ocellated_eelpout
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I wish more zoos and aquaria would have deep-sea displays with Clione limacina
Species You Wish More Zoos Would Keep
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I believe the main issue with keeping Clione is feeding - they are hyperspecialists, only feeding on a single species of pteropod, Limacina helicina, and will only eat them live. Dead prey will be ignored. As such, an aquarium wishing to keep Clione must either:
1. Culture Limacina helicina
2. Be able to get in shipments of live Limacina helicina
Both of these are difficult to do.
I hear some Japanese aquariums get around this issue by simply not feeding their Clione. Clione have slow metabolisms and can survive for many months without feeding. So, they simply let them starve, and when the Clione eventually drop dead, they put new ones on display.
This and many other events are the reason why Japan doesn't have state of the art zoos and aquariums...
Charles
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My list
1) Okapi
2) Pygmy Hippo
3) Duiker
4) Manatees/Dugongs
5) Sumatran Laughing Thrush
6) Javan green magpie
7) Philippine Eagle
8) Wombat
9) Golden lion tamarin
10) Malayan Tapir
11) Hyacinth Macaw
12) Greater one horned rhino
13) Blesbok
14) Mandarin Duck
15) Rhinoceros Hornbill
1) Okapi
2) Pygmy Hippo
3) Duiker
4) Manatees/Dugongs
5) Sumatran Laughing Thrush
6) Javan green magpie
7) Philippine Eagle
8) Wombat
9) Golden lion tamarin
10) Malayan Tapir
11) Hyacinth Macaw
12) Greater one horned rhino
13) Blesbok
14) Mandarin Duck
15) Rhinoceros Hornbill
Charles
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Not in my local zoo's and in the ones i've visited in the UK there aren't manyDon’t we already have a fair few of these.
I like how your list contain very common animal and very rare one
Just for future reference, this is how many collections the following are held at in Europe:
1) Okapi - 26
2) Pygmy hippo - 73
3) Duiker spp. - 21 (mind you I do actually agree on this one)
4) Manatees - 10 /Dugongs - 0
5) Sumatran laughingthrush - 27
6) Javan green magpie - 5 (also agree here)
7) Philippine eagle - 0
8) Wombat spp. - 9
9) Golden lion tamarin - 72
10) Malayan tapir - 25
11) Hyacinth macaw - 97
12) Indian rhino - 31
13) Blesbok - 54
14) Mandarin duck - 480
15) Rhinoceros hornbill - 24
Quite apart from wanting more Mandarin ducks in captivity, you'd be hard pressed to fit more Mandarin ducks in zoos...
Charles
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I just haven’t seen any in captivity, maybe just coincidence
A trip to London Zoo would polish off over half of those, so that's where I'd recommend for you
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Charles
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I did see the okapi and Pygmy hippo at london, wasn’t lucky enough to see the duiker, but overall I would like to see them in more zoos, especially as Bristol doesn’t and won’t have Pygmy hippos anymoreA trip to London Zoo would polish off over half of those, so that's where I'd recommend for you
Ryan Blackwood
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I think more UK zoos should have beavers and Hyraxes
Aswell as Toucans, they should be in much more zoos like Lotherton
Aswell as Toucans, they should be in much more zoos like Lotherton
I think Guira Cuckoo would be nice for more zoos to have.
If we can't have a real hoatzin in the zoo, I'm perfectly happy seeing those instead.
Somehow they look very similar.... part of me thinks they could be related but of course this would be heavily disputed!
If we can't have a real hoatzin in the zoo, I'm perfectly happy seeing those instead.
Somehow they look very similar.... part of me thinks they could be related but of course this would be heavily disputed!
@dillotest0, Guira Cuckoos are decently common in the U.S, but I suppose one can see the appeal of them from a European perspective.
I wish more AZA zoos would display different Cervidae, in particular South American and South Asian species.
I, as I'm sure many, would love to see more deer diversity in the US, but unfortunately to most visitors they are just "deer." I feel like making Asian grassland exhibits would help with South Asian diversity, but I doubt we'll ever get South American diversity in the AZA because the only Cervidae from South American readily available are pudu, and the only others kept (brockets) are extremely rare.
Not exactly a new species, but more American holders of the Black-and-Rufous Sengi would be very welcome, for obvious reasons. 
That's true, it's the same reason for the vast homogenization of ungulates in the AZA, which I loath. Fortunately some non-AZA places still hold some species otherwise absent.