Species you wish your local zoo(s) still have.

Auckland Zoo

Polar bear
Brown bear
American black bear
Jaguar
Puma
Timber wolf
California sea lion*
New Zealand fur seal*
Temminck’s golden cat*
North American porcupine
Chinese red panda
Common chimpanzee*
Chacma baboon*
African elephant**
Common hippopotamus*
Rothschild’s giraffe*
Grant’s zebra*
Arabian camel
Llama*
Barbary sheep
Giant anteater
Red kangaroo*
Common wombat

* = phased out species I saw at Auckland Zoo (versus species I’m aware they used to have but never saw)

** = I’m kind of cheating by including Africa elephant because they only had one for three months during 1983 (a young calf died shortly after arrival)
 
Edmonton Valley Zoo
  • Green Aracari
  • Grey Crowned Crane
  • Golden/Amherst Pheasant
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Channel Billed Toucan
  • Aldabra Tortoise
  • Pygmy Hippo
  • Red Fronted Lemur
  • Red Ruffed Lemur
  • Fat Tailed Dwarf Lemur
  • Spider Monkey
  • Swift Fox
  • Addax
  • Patagonian Sea Lion
 
Allwetterzoo Münster

Yellow-throated marten

Asian golden cat

Muenster yellow-toothed cavy (it was literlly named after the city, it realy belongs tothe zoo)

syrian brwon bears ( I know there enclosure was terrible and iam glad that the last one has a better home now, and the sun bears in münster too. But I realy liked this sub species.

I don't know the fate of thee animals of the old tropical house, which will soo be replaced by a newer and better one. But with the new south america theming, some species I liked like the luzon bleedng heart or the Eurasian spoonbill









 
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo:
Hippopotamus
Siamang
Polar Bear
Black-footed Cat
Wolf’s Guenon
African Penguin
Sugar Glider
Frilled Neck Lizard
Hamadryas Baboon
Spur-winged Goose
Bactrian Camel
Kowari

Cincinnati Zoo:
Lion-tailed Macaque
Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Shoebill
Takin
Sumatran Rhino
Visayan Warty Pig
Indian Rhino
Japanese Macaque

Akron Zoo:
Sun Bear
Sloth Bear
 
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Noah Butas said:
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo:
Hippopotamus
Siamang
Polar Bear
Black-footed Cat
Wolf’s Guenon
African Penguin
Sugar Glider
Frilled Neck Lizard
Hamadryas Baboon
Spur-winged Goose
Bactrian Camel
Kowari

Cincinnati Zoo:
Lion-tailed Macaque
Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Shoebill
Takin
Sumatran Rhino
Visayan Warty Pig
Japanese Macaque

Akron Zoo:
Sun Bear
Sloth Bear
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I thought that Cincinnati still had their warty pigs in the old Indian rhino paddock in rhino reserve?
 
Looking on the forums, Detroit seems to have had a lot of species they phased out over the years.
  • Meerkat: I remember seeing them where the Sloth is now.
  • Hippopotamus: I remember seeing them. Did they demolish the habitat?
  • Sichuan Takin: They were behind the Camels.
  • Lion-Tailed Macaque: This would have been cool to see
  • White-Handed Gibbon: I didn't know these were at Detroit.
  • Southern Pudu: This is the one i remember most about.
  • African Wild Dog: I would have loved to see these.
  • Syrian Brown Bear: Where were these?
  • Bush Dogs: Did they phase these out recently?
  • Scimitar-Horned Oryx: Did they ever keep this species?
  • Przewalski's Wild Horse: I barely remember these.
 
PlaZooFan14 said:
Looking on the forums, Detroit seems to have had a lot of species they phased out over the years.
  • Meerkat: I remember seeing them where the Sloth is now.
  • Hippopotamus: I remember seeing them. Did they demolish the habitat?
  • Sichuan Takin: They were behind the Camels.
  • Lion-Tailed Macaque: This would have been cool to see
  • White-Handed Gibbon: I didn't know these were at Detroit.
  • Southern Pudu: This is the one i remember most about.
  • African Wild Dog: I would have loved to see these.
  • Syrian Brown Bear: Where were these?
  • Bush Dogs: Did they phase these out recently?
  • Scimitar-Horned Oryx: Did they ever keep this species?
  • Przewalski's Wild Horse: I barely remember these.
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The Aardvark exhibit was combined with the old hippo pool fairly recently. I’m guessing the Syrian brown bears where exhibited in one of the old bear grottos, and yes, their last bush dog passed away earlier this year.
 
Noah Butas said:
Why does every lion-tailed macaque go away
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CheeseChameleon2007 said:
They get phased out: Like many, Many, species. Do a little poking around before coming to a conclusion.
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They are being phased out individually by zoos because the entire population is elderly and there are no young animals to replace those that die. However, that is not a planned phaseout - zoos stopped breeding them for a time because of changes in exhibit planning and concerns over herpesvirus, and by the time the mistake was realized the population was already in a state of demographic free fall. Only fix now would be with imports from abroad (which has been recommended by the relevant oversight panel and breeding program), which only one zoo has so far done.

Here is where the information has been posted on the forum previously: News from the Animal kingdom [Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park]

Westcoastperson said:
It's the same reason we won't see Asiatic Black Bear in a few years. People just aren't interested so they get phased out
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That is incorrect. Asiatic Black Bears were slated for phaseout because there was not enough room to accommodate four viable populations of tropical bear species and their population was less viable than sloth (another Asian species) and Andean bears. I suspect that the average visitor likes bears and does not much care what kind they are, besides polar bears and giant pandas.
 
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Coelacanth18 said:
That is incorrect. Asiatic Black Bears were slated for phaseout because there was not enough room to accommodate four viable populations of tropical bear species and their population was less viable than sloth (another Asian species) and Andean bears. I suspect that the average visitor likes bears and does not much care what kind they are, besides polar bears and giant pandas.
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Just wondering where you got that information because now I'm interested in why they are phasing out this species.
 
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