Zoos That Have Had All Species of a Type of Animal

SDZ does and also houses clouded leopard, mountain lion, and cheetah if you count those as "big cats."

When did they get jaguar?

Several places in the USA have all of panthera. The Wild Animal Park is the only one I know of that keeps all 5 plus the three lesser big cats (clouded, cheetah, and puma).
 
They've had jaguar for several years now, since atleast the opening of Elephant Odyssey but maybe even longer. The habitat is the one right next to the lions, and currently houses a single female Nindiri.

Thanks! I could find a lot from the past, but when I looked before, I couldn't find recent stuff and no one mentioned it in the felids thread. There's two zoos with the 5 + 3 then, one on each coast.
 
Toronto keeps both pygmy and river hippos... for now. The rivers are on phase out to everyones great disappointment.

They have kept 5 panthera at once, African lions, Amur tigers, snow leopard, jaguar and Chinese leopard. Now that I think of it I might be a little off on the jaguar timing... they could have arrived after the Chinese leopards left. If we want to count clouded leopard as the leopard (which I think is wrong) then we have it today with the bonus of Sumatran tigers too. The zoo also keeps cheetahs and cougars and until early this year Canadian lynx. In the past they have also been home to ocelots, bobcats, caracal, and serval. Big on the felines in Toronto for awhile.

They did have white, black and Indian rhinos for a very brief period in the 70's.

Not positive but they may have also had all the North American bears at one point. Definitely have for all but 2 years had polar bears. Im pretty sure there have always been grizzlies but not certain. And there was a period of time where there was black bears early on in the zoo so if they always had grizzlies then they had all three North American bears for awhile.

There was a time when they had an impressive list of equines with Przewalski's, Persian onager, Grevy's zebra, Grant's zebra and Burchell's zebra.

They did well with deer species in the early days too with Chinese water deer, Siberian roe deer, Pere David's deer, sika deer, barasingha, white tailed deer, mule deer, moose, elk, Reeve's muntjac, reindeer, and caribou. Most if not all overlapped at some point.
 
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