The following species in the United States

ungulate nerd

ungulate nerd

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Are there any of the following species in zoos, aquariums and wildlife parks in the united states and has there ever been any of the following species in captivity in the united states, like most Zoochatters, I have a very strong interest in animals and zoos and I would like to know the history of these animal species in zoos, aquariums or wildlife parks in the united states

Visayan spotted deer
Carpathian red deer
Manitoba elk
Manchurian wapiti
Spanish red deer
Mischies tufted deer
Black muntjac
Marsh deer
European moose
European roe deer
Siberian roe deer
Mountain anoa
Gayal
Four horned antelope
Golden takin
Tadjik urial
Macro polo argali
Cyprian mouflon
Putorana snow sheep
Altai argali
Bokharan argali
Sumatran serow
Amur goral
Red goral
Mountain gazelle
Chinkara gazelle
Balabac chevrotain
Vicuna (didn't San Diego have them ???)
Cokes hartebeest
Salts dik dik
Southern grysbok
Selous zebra
Mongolian wild ass
Red forest duiker
Syrian brown bear
Sri lankan leopard
Javan leopard
Carpathian lynx
Altai lynx
Indian desert cat
Yellow mongoose
Indian gray mongoose
Slender mongoose
Ring tailed mongoose
Gambian mongoose
Narrow striped mongoose
Japanese badger
Crab eating raccoon
Iberian wolf
Chacma baboon
White naped mangabey
Hecks macaque
Quagga (Extinct so none right now, but has there ever been any ???)
Ussuri sika deer
Caspian red deer
Thai elds deer
Indochinese hog deer
Philippine brown deer
Kashmir stag
Mountain nyala
Apennine chamois
Himalayan goral
Himalayan serow
Water chevrotain
Indian spotted chevrotain
Beira antelope
Indian wild ass
Cape mountain zebra
Crawshays zebra
Pygmy hog
Indian wild boar
Javan warty pig
Caspian wild boar
Anatolian wild boar
South china tiger
Marsh mongoose
Erlangers gazelle
Arabian tahr
Guiana tucuxi
 
The only one that I know that has one of those species presently is the Bronx Zoo with 1.1 Ring-Tailed Mongooses.
 
Water Chevrotain = The Bronx Zoo held a specimen between June 1949 and December 1952 (which is said to be the captive longevity record)
 
Some of these are likely to be found in Lee Crandall's book 'The Management of wild Mammals in Captivity'. Suggest you read it.
 
MikeG said:
Water Chevrotain = The Bronx Zoo held a specimen between June 1949 and December 1952 (which is said to be the captive longevity record)
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It is worth adding that Bronx Zoo actually received seven water chevrotains on 15th June 1949; two were sent to Chicago soon afterwards, the other five remaining in New York. As Mike has mentioned, the specimen that died in New York on 31st December 1952 is still considered to hold the longevity record, sixty years later.

BeardsleyZooFan said:
The only one that I know that has one of those species presently is the Bronx Zoo with 1.1 Ring-Tailed Mongooses.
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I saw ring-tailed mongooses in the National Zoo, Washington, during the 1980s.

FBBird said:
Some of these are likely to be found in Lee Crandall's book 'The Management of wild Mammals in Captivity'. Suggest you read it.
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Agreed; this excellent book would be the first place I’d search for such information. It is essential reading for anybody seriously interested in zoos. I’m rather busy this evening but, over the next few days, I’ll check to see if it provides any details about the other species on the original list.

ungulate nerd said:
Where can i buy or at least find this book ?
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There are copies of Lee Crandall’s “The Management of Wild Mammals in Captivity” for sale on-line at Abe books.

EDIT Just noticed your original list includes mountain nyala; none have been kept in the USA. Berlin Zoo, during the 1930s, is the only collection to have exhibited this antelope.
 
I've just had a look, some of these species are recorded, but I won't spoil your fun. One of the best books you'll ever read.
 
