Who's missing from each region?

[Villanelle]

A slightly different wishlist. Which one habitat animal is most significantly missing from each geographical region for you?

North Africa:
West/Central Africa:
Southern Africa:
North America:
Central America:
South America:
Arctic:
Central Asia:
East Asia:
Southeast Asia:
Europe:
Oceania:


My list:

North Africa: Spoonbill
West/Central Africa: Red River Hog
Southern Africa: Honey badger
North America: Elk
Central America: Two-toed sloth
South America: Coati
Arctic: Musk ox
Central Asia: Crab-eating macaque
East Asia: Tanuki
Southeast Asia: Slow loris
Europe: Wild boar
Oceania: Quokka

 

[AlexSea]

North Africa: Dromedary Camel
West/Central Africa: African Crested Porcupine
Southern Africa: Secretary Bird
North America: Elk
Central America: Hoffmann's Two-Toed Sloth
Arctic: Musk Ox
Central Asia: Saiga Antelope
East Asia: Tanuki
Southeast Asia: Lar Gibbon
Europe: Wolverine
Oceania: Tasmanian Devil

 

[biggest_dreamer]

North Africa: Hamadryas baboon
West/Central Africa: Red river hog
Southern Africa: I’ll stick fossa here
North America: American black bear
Central America: Ocelot
South America: Golden lion tamarin
Arctic: honestly I’m good here but i’ll say muskox for everyone else’s sake
Central Asia: Fishing cat
East Asia: Tanuki
Southeast Asia: Lar gibbon
Europe: Wild boar
Oceania: Bennett’s wallaby

 

[SuzieSky]

North Africa: African Crested Porcupine
West/Central Africa: Serval
Southern Africa: Grey Crowned Crane
North America: American Black Bear
Central America: Geoffrey's Spider Monkey
South America: Golden Lion Tamarin
Arctic: Musk Ox
Central Asia: Muntjac
East Asia: Tanuki
Southeast Asia: Red Shanked Douc
Europe: Wolverine
Oceania: Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

North Africa: Striped hyena
West/Central Africa: Red river hog
Southern Africa: South African springhare
North America: Collared peccary
Central America: Ocellated turkey
South America: Northern helmeted curassow
Arctic: Musk ox
Central Asia: Bar-headed goose
East Asia: Yellow-throated marten
Southeast Asia: Owston's civet
Europe: Eurasian red squirrel
Oceania: Victoria crowned pigeon

 

[NachoB]

Not counting flying birds i assume...

North Africa: Dromedary
West/Central Africa: Red river hog
Southern Africa: Secretary bird
East Africa: Gelada
North America: Collared peccary
Central America: Ocelot
South America: Greater rhea
Arctic: Musk ox
Central Asia: Palla's cat
East Asia: Golden pheasant
Southeast Asia: Fishing cat
Indian subcontinent: blackbuck
Europe: Red deer
Oceania: Emu

 

[Veah]

That's a nice wishlist! Here's mine:

North Africa: Hamadryas baboon
West/Central Africa: Marabou stork
Southern Africa: Secretary bird
North America: White-nosed coatimundi
Central America: Collared peccary
South America: Howler monkey
Arctic: Walrus
Central Asia: Saiga
East Asia: Sichuan takin
Southeast Asia: Blackbuck
Europe: Wild boar
Oceania: Yellow-footed rock-wallaby

Some areas like North America and the Arctic are mostly donde, unless we include smaller, flying or pure marine animals.
E.g. my main options for North America were either marine mammals (manatee, elephant seal, Steller's sea lion) or mostly Central American animals (collared peccary, coatimundi, ocelot).

 

[Angeł]

North Africa: Crested Porcupine
West/Central Africa: Red River Hog
Southern Africa: Honey Badger
North America: Elk
Central America: White Nosed Coati
South America: Two Toed Sloth
Arctic: I’m good for Arctic, maybe Muskox
Central Asia: Yak
East Asia: Chinese Giant Salamander
Southeast Asia: Sumatran Orangutan, for choice’s sake
Europe: European Bison (Wisent)
Oceania: Emu

 

[Chuditch]

North Africa: African Crested Porcupine
West/Central Africa: Serval
Southern Africa: Fossa
North America: Nine-banded Armadillo
Central America: Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
South America: Maned Wolf
Arctic: None really
Central Asia: Also none really
East Asia: Yellow-throated Marten
Southeast Asia: Lowland Anoa
Europe: Chamois
Oceania: Tasmanian Devil

 

[Bearcat9948]

