No, they are not on this challenge. Looks like I just saved you from a load of optometrist bills
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No, they are not on this challenge. Looks like I just saved you from a load of optometrist bills
Lol, unfortunately not, off to buy new glasses next week!
May I ask why? Only because the majority of sources I can find suggest Red Pandas are primarily nocturnal/crepuscular (and they’re usually sleeping when I see them in zoos!).
Good luck on the glasses! My insurance just covered a new pair for me earlier this year
.As stated earlier in the thread:
Good luck on the glasses! My insurance just covered a new pair for me earlier this year
As stated earlier in the thread:
thanks for the reply! I must of missed that comment. I mistakenly thought this was all nocturnal species!
To be fair, at the end of the day, this is just one species, that everyone will get so it really makes no difference!
somehow forgot
4) Cheetah
Puxton Park 02.02.22
5) Crested Porcupine
6) Egyptian Spiny Mouse
7) Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
8) Wild Form Guinea Pig
continuing to fly along in this challenge
8) Wild Form Guinea Pig
continuing to fly along in this challenge
Well it's only been about a month!
Unfortunately, though, guineapigs are from the family Caviidae and are not eligible for the challenge.
~Thylo
Doh got carried away with my rodents! Apologies
Strix
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BEALE WILDLIFE PARK: 5th February
1. Six-Banded Armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
2. Common Genet (Genetta genetta)
3. Carpathian Lynx (Lynx lynx carpathicus)
4. Scottish Wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris)
5. South American Coati (Nasua nasua)
6. Tayra (Eira barbara)
7. Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus)
8. Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
1. Six-Banded Armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus)
2. Common Genet (Genetta genetta)
3. Carpathian Lynx (Lynx lynx carpathicus)
4. Scottish Wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris)
5. South American Coati (Nasua nasua)
6. Tayra (Eira barbara)
7. Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus)
8. Dwarf Crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
BANHAM ZOO (3) - 5/3/2022
29. Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)
30. Common Genet (Genetta genetta)
Yeah, it's taken me quite a few goes to see all the valid animals.
Second Zoo of the year:
London Zoo 04/02/22
14. Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat (Hypogeomys antimena)
15. Red-Necked Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
16. Grey Slender Loris (Loris lydekkerianus)
17. Moholi Bushbaby (Galago moholi)
18. Pygmy Hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis)
19. Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo leo)
20. Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica)
21. African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus)
22. Philippine Crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis)
23. Turquoise Dwarf Gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi)
Was a bit disappointed the potto was a no show, will have to go back for them! Also didn’t see the aye-ayes. I assume their enclosure is in the nocturnal section but didn’t see any signage. There was a small empty enclosure by the pottos though. Is that them? Missed the tamandua and the tenrec too!
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The aye aye are in an area at the end of the ring tailed lemur indoor housing corridor, not downstairs with most nocturnal species. The area next to the Potto exhibit is where they(potto) were held previously, last year nothing was in there. Tamandua are in the main rainforest area, tenrec were first exhibit on right in nocturnal area ( moonlight World) when I was there last year
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5 February Shepreth Wildlife Park
55 Pygmy Slow Loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus)
56 Ring tailed Coati (Nasua nasua)
57 W European hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus)
58 Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman ( Paleosuchus palpebrosus)
59 n African crested porcupine ( Hystrix cristata)
60 large hairy Armadillo (Chaetopractus villosus)
Couldn't hang around long enough to get the cloudies and genet, was just happy I managed to get the Armadillo, I usually struggle to see that!
Ah thank you for the info, will definitely go find them next time. The lemur walkthrough was closed so not sure if the indoor was accessible?
Yep, knew where the tamandua and tenrec were, just couldn’t see the tamandua anywhere (nor the sloths but I already have those guys for this challenge) and the tenrec had no red lighting in its enclosure so it was just a pitch black box!
A visit to Safaripark Beekse Bergen last week brought me the first species for this Challenge :
1 - Hippo ( Hippopotamus amphibius )
2 - Spooted hyena ( Crocuta crocuta )
3 - Lion ( Panthera leo )
4 - Amur tiger ( Panthera tigris )
5 - Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus )
6 - African wild dog ( Lycaon pictus )
7 - Corsac fox ( Vulpes corsac )
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Yesterday a visit to Zie-ZOO in the Netherlands and had hoped to see a huge number of species for the Challenge. Did find indeed a good number but also missed another good number because many species stayed inside due to the cold weather
. So this time no Clouded leopard, no Pallas' cat, no Serval, no Siberian weazel, no Striped hyena, no Wolverine, no Maned wolf, no Raccoon ( ! ), no Striped skunk ( ! ) , no binturong and no Dusky pademelon...Now to the species I did see :
8 - White-nosed coati - Nasua narica
22 - Yellow-throated marten - Martes flavigula
23 - Cuvier's dwarf caiman - Paleosuchus palpebrosus
@vogelcommando Last I checked and unless someone's updated the rules, mongooses don't count.
By checking the rules myself I discovered you're completely right ! Thanks for correcting me. Must have thrown them all in the group "small brown carnivores" .... sorry.
After taking away Common cusimanse, Dwarf mongoose, Meerkat, Yellow mongoose and Banded mongoose I'm now standing on 18 species.
I need to start planning longer visiting hours for this Challenge. I knew it is going to be a trouble
30.01.2022 Tierpark Hagenbeck
14.Indian flying fox/Pteropus medius
15.Rodriguez flying fox/Pteropus rodricensis
16.Seba's short-tailed bat/Carollia perspicillata
17.South American coati /Nasua nasua
18.Henkel's leaf-tailed gecko/Uroplatus henkeli
19.Blacktip reef shark/Carcharhinus melanopterus
20.Coral catshark/Atelomycterus marmoratus
21.Grey reef shark /Carcharhinus
amblyrhynchos
22.Port Jackson shark/Heterodontus portusjacksoni
23.Brown-banded bambooshark/Chiloscyllium punctatum
24.Zebra shark/Stegostoma fasciatum
25.South African Nile crocodile/Crocodylus niloticus cowiei
06.02.2022 Nordens Ark
26.Chinese dhole/ Cuon alpinus lepturus
27.Eurasian wolf /Canis lupus lupus
28.European wolverine/Gulo gulo gulo
29. Maned wolf /Chrysocyon brachyurus
30. Northern lynx/ Lynx lynx lynx
31. Scottish wildcat / Felis silvestris grampia
32. Siberian pallas' cat / Otocolobus manul manul
33. Snow leopard / Panthera uncia
34. European eagle-owl/ Bubo bubo bubo
Just a clarification on geckos...is this ANY gecko (true geckos, leopard geckos, etc) as long as it's not specifically a Day Gecko? Or is it just "true" geckos (again, minus the day geckos)?
To make it easier, we opted for all geckos bar day geckos since those are the most obvious and most common diurnal geckos.
~Thylo