THE BIGGEST COLLECTION OF..............

CGSwans said:
With 31 species in their collection, they lead the next best Australian institutions (Perth on 24, then Healesville and Currumbin on 23) by a country mile. I'm willing to say with 99.9999% confidence there is no zoo outside of Australia that can top this. Halls Gap Zoo has the widest collection of marsupial species in the world.
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It certainly sounds impressive - I hope that a) you aren't just being paid by them to promote the zoo ;) :p and b) the enclosures are worthy of the collection! A look online found the following list:

Tasmanian Devil
Dingo
Feathertail Glider
Squirrel Glider
Spinifex Hopping-Mouse
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo
Red Kangaroo
Western Grey Kangaroo
Koala
Common Brushtail Possum
Common Ringtail Possum
Northern Quoll
Eastern Quoll
Spotted-tailed Quoll
Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
Parma Wallaby
Red-neck Wallaby
Swamp Wallaby
Tammar Wallaby
Tammar Wallaby SA Mainland
Agile Wallaby
Common Wombat
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Bilby
Red-tailed Phascogale
Red-bellied Pademelon
Long-nosed Potoroo
Brush-tailed Bettong
Southern Brown Bandicoot
 
Pertinax said:
I could call my house 'World Spider Centre' but it still doesn't actually mean its got the biggest collection of Spiders in the World- its a meaningless title IMO.
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Fair point and it's probably exactly why Twycross chose the title, it infers kudos, quality, import and (I think) comprehensiveness but in reality it's so vague they can't be easily/legally challenged on it.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
It certainly sounds impressive - I hope that a) you aren't just being paid by them to promote the zoo ;) :p and b) the enclosures are worthy of the collection! A look online found the following list:

Tasmanian Devil
Dingo
Feathertail Glider
Squirrel Glider
Spinifex Hopping-Mouse
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo
Red Kangaroo
Western Grey Kangaroo
Koala
Common Brushtail Possum
Common Ringtail Possum
Northern Quoll
Eastern Quoll
Spotted-tailed Quoll
Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
Parma Wallaby
Red-neck Wallaby
Swamp Wallaby
Tammar Wallaby
Tammar Wallaby SA Mainland
Agile Wallaby
Common Wombat
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Bilby
Red-tailed Phascogale
Red-bellied Pademelon
Long-nosed Potoroo
Brush-tailed Bettong
Southern Brown Bandicoot
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The dingo is not a marsupial
 
I know that - the above is the list of all their mammals.
 
Not quite all. The website is presumably a little behind their census and plan listings.

Enclosures are not brilliantly immersive or anything like that, but nor are there any to be ashamed of. Halls Gap Zoo was until recently one of the many small, private wildlife parks that dot the Australian landscape and are mostly unaccredited by the ZAA (by choice). It is in the process of being transformed into one of Australia's 3 or 4 most significant regional zoos.
 
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As for being paid to promote the zoo - I am a freelance writer, I take the accusation of advertorial very seriously! ;) Definitely not paid by HGZ. But I do travel nearly 250km one-way every three or four months for a visit.
 
^ I think that that would be fair?:)
Port lympne, largest collection of Black Rhino, how many are there at the park?
Largest collection of venemous snakes-is this correct for the whole world or just Europe?
 
Dvur Kralove possibly has the largest hoofed stock collection.
On a smaller scale I was in Prague a couple of weeks ago and they have twenty six species of Laughing -Thrushes and this year have bred from fourteen of them.
 
A point to Toddy since the African Dwarf Crocodile was split there are now 24 or 25 crocodile species, St Augustine has osborni but i think is still one short of the lot.Cat-man the largest collection of reptiles,probably including venomous snakes, is Tula Exotarium in Russia.Pinkback-did you go behind the scenes at Prague?I heard that they have three male Lears Macaws plus a young pair of Shoebills.Largest collection of hornbills-surely Jurong?
 
Largest collection of ramphastids...Dallas World Aquarium, also manikins probably hummingbirds too.
 
Largest variety of rattlesnakes - American International Rattlesnake Museum (Albuquerque USA).

And I can't believe someone posted Le Parc Des Felins (for cats) before I got to - that is just rude. :p
 
No one has posted bears yet. There are only 8 species (I think) - does any place have them all? Is San Diego Zoo the closest (with 6 or 7)?

Also, what about wild dogs? Someone has mentioned hyenas, but what about true dogs? In America, The Living Desert is pretty good but I doubt they have the most in the world.
 
I did not go behind the scenes on this trip to Prague, so I don,t know about the Lears macaws. Sometime ago I saw the Shoebills when they where off exhibit in quarantine, at the time there where six.
Now they have a pair on show in a new range of wetland aviaries, but I don,t know if they still have any others.
 
Berlin has all except American Black[rare in Europe] but Tierpark Berlin has those.Canids? i really couldnt say but there are quite a number of foxes not in captivity at all.World Owl Centre in Britain has 49 taxa..thats a lot of owls to beat[ive noticed they arent very popular in US zoos]
 
Thanks Pinkback..Leipzig wanted Shoebills for Gondwanaland but the stork TAG were against the idea [after all we wouldnt want a large charismatic species in european zoos would we?] so theyve gone for Yellow-billed Storks.Nice to see some collections thinking outside of the box.
 
Unfortunately the ones thinking outside the box are buying wild caught birds, which in the case of shoebills mostly die in the hands of the trappers long before they reach a zoo.
 
Actually most captive Shoebills are hand-reared chicks, hence one of the problems with captive breeding.As only one captive-bred individual has ever survived as yet,i presume you would go with the p.c. lobby.. which probably now means Balaeniceps rex is an extinct zoo species.I dont go for crates of dead birds at animal dealers but quite frankly current protocol is going to see less and less avian species in zoos to a point that may be critical in 15 years time.
 
Somewhere around Israel, or in that general global vicinity, a safari park has a group of 50 hippopotamus apparently.
 
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