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adrian1963 said:
will do in future and I have to copy & paste the list and then put it in to alphabetical order as the zootierliste is not in alphabetical order well the UK part isn't
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On the map view the species are listed alphabetically by German name, even in the English version (I hardly ever look at this unless I'm using radius search).

If you just enter the zoo name into the search box on the main site the list comes up alphabetically by English name.
 
Maguari said:
In fact, all those species are listed as former holdings.
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Indeed they are today, but yesterday they were under current listing. At least my comment provoked some response and correction, and for that I'm pleased.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
It *is* the ZTL list, as zootierliste does list species alphabetically!
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Not on my computer it dos'nt.
Londons list starts as pasted below, but at least this list is alphabetical to a degree.

Acigöl killifish*
African gray-headed gull
African pygmy goose
African dwarf goat (Cameroon dwarf goat)
Niger tetra (Redeye tetra)
African knifefish
African wild dog (No Subspecific status)
Egyptian tortoise
Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur (Alaotran Gentle Lemur)*
Alpaca
Old World comb duck
Chapultepec splitfin
Butterfly goodeid (Butterfly splitfin)
Violet-backed starling (Amethyst starling)
Annam leaf turtle
Broadbarred firefish
Mountain chicken (Giant ditch frog)
Arapaima
 
dublinlion said:
Indeed they are today, but yesterday they were under current listing. At least my comment provoked some response and correction, and for that I'm pleased.
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Fair do's. It is a user-edited database, so will always depend on a user who knows taking a look and either editing or bringing it to an editor's attention.

dublinlion said:
Not on my computer it dos'nt.
Londons list starts as pasted below, but at least this list is alphabetical to a degree.

Acigöl killifish*
African gray-headed gull
African pygmy goose
African dwarf goat (Cameroon dwarf goat)
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As I said above, that's the list alphabetically by German name as it appears if you are looking at the map view. If you just put 'London (Zoo)' into the search bar you should get the same list alphabetically by English name (albeit with a few rather fanciful names in places!). You can also just search for (e.g.) 'London' if you don't know what Zootierliste calls the collection, but you'll then get all London collections, not just the zoo. With places whose name doesn't match the town they are in (Cotswold/Burford,for instance) either name should work. :)
 
Thanks Maguari, for your helpful (as always) comments, that makes it much clearer.

Zootierlist is a great facility and I would be loathe to criticise it in any way. My comments (constructive, I hope) are based on my own obsession with accuracy.
Actually when I visit zoos more time is spent counting the specimens, than enjoying the show lol.
 
Tim May said:
Actually Dublin Zoo was the first zoo in the world to have a pygmy hippo back in 1873.

The animal only lived a short while but Zootierliste is perfectly accurate to show that there was a pygmy hippo at Dublin; it is also correctly listed under former holding, not current holding.
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As I already pointed out whoever (wonder who?) changed the Dublin listings, only did so after my initial comment.
But indeed my post was inaccurate in part, as a pygmy hippo (infant weighing about 30 lbs, was held and survived for a few weeks offshow) by DZ. Interestingly,140 years ago it was not even regarded as a different species.
 
dublinlion said:
As I already pointed out whoever (wonder who?) changed the Dublin listings, only did so after my initial comment.
But indeed my post was inaccurate in part, as a pygmy hippo (infant weighing about 30 lbs, was held and survived for a few weeks offshow) by DZ. Interestingly,140 years ago it was not even regarded as a different species.
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Pretty sure the listing for pygmy hippo at least was already correct, as I do not recall ever seeing said taxon listed as a current holding for Dublin - and of course if someone had changed the listings to fit your comment they would have deleted the pygmy hippo listing altogether :p
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Pretty sure the listing for pygmy hippo at least was already correct, as I do not recall ever seeing said taxon listed as a current holding for Dublin :p
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Surprise.. Hesitate before reply, don't drop to this level lol.
 
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Incidentally, it is pretty easy to register as an editor on Zootierliste so feel free to do so - the best way to keep listings accurate is for as many people to be editing those collections with which they are familiar as possible.
 
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Edited the past few messages as you requested, dublinlion :) but retained my recommendation that you consider registering on ZTL.
 
Bristol Zoo is one of the more frustrating ones; I have done my best to keep it up to date and accurate, but one or more editors keep adding taxa that in some cases have never been held by the collection - or sometimes deleting listings on the basis that they have never seen the species themselves so presume it has left!
 
Zootierliste is listing Whipsnade as holding both Barren ground musk ox (Canadian muskox) and Greenland musk ox (White-face musk ox) as being in the collection based on this thread: http://www.zoochat.com/216/musk-ox-1984-a-50736/ Whipsnade doesn't have any musk ox species at all now does it? Or have I just been missing them? :rolleyes:
 
Crowthorne said:
Zootierliste is listing Whipsnade as holding both Barren ground musk ox (Canadian muskox) and Greenland musk ox (White-face musk ox) as being in the collection based on this thread: http://www.zoochat.com/216/musk-ox-1984-a-50736/ Whipsnade doesn't have any musk ox species at all now does it? Or have I just been missing them? :rolleyes:
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Yeah, someone obviously tried to add them as former holdings but a) added them to the wrong section and b) didn't notice they were already listed as such.

Reverted it now.
 
Thanks TLD :)
 
Is the wmsp list correct?

Also do you mind if i ask what is the editing process on the site?
 
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Might be the odd fish species wrong but its certainly correct for the Mammals and Reptiles that I saw a couple of months ago when I visited,although some of the species of mammals are held off-show on the sssi site within the grounds!

As for the editing process its called site users,hence why I walked away from editing it,as some idiots keep changing things just because a species isn't listed on a website!Or they do not have the knowledge of where an animal came from and its history and believe it to be what the place claims it to be like the former holding for West Mids for West African Leopard which it most certainly wasn't as I know where the animal came from and it is most certainly a Heinz 57 Leopard and not a West African!!!!!!
 
Can anyone please add Lesser Hegdehog Tenrec to the current holdings for London Zoo please? :)

Did try registering there but seem to have forgotten my password already :o
 
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