What animals would you have liked to see but can't because they were only held for a short time?

[DaLilFishie]

For me it would have been the goblin shark at Tokyo Sea Life Park. It only lived for three days and was long dead when I found out that they had one.

 

[RatioTile]

Central Park Zoo had a Kagu around 2011 or so, but in 2014 when I went a keeper said they had given it away.

 

[DavidBrown]

The vampire squid at the Monterey Aquarium. AUGGGHHHH.

 

[DaLilFishie]

The vampire squid at the Monterey Aquarium. AUGGGHHHH.

How could I have forgotten about that! It would have been amazing to see. IIRC they don't have their flapjack octopuses anymore either, the only ones outside of Asia.