ZooChat Challenge Global 2020

[TNT]

If monotremes count, then I have another addition:

Paignton Zoo - 02/01/2019

2. Short-beaked Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus.

Shaldon Wildlife Trust - 03/01/2020

3. Brush-tailed bettong, Bettongia penicillata.

 

[birdsandbats]

There are several other cuscus and opossum species (especially woolly) floating around in private - some could go on exhibit.

I'm aware of those but was only counting species that are on-exhibit.

Saint Louis Zoo 1/2/20

1. Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus h. harrisii
2. Matschie's tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus matschiei
3. Red kangaroo, Macropus rufus
4. Tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii

When did they get the wallaby?

 

[ThylacineAlive]

My suggestion would be to have winners for Global, Australasia, and "Other" - regardless of how many different countries a person visited, they could easily still break their totals into the three categories (sort of like how some of the challenges have been able to be broken down into mammals, birds, reptiles, etc). So in FunkyGibbon's scenario he could still win in the "Other" category even if he had visited Australia. If he played his cards right, he could win all three categories.

Fair enough, this will be how we play then

~Thylo

 

[jayjds2]

I'm aware of those but was only counting species that are on-exhibit.

When did they get the wallaby?

They’ve had the wallaby for as long as I can remember visiting the zoo... over 10 years.

 

[birdsandbats]

They’ve had the wallaby for as long as I can remember visiting the zoo... over 10 years.

Well there were none during my visits in 2018.

 

[jayjds2]

Well there were none during my visits in 2018.

Perhaps you didn't look hard enough then as there was at least one present for all of mine that year.

 

[birdsandbats]

Perhaps you didn't look hard enough then as there was at least one present for all of mine that year.

No signage for it, at least. I would like to think I didn't miss it but it is completely possible I did.

 

[Chlidonias]

Fair enough, this will be how we play then

...and also there should be a New Zealand category.

Global, Australasia, Other, and New Zealand. Or you could just call that last category Chlidonias. Anybody with the user-name Chlidonias can win the last one.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

...and also there should be a New Zealand category.

Global, Australasia, Other, and New Zealand. Or you could just call that last category Chlidonias. Anybody with the user-name Chlidonias can win the last one.

Ok so official changes:
-Everyone is eligible to win all challenges but you can only count species you've seen within a region for that challenge.
-We have a new separate challenge called the Chlidonias challenge and only he may win it

~Thylo

 

[Chlidonias]

-We have a new separate challenge called the Chlidonias challenge and only he may win it

Imagine if I still didn't win it. How embarrassing.

 

[Mbwamwitu]

Given lifespans you might well be too late, or close to it!

This scared me so much I went and did it...

3. Common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)

 

[Brum]

Imagine if I still didn't win it. How embarrassing.

You have no idea how tempted I was to make an account called "ChlidoniasUK" and register, just to prove you should have stuck to a New Zealand category and not been so egocentric as to try and get your own category!

 

[birdsandbats]

You have no idea how tempted I was to make an account called "ChlidoniasUK" and register, just to prove you should have stuck to a New Zealand category and not been so egocentric as to try and get your own category!

I almost made one called "Childonias".

 

[Chlidonias]

You have no idea how tempted I was to make an account called "ChlidoniasUK" and register, just to prove you should have stuck to a New Zealand category and not been so egocentric as to try and get your own category!

I was hoping you would and then I could ban you for sock-puppetry. The ultimate in snubs for Brum.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I almost made one called "Childonias".

If a girl made an account would it be "Chlidonimiss"?

Don't boo me I name the winner.

~Thylo

 

[TeaLovingDave]

If a girl made an account would it be "Chlidonimiss"?

Nah, it would be Chlidonilass

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Nah, it would be Chlidonilass

Only if she's from Scotland.

If Brum's account gets banned then we'll be one Chlidoniless

~Thylo

 

[TeaLovingDave]

Only if she's from Scotland.

Lass is also a valid term in northern England

 

[jayjds2]

Only if she's from Scotland.

If Brum's account gets banned then we'll be one Chlidoniless

~Thylo

His account Chlidoniwas great while it lasted

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Lass is also a valid term in northern England

I was hoping you'd say, "no that'd be the ChlidoniNess"

~Thylo