From your list, the following forms are recorded in Crandall's book as being kept in the US up to 1964:
Japanese Badger, Gayal, Manchurian Wapiti, European Roe Deer, Four-horned anteloipe, Marco Polo Argali, Red forest Duiker, Indian Gray Mongoose, Marsh Mongoose, Crab-eating Racoon, Cape Mountain Zebra, Kashmir Stag, Alpine Chamois, Water Chevrotain, Indian Spotted Chevrotain, Chacma Baboon, White-naped Mangabey, Vicuna, Coke's Hartebeest

Ussuri Sika Deer were kept if that's the same animal as Dybowski's Sika.

The following are not definitely stated to have been imported to the US, but may have been:
Tajik Urial, Indian Wild Ass, Thai Eld's Deer, Southern Grysbok, Selous Zebra, Mongolian Wild Ass, Altai Argali, Bokharan Argali, Balabac Chevrotain

None of the others on your list is recorded as being kept in the USA up to 1964.

You may be interested to know two species not on your list, that did reasonably well at the Bronx in days gone by, were Platypus & Thylacine. You'll have to get hold of the book for more details.

As an ungulate buff, you might enjoy 'The Years of Transition' by one of the Dukes of Bedford. About a third of the book is devoted to the many ungulate species that lived at Woburn. If you can get hold of any of the London zoo 'Lists of the Animals' from the 19th century, they are a mine of information about what was kept & bred in London 150 years ago. Ungulates did particularly well in very restriced quaters on hard standing --no grass, no parasites.
 
I didn't have time yesterday but I had intended to help answer the original question by providing some details from Crandall’s book this evening; however FBBird has pre-empted me.

It might be worth mentioning that another useful book for listing early zoo animals in the USA is “Wild Animals in and out of the Zoo” (William M. Mann; 1930); this is volume 6 of the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

The appendix provides a list of all the species held at Washington Zoo between 1890 and 1929. It also lists the longevity record for each species at the zoo and supplies a list of all species born there.

I have a copy of this book but I believe that the full text is available on-line.
 
FBBird, I cannot thank you enough, you yourself are a wealth of information, In fact i am looking into buying that book !!!
 
Tim: thank you, I sat up half the night reading that book on line. Great fun, but the wife thought I had died.
Ungulate: you're welcome
Anybody else here got any goodies about zoo history that I can access online?
 
There are no black muntjacs and golden takins exported from China, as I know. The red gorals had only been exported to Holland, and the south China tigers had only been exported to USSR, and maybe Eastern Germany.
 
baboon said:
There are no...golden takins exported from China, as I know.
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Golden Takins [called 'Shensi Takin' on Zootierliste] were exported from China in 2002 to Liberec Zoo (Czech Republic). They can now also be seen in Berlin Tierpark and Bojnice Zoo (Slovakia).
 
MikeG said:
Golden Takins [called 'Shensi Takin' on Zootierliste] were exported from China in 2002 to Liberec Zoo (Czech Republic). They can now also be seen in Berlin Tierpark and Bojnice Zoo (Slovakia).
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There is also a single male at Chomutov (or at least there was in August!).
 
baboon said:
There are no black muntjacs and golden takins exported from China, as I know. The red gorals had only been exported to Holland, and the south China tigers had only been exported to USSR, and maybe Eastern Germany.
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The Zoo that had Red gorals was Rotterdam Zoo, and according to Zootierlsite there were Black muntjacs at the Halle Zoo, and also in some canadian zoo or american zoo, but i do not know which zoo, and also according to Zootierlsite there were South china tigers at zoos in Ukraine, Russia, Czech republic, and at Tierpark Berlin and Cologne Zoo, anyways I hope this information helps !!!
 
I seem to remember the Los Angeles Zoo exhibiting Crab Eating Raccoons back in the 1960s, but that's not a positive. Michael, a former curator there could probably be more precise.
 
Blackduiker said:
I seem to remember the Los Angeles Zoo exhibiting Crab Eating Raccoons back in the 1960s, but that's not a positive. Michael, a former curator there could probably be more precise.
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I vaguely recall crab-eating FOXES, but I could be way off on that....
 
Los Angeles had crab eating foxes and raccoon dogs in the seventies. San Diego Zoo had a red goral in the late sixties and early seventies, I'm not sure how long it lived. I took photos of it in 1971 or early 72.
I have a number of duplicate zoo/ nature books, pm me if you are interested.
 
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