Sure

North Africa: Hamadryas baboon
West/Central Africa: Colobus monkey
Southern Africa: Eland
North America: American black bear
Central America: White-nosed coatimundi
South America: Maned wolf
Arctic: Walrus
Central Asia: Pallas's cat
East Asia: Giant salamander
Southeast Asia: Nothing
Europe: Wolverine
Oceania: Tasmanian devil

 

[Colehunter35]

Sure

North Africa: Hamadryas baboon
West/Central Africa: Colobus monkey
Southern Africa: Eland
North America: American black bear
Central America: White-nosed coatimundi
South America: Maned wolf
Arctic: Walrus
Central Asia: Pallas's cat
East Asia: Giant salamander
Southeast Asia: Nothing
Europe: Wolverine
Oceania: Tasmanian devil

I like this list a lot, but for south east asia i would do dusky leaf monkey

 

[Pentoleaf]

North Africa: Domestic donkey
West/Central Africa: Red River hog
Southern Africa: Grey crowned crane
North America: American black bear
Central America: Ocelot
South America: A spider monkey
Arctic: Musk ox
Central Asia: Saiga
East Asia: Mandarin duck
Southeast Asia: Another monkey? A ground bird? IDK
Europe: Wild boar
Oceania: Emu

 

[Colehunter35]

Southeast Asia: Another monkey? A ground bird? IDK

Dusky Leaf Monkey

 

[ElectricMonk]

In order of need (noting that 'need' isn't necessarily the same as 'want' or 'think is coolest'):

Oceania: Red-necked wallaby (and emu!)
- Its essentially impossible to build an Australian section without these two. Devils would be great but they're not as badly needed. Kiwi is a necessary addition if NZ is to get any love but is a lower priority (for me).
South America: Any amazonian monkey
- again, its essentially impossible to build a good Amazon area without at least one monkey! More than one is really needed TBH.
West/Central Africa: Mantled guereza
- as above, but for the Congo
North Africa: Hamadryas baboon
- as above, but for Northern Africa, just because they're so common in zoos.
Southern Africa: Fossa (because i can't put it somewhere else)
- needed for Madagascan sections. In this category just because they can't go anywhere else
Southeast Asia: Grey langur (assuming India goes here)
Central America: White-nosed coati
- More 'want' than 'need'.
North America: Wild turkey
- More 'want' than 'need', except that we just need more birds overall.
Central Asia, Europe, East Asia, Arctic: Not much is 'needed' TBH. Water birds or just to fill some empty nicehes? Not really fussed. Not so much that we 'need' more representatives from these regions as that we need more birds in general.

 

[paul78]

@ElectricMonk I was wondering are you from Australia and is the Red necked wallaby pretty popular by you? Here in the states the Bennetts wallaby seems to be the most common. If hypothetical we get one wallaby hypothetically of course would you be content with the Bennetts wallaby?

 

[Chuditch]

@ElectricMonk I was wondering are you from Australia and is the Red necked wallaby pretty popular by you? Here in the states the Bennetts wallaby seems to be the most common. If hypothetical we get one wallaby hypothetically of course would you be content with the Bennetts wallaby?

The Bennett’s wallaby is a subspecies of the red-necked wallaby

 

[paul78]

Ok good to know. Our local zoo has them in a walkthrough exhibit, cute little guys. Their usually pretty shy and prefer to flee but I did get to pet one laying down.

 

[ElectricMonk]

@ElectricMonk I was wondering are you from Australia and is the Red necked wallaby pretty popular by you? Here in the states the Bennetts wallaby seems to be the most common. If hypothetical we get one wallaby hypothetically of course would you be content with the Bennetts wallaby?

As @Chuditch says, Bennett’s is a (Tasmanian) subspecies - I’d prefer the whole species, since the range is greater (obviously) and the morphological differences among subspecies aren’t all that big. Bennett’s is more common in Europe (I’m guessing) because it’s more cold-adapted than mainland subspecies.

 

[paul78]

I agree as far as Australian species go I’d at least like a wallaby,emu, and echidna.

Here’s one of the females with a Joey from last year. The mother passed away awhile after sadly but the baby is doing well.

 

[Chuditch]

As @Chuditch says, Bennett’s is a (Tasmanian) subspecies - I’d prefer the whole species, since the range is greater (obviously) and the morphological differences among subspecies aren’t all that big. Bennett’s is more common in Europe (I’m guessing) because it’s more cold-adapted than mainland subspecies.

I would probably still prefer Bennett's specifically, given they're noticeably woollier and darker than most mainland animals. Either that or keep them at species level but base them predominantly on the Bennett's (like the timber wolf, moose and koala being based on specific subspecies/ecotypes), it would be weird to have one variant be based on wallabies from Tasmania and another from south-east Queensland: