The only collection in the UK that you can see a.....

zoogiraffe

zoogiraffe

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Well seeing as nobody has started this yet after seeing Kiangs comment in the Australian part of the forum,thought I would get the ball rolling!

Colchester Zoo is the only place in the UK that you can see the following species,
Chaco Chachalaca (Ortalis canicollis)
Feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus)
Giant plated lizard (Gerrhosaurus validus)
Luzon rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax hydrocorax)
Northern Black Colobus (Colobus guereza caudatus)
Orangutan(no subspecies-status) (Pongo pygmaeus)
Silvered Leaf-monkey (Trachypithecus cristatus)
Slender-snouted crocodile (Crocodylus cataphractus)
Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla longicaudata)
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
Sumatran Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros rhinoceros)
 
I'll do the obvious:

Pandas at edinburgh ;)

Polar bears at HWP. Am I right in thinking that their new musk oxen are unique too.
 
mazfc said:
I'll do the obvious:

Pandas at edinburgh ;)

Polar bears at HWP. Am I right in thinking that their new musk oxen are unique too.
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Well the Giant Panda and Musk Ox certainly are,as for the Polar Bear depends if you cound Heythrop which does have open days so this Bear can be seen!!
 
Yes the Musk Oxen are unique to HWP.

A few others-;
Blackpool- Arabian Gazelle
Blackpool- Magellanic Penguin
Chessington- Persian Leopard
Dartmoor- Syrian brown Bear*

* I am right in saying Dartmoor have a female Syrian brown bear?
 
Short-Beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus-Paignton.
Arabian striped hyena Hyaena sultana-Twycross.
Brown hyena Parahyaena brunnea- Port Lympne.
Sri Lankan Sloth bear Melursus ursinus inornatus- Whipsnade.
 
Great thread.

Here's a few random ones:-

Belfast -Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
Edinburgh -Koala
Slimbridge -James Flamingo
Twycross -Crowned Guenon/Yellow Throated Marten
Exmoor -Tayra
Howletts -Ratel/African Wildcat
Hamerton -Oncilla
Woburn -American Black Bear
Thrigby -Mugger

I'll stop for a breather, as it'd be easy to get carried away, type a long list and find out other people had mentioned them while I'd been typing.
 
Blackbrook Zoo is the only place that the following can be seen,

American eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri)
American white ibis (Eudocimus albus)
Asian open-billed stork (Anastomus oscitans)
Australian Sarus Crane (Grus antigone gillae)
Australian wandering whistling duck (Dendrocygna arcuata australis)
Bare-faced go-away bird (Corythaixoides personatus)
Berlioz's silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera berliozi)
Black-headed Ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus)
Black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis)
Buff-necked ibis (Theristicus caudatus)
Eastern greylag goose (Anser anser rubrirostris)
Faeroe eider duck (Somateria mollissima faeroeensis)
Gambel white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons gambeli)
Giant Canada goose (Branta canadensis maxima)
Greater siren (Siren lacertina)
Jankowski's swan (Cygnus columbianus jankowskii)
Javan pond-heron (Ardeola speciosa)
Lineated Kalij (Lophura nycthemera lineata)
Magellanic steamer duck (Flightless steamer duck) (Tachyeres pteneres)
Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado)
Moffitt's Canada goose (Branta canadensis moffitti)
Mottled duck (Anas fulvigula)
Mrs Hume's pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae)
Northern Eider (Somateria mollissima borealis)
Pacific eider duck (Somateria mollissima v-nigrum)
Pale-bellied brent goose (Branta bernicla hrota)
Peruvian Pelican (Pelecanus thagus)
Roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja)
Scintillating cooper pheasant (Syrmaticus soemmerringii scintillans)
Squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides)
Tundra Bean Goose (Anser fabalis rossicus)
Tundra Bean Goose (Anser fabalis serrirostris)
Vancouver Canada goose (Branta canadensis fulva)
West Mexican Chachalaca (Ortalis poliocephala)
White-crested kalij (Lophura leucomelanos hamiltonii)
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
 
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Exmoor - new guinea singing dog?
Cotswolds - Greater bamboo lemur
Linton - White collared lemur?

Amazon world- prehensile tailed porcupine, plate billed mountain toucan

Port lympne- black footed cats , golden bellied mangabey

Howletts- hecks macaque, banded and mitred langur
 
Exmoor Zoo- Fanaloka
Paignton- Nine-banded armadillo (?)
Living Coasts- Pigeon guillemot, tufted puffin, red-legged kittiwake, bank cormorant
 
Whipsnade- gaur

London - grey slender loris, Panay cloud rat, austrailian water rat ( not 100% on that1)

Curraghs wildlife park- marsh mongoose
 
Al said:
Exmoor - new guinea singing dog?
Cotswolds - Greater bamboo lemur
Linton - White collared lemur?

Amazon world- prehensile tailed porcupine, plate billed mountain toucan

Port lympne- black footed cats , golden bellied mangabey

Howletts- hecks macaque, banded and mitred langur
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Greater Bamboo Lemurs are also at Port Lympne (or were pre-rearrangement); Prehensile-tailed Porcupine also at Cotswold. :)
 
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