The only zoo in the United States to see...

Gladys Porter zoo - Jentink's duiker
Capital of Texas zoo - fanaloka
San Diego seaworld - Guadaloupe fur seal
San Diego zoo - tree pangolin, Talaud red and blue lory
Houston zoo - St Vincent amazon
Henry Doorly zoo - Raccoon dog?????
Fort Wayne children's zoo - Javan gibbon (on public display)
Central park zoo - Chinese merganser
 
kiang said:
Gladys Porter zoo - Jentink's duiker
Capital of Texas zoo - fanaloka
San Diego seaworld - Guadaloupe fur seal
San Diego zoo - tree pangolin, Talaud red and blue lory
Houston zoo - St Vincent amazon
Henry Doorly zoo - Raccoon dog?????
Fort Wayne children's zoo - Javan gibbon (on public display)
Central park zoo - Chinese merganser
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It would appear that Zoo Atlanta and Red River Zoo have raccoon dog as well.

More for:
San Diego Zoo: kagu, African forest buffalo, Vietnamese giant flying squirrel
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo: dingo
Sea World San Diego: short-finned pilot whale
Zoo Boise: southern Idaho ground squirrel
 
Ituri- I think Naples Zoo also has dingoes out on their Planet Predator show.
Also, geladas for Bronx Zoo.
 
As of this week:

Atlanta Botanical Garden: Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog

Thought to be the last place to see it on the planet.
 
These are the ones that spring to mind first:

Cincinnati Zoo- Sumatran Rhinoceros (until LA puts Harapan on display), Banded Palm Civet, Aardwolf, Razo Island Skink, Whiskered Auklet, Least Auklet

Columbus Zoo- Tiger Quoll
 
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Toledo Zoo - white headed vulture
Palm Beach Zoo - Red headed vulture
Georgia Aquarium - Whale Shark, Manta Ray
Monterey Bay Aquarium - Tuna
Sea World San Diego - Emporer penguin
 
devilfish said:
As of this week:

Atlanta Botanical Garden: Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog

Thought to be the last place to see it on the planet.
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but unfortunately you'll have to be quick:
Loneliest frog in the world is the last of his kind - Mirror Online
18 Feb 2012

A Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog is the loneliest little amphibian in the world after the only other one of his kind croaked it.

There were believed to be just two left on Earth after a fungus killed off their species in the wild.

But zoo officials in Atlanta in the US said it had to put down one frog due to ill health.

That leaves just one remaining example of the species, living in the botanical garden in Atlanta.

Amphibian populations are declining around the world and some of the last survivors of Central America’s once rich diversity of frogs now exist only in captivity.

The species was identified by Zoo Atlanta's herpetology curator Joseph Mendelson during a 2005 trip to Panama.

He hopes that they can preserve genetic material from the deceased frog to help to study the species.

He said: “Had the frog passed away overnight when no staff members were present, we would have lost any opportunity to preserve precious genetic material.

“To lose that chance would have made this extinction an even greater tragedy in terms of conservation, education and biology.”

The Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog has not been observed in the wild since 2007 and is believed to be extinct.

Zoo Atlanta is a leader in the effort to combat the crisis of global amphibian decline.
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San Diego Safari Park: Northern white rhinos
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Great white shark (seasonal)
Los Angeles/Sacramento Zoos: Yellow-billed magpies
Sacramento Zoo: Giant garter snake
 
bowie said:
elephants seals anywhere?
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Occasionally the San Francisco Zoo has a northern elephant seal as a rehab animal. There is a rehab facility for injured marine mammals across the Golden Gate bridge in Marin and they get injured elephant seals (The Marine Mammal Center : Home). Most of the animals get released back into the wild, but unreleasable animals hopefully get homes in zoos.

The Marine Mammal Center is open for tours, so I suppose if no other institutions have elephant seals then they might be considered the only one that does (at least until they are all released). It is a cool place and recommended to anyone visiting the Bay Area with the time and interest.

Even better perhaps are the wild colonies of northern elephant seals that can be seen at Ano Nuevo State Park about an hour south of San Francisco or further down the coast near Hearst Castle where a colony lives on a beach directly adjacent to the Pacific Coast Highway.
 
Here is another facility in Southern California, that on occasion rescues baby Elephant Seals, that is open daily for free tours. I've seen young Elephant Seals rehabbing here during a couple of local television news spotlights; probably from the Channel Islands:

Marine Mammal Care Center
 
Isn't there (at least) a third zoological institution - SeaWorld San Diego - that occasionally exhibits rescued Northern Elephant Seals? I thought I have read about that somewhere and have seen a young one in the middle of the 1990ies there.

By the way: Did anyone else notice that California seems to be clearly the No 1 state in this category?
 
zoomaniac said:
Isn't there (at least) a third zoological institution - SeaWorld San Diego - that occasionally exhibits rescued Northern Elephant Seals? I thought I have read about that somewhere and have seen a young one in the middle of the 1990ies there.
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There was a young rescue animal when I was there in 1998. There used to be a photo in the gallery but it has gone walkabout! :D
 
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