Bengal Tiger
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Baby animals
What is the coolest animal to see at the zoo?
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ParathePineapple
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Okapi, Tapir, Bongo, Babirusa, Dik-Dik, Duiker, Muntjac, and Pudu are some of my personal favorite ungulates. Non-Ungulates I am big fans of include Smaller cats: Sand, Pallas, Servals, etc, Bichirs, Patagonian Maras, Capybara, Ratites, Anteaters, Sloths, and just about any reptile.
Fanfin anglerfish
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All animals but animals in small creature houses (reptile houses mammal houses insect houses) have a special place in my heart. Looking at the southwest snakes and spiders at the Phoenix zoo to walking down the reptile walk and looking a5 the reptile house at the san diego zoo is so cool.
Oh wow, that's incredible!
Love all of your answers.
This is gonna sound mundane compared to the others you have already listed but Vancouver Island marmot. Yeah they are basically just a groundhog so nothing special or super cool. But they are incredibly rare with something like 400 left on Mount Washington on Vancouver Island (and some nearby peaks). I dont live in British Columbia so my chances of seeing one in the wild is non existent. Toronto Zoo does house them but they are also kept off display in a tightly quarantined breeding barn. However I did get lucky one day when I was visiting the health center and they were working on one of the marmots. I actually got to see them pick him or her up and put it on the table for some X Rays. Out side of the staff who work in their barn, the vet crew and the volunteers standing there with me and my friend there arent too many other people who live in Ontario, or really the rest of Canada, much less the world, who can say they have scene a Vancouver Island marmot in person. Feels like I'm in a very small and exclusive club of maybe a couple thousand who can say that. I could totally be wrong but I don't care.
I have also pet an Indian rhino and that is a highlight of my life. Super rare or cool? Guess it depends on ones definition but having them wrap that top lip around your hand is so cool and get to pet them. Kiran even drooled on me which sounds gross but I own a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog so drool is my life so I was cool with it.
I do think Matschie's tree kangaroos and Southern hairy nosed wombats are cool. Their are less than 40 tree kangaroos in North America so they are pretty unique and rare. There are less then 12 wombats I believe and I have been blessed enough to see a young joey. I do feel blessed to have been raised my whole life being able to see both species in Toronto. The Tasmanian devils were cool too but the other two have my heart.
This is gonna sound mundane compared to the others you have already listed but Vancouver Island marmot. Yeah they are basically just a groundhog so nothing special or super cool. But they are incredibly rare with something like 400 left on Mount Washington on Vancouver Island (and some nearby peaks). I dont live in British Columbia so my chances of seeing one in the wild is non existent. Toronto Zoo does house them but they are also kept off display in a tightly quarantined breeding barn. However I did get lucky one day when I was visiting the health center and they were working on one of the marmots. I actually got to see them pick him or her up and put it on the table for some X Rays. Out side of the staff who work in their barn, the vet crew and the volunteers standing there with me and my friend there arent too many other people who live in Ontario, or really the rest of Canada, much less the world, who can say they have scene a Vancouver Island marmot in person. Feels like I'm in a very small and exclusive club of maybe a couple thousand who can say that. I could totally be wrong but I don't care.
I have also pet an Indian rhino and that is a highlight of my life. Super rare or cool? Guess it depends on ones definition but having them wrap that top lip around your hand is so cool and get to pet them. Kiran even drooled on me which sounds gross but I own a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog so drool is my life so I was cool with it.
I do think Matschie's tree kangaroos and Southern hairy nosed wombats are cool. Their are less than 40 tree kangaroos in North America so they are pretty unique and rare. There are less then 12 wombats I believe and I have been blessed enough to see a young joey. I do feel blessed to have been raised my whole life being able to see both species in Toronto. The Tasmanian devils were cool too but the other two have my heart.
I agree with @Neil chace that many of the coolest animals to see are those I haven't seen before or those I haven't seen in a long time.
If I were to pick just one group of animals though, it would be gibbons. Primates in general interest me, but gibbons just interest me more than the other species. There's just something about watching them brachiate around their enclosures that amazes me, and being able to hear siamang calls from halfway across a zoo is something I will never forget.
If I were to pick just one group of animals though, it would be gibbons. Primates in general interest me, but gibbons just interest me more than the other species. There's just something about watching them brachiate around their enclosures that amazes me, and being able to hear siamang calls from halfway across a zoo is something I will never forget.
Okapi, tapirs, all big cats, bears, wild canines, hyenas, rhinos, gibbons, marabou storks, scarlet ibis, rhinoceros hornbills, all crane species, large monitor lizards, crocodylians, poison dart frogs, tangs/surgeonfish, triggerfish, lionfish, all species of sharks and rays.