons, and the book’s taxonomy is interesting - it chooses to classify, if I recall correctly, the golden headed quetzal as a subspecies of Pavonine quetzal - and the crested quetzal as a subspecies of resplendent quetzal.
I recall also that a zoo in Italy around 2014 got golden headed quetzals… which it labelled Pavonine. I wonder if this was for the same reason…
So if this logic is applied, it could be that those held at Wuppertal were in fact golden headed after all!
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MikeG said:
I believe this to be the case. The true Pavonine has an orange-red bill, yellow towards its tip; the Golden-headed has an all-yellow bill. I remember specifically examining the last male at Wuppertal and finding his bill to be entirely yellow. I think the zoo labelled their birds as being Pavonine because the bird curator was following a taxonomy that viewed Golden-headed as a subspecies of Pavonine.
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I have found this picture of a quetzal at Wuppertal.
Feel free to cast your verdict!
 

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I just realized there are no more Rufous elephant shrews (Galegeeska rufescens) in zoos, neither in Europe or elsewhere.

I'm glad I still got to see the species twice in the last 3 years, in Dusseldorf in 2022 and Frankfurt in 2023.

They are wonderful animals and they'll be missed!
 
We have lost the last kori bustard (Ardeotis kori) in European zoos according to ZTL.
I saw one of the last ones in Duisburg before it sadly pas away.
The last one probably past away in late 2024

They are a very stunning bird species, that I'm very glad to have seen.
 
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