Zoochat Wildlife Quiz

[Dassie rat]

Gerald Iles

 

[Tim May]

Gerald Iles

Yes that's correct; Gerald Iles, Director of Belle Vue Zoo (Manchester) brought the first gerenuk into the UK.

 

[Dassie rat]

Thanks, Tim

Which antelope species was kept at Napoli in the 1950s and 1960s.

 

[Tim May]

Thanks, Tim

Which antelope species was kept at Napoli in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dibatag were the most notable antelope species kept at Naples

 

[Dassie rat]

Well done, Tim

It's your turn

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Just for info; we have had more than the required number of questions for this “chapter “.

 

[German Zoo World]

So @Tim May you have the Next Challenge.

 

[Tim May]

So @Tim May you have the Next Challenge.

Just for info; we have had more than the required number of questions for this “chapter “.

What "chapter" comes next?

 

[German Zoo World]

What "chapter" comes next?

@Tim May you First have to do a Challenge for the current chapter please.

 

[Tim May]

@Tim May you First have to do a Challenge for the current chapter please.

London Zoo exhibited four individuals of a now extinct species; it is believed that no other zoo ever held this species, so these four specimens are the only ones ever to be displayed in a zoo. What species?

 

[Gavialis]

London Zoo exhibited four individuals of a now extinct species; it is believed that no other zoo ever held this species, so these four specimens are the only ones ever to be displayed in a zoo. What species?

Falkland Islands 'wolf'?

 

[German Zoo World]

Quaga, Wandering Albatros?

 

[Tim May]

Falkland Islands 'wolf'?

Yes Falkland Island Wolf is the correct answer.

 

[German Zoo World]

Next chapter is Masters of the Air and the First question does @Gavialis please.

 

[Gavialis]

In 1931, Cecil Stanley Webb brought to Europe the first living specimens of which bird?

 

[Tim May]

In 1931, Cecil Stanley Webb brought to Europe the first living specimens of which bird?

Hoatzin

 

[Gavialis]

Correct, of course, Tim.

C.S. Webb would later become the Curator of Mammals and Birds at London Zoo. He captured five hoatzin during an expedition in the British Guiana; sadly, only two survived the journey to Regent's Park.

 

[Tim May]

In 1948, C. S. Webb also brought the first living specimen of what bird to Europe?

 

[Gavialis]

In 1948, C. S. Webb also brought the first living specimen of what bird to Europe?

Grey-necked picathartes

 

[Tim May]

Grey-necked picathartes

Indeed you are, of course, correct; London Zoo was the first zoo to exhibit a grey-necked picathartes and, a few years later, would become the first zoo to show the other picathartes species too.

Incidentally C. S. Webb's book "Wanderer in the Wind: The Odyssey of an Animal Collector" is well worth reading.