Zoo animals you want to see but haven't yet

I've had near misses too. Paid $$ to swim with whale sharks in Ningaloo, they were otherwise engaged unfortunately. Consolation prize of a manta swimming past two metres in front of me almost made up for it though.

I saw a basking shark just outside the harbour of picture 2 in the latest guess the place competition, just a fin and a shadow because the water was like ovaltine
 
Pygathrix said:
I saw a basking shark just outside the harbour of picture 2 in the latest guess the place competition, just a fin and a shadow because the water was like ovaltine
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Basking sharks are lovely creatures.

Chlidonias said:
this thread has sort of veered wildly off course hasn't it.....
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A tad. :eek:

Back on-topic.....

To complete my list of bears, I need American Black and Sloth.

I have the complete list of native UK mustelids, but to complete the list of UK mustelids in general I need American Mink. Have LOTS of mustelids I want to see in general.

I'd love to get rusty-spotted cat, black-footed cat, leopard cat, colocolo/pampas cat, kodkod, puma, bobcat, canada lynx and iberian lynx.

As already mentioned, in terms of big cats I only need the Sunda Clouded Leopard - fat chance there!
 
Pygathrix said:
I would like to follow in Maguari's recent footsteps and see all three species of douc langur.
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Sadly, a la Jerez and the Iberian Lynx, they don't show people the Black-shanked at Cuc Phuong so I'm still one off there too!
 
I think you might be able to fit the entire world population of kakapo into a blue whale's blowhole. Then make the whale sneeze and watch those kakapo learn to fly :D
Author's note: no animals were harmed during this thought experiment.

Alan
 
DavidBrown said:
Completely off course, but while we're on this trajectory how do wild blue whales stack up to kakapos?
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I do like blue whales and would love to see one* but it is just a big whale so kakapo still wins out over that (beaked whales are altogether more special, so they win over kakapo unless its one of the bottlenose whales because they are too commonly seen)



* a couple of years ago I was going to go out on one of the Akaroa Harbour (NZ) boats to see some Hector's dolphins but didn't get round to booking it, so thought "never mind, I'll just do it next week" -- and a blue whale was seen at the harbour mouth from the very boat trip that I would have been on if I'd booked it!!! Absolutely gutted :(
 
TeaLovingDave said:
As already mentioned, in terms of big cats I only need the Sunda Clouded Leopard - fat chance there!
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clouded leopards aren't really Big Cats but if you're going to include them then I've seen all the Big Cats myself (including Sunda clouded leopard at Lok Kawi in Borneo, 2009)
 
Chlidonias said:
clouded leopards aren't really Big Cats but if you're going to include them then I've seen all the Big Cats myself (including Sunda clouded leopard at Lok Kawi in Borneo, 2009)
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Oh, they are Big Cats - they just aren't big cats :P

Much like cheetahs and puma are Small Cats, but aren't small cats.
 
I guess I should probably make reference to my original post in this thread, back in November 2008:
Chlidonias said:
I couldn't list all the species I'd like to see one day because it would be far too long, but among them would be:
giant anteater
giant armadillo (well, any armadillo really)
yapok
hairy frog
Lake Titicaca frog
tarsier
aye-aye
otter civet
banded linsang
etc etc etc
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of those I have now seen exactly one in zoos (discounting the "etc etc etc"), namely western tarsier at Lok Kawi in Borneo, 2009.

I think I need a more realistic list.....
 
Chlidonias said:
I guess I should probably make reference to my original post in this thread, back in November 2008:

of those I have now seen exactly one in zoos (discounting the "etc etc etc"), namely western tarsier at Lok Kawi in Borneo, 2009.

I think I need a more realistic list.....
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A couple of those aren't so unrealistic in Europe. Large hairy armadillos aren't hard to come by, giant anteaters are just hard to see in their enclosures, and aye-ayes usually show well in the nocturnal houses they live in (I even saw them mating in Berlin (I don't no whether that's something to proud of though)).
 
well I'll see giant anteater at the River Safari in Singapore later this year/early next year. For armadillos and aye-aye I think I'll need to go to Europe. The others are a little harder....
 
Chlidonias said:
well I'll see giant anteater at the River Safari in Singapore later this year/early next year. For armadillos and aye-aye I think I'll need to go to Europe. The others are a little harder....
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Wouldn't Tokyo be easier for the aye-aye?
 
perhaps. There are also lots of other nice critters in Japan. Probably armadillos as well I expect. And its cheaper and easier to get to for me. Tokyo it is then.
 
Chlidonias said:
perhaps. There are also lots of other nice critters in Japan. Probably armadillos as well I expect. And its cheaper and easier to get to for me. Tokyo it is then.
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We need a decent review of Japanese zoos on here, just take the money out of the petty cash tin and we'll see you in 2 weeks.
 
kiang said:
We need a decent review of Japanese zoos on here, just take the money out of the petty cash tin and we'll see you in 2 weeks.
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there's only forty cents in the petty cash tin. I don't think I'll get far on that.
 
Chlidonias said:
there's only forty cents in the petty cash tin. I don't think I'll get far on that.
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Or visit Jersey and then you get more Aye-Aye then you can handle. Going there means that after 2 days you're like: what's in that enclosure? A just another Aye-aye.
 
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