Every continent ultimate wishlist 🤩

[nutrit]

Europe
Crested Porcupine
Great White Pelican
Wild boar
Wisent

Asia
Honey badger
Hamadryas baboon
Golden takin
Père David’s deer
Pallas cat
Blackbuck
Lion tailed macaque
+
Lar gibbon and Dromedary as anniversary

Gray langur
Sloth bear
Gaur
Markhor

Oceania
Echidna
Yellow footed rock wallaby
Tasmanian devil
Tree kangaroo
Kiwi
Black crested macaque
Lowland anoa

Africa
Somali wild ass
Addax
Red River hog
Mantled guereza
Gerenuk
African civet
Serval

African leopard
Giant eland
Black rhino
Black backed jackal

NA
Wolverine
Musk ox
Warus
Sea otter
NA porcupine
Virginia opossum
American Black bear

SA
Sloth
Coati
Howler monkey
Peccary
Mara
Rhea
Vicuña

Spectacled bear
Tamandua
Ocelot
Spider monkey

Birds
Secretary bird
Shoebill
Gray crowned crane
Ground hornbill
Saddled billed stork
Black swan
Argus phesant

Flying birds
Bald eagle
Arctic owl
Hyacinth macaw
Toco toucan
Scarlet ibis
Roseate spoonbill
Sulphur cockatoo

Marine
Bottlenose dolphin
Beluga
Sea turtle
Manatee

 

[Colehunter35]

Crested Porcupine

I thought that was africa

 

[nutrit]

I thought that was africa

It’s also found in Europe

 

[Aramar]

@nutrit you forgot Pere David's deer

 

[DragonNTiger]

It’s also found in Europe

That's like saying the Greater Flamingo is found in Europe... it's way more common in Africa... that's why it's usually called African Crested Porcupine.

 

[Captain Callum]

I'm sure there could easily be 20-30 animals left for every continent for the ultimate wishlist. That being said though, every animal here I could class as an essential addition

 

[BananaLeech]

I'm sure there could easily be 20-30 animals left for every continent for the ultimate wishlist. That being said though, every animal here I could class as an essential addition

I don’t know about Oceania (not counting Indonesian and Philippine islands). I’d argue that reaching 20-30 animals would need a lot of redundancies of monitor lizards and macropods (which I don’t oppose but I can’t speak for the rest of the community.)

 

[Captain Callum]

I don’t know about Oceania (not counting Indonesian and Philippine islands). I’d argue that reaching 20-30 animals would need a lot of redundancies of monitor lizards and macropods (which I don’t oppose but I can’t speak for the rest of the community.)

Yeah I realise some areas could really just do with say a dozen more animals, more of a generalised statement to be honest. However let's see how many Oceania species I can list before I see redundancies (that i can find at least one zoo holding of)

• Short Beaked Enchida
• Tasmanian Devil
• Quoll
• Grey kangaroo
• Long nosed bandicoot
• Common ringtail possum
• Common wallaroo
• Quokka
• Tree kangaroo
• Kiwi
• Little blue penguin
• Australian fur seal
• Grey headed flying fox
• Perentie
• Sugar glider
• Freshwater crocodile
• Numbat
• New Zealand sea lion
• Any number of bat options from either Australia or new Zealand

Ah 19 then, close enough

 

[nutrit]

@nutrit you forgot Pere David's deer

Omg you are right thanks

 

[nutrit]

That's like saying the Greater Flamingo is found in Europe... it's way more common in Africa... that's why it's usually called African Crested Porcupine.

Not really, Greather flamingo is an European breeding bird:

The range of the greater flamingo in the Old World: A-breeding populations [1-Asian (including: 1W-western part; 1S-south part; 1N-northern part); 2-West-African; 3-East-African; 4-South-African; 5-Western Mediterranean, according to Johnson, 1997, 1998 with modifications]; B-nesting sites; C-nomadic sites.​

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Same with the porcupine and it’s called Crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) cristatus (Latin) From crista ("the comb or tuft on the head of animals; tuft of leaves on plants; crest of a helmet").​

It lives and breeds in Europe ​

 

[Captain Callum]

Not really, Greather flamingo is an European breeding bird:
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The range of the greater flamingo in the Old World: A-breeding populations [1-Asian (including: 1W-western part; 1S-south part; 1N-northern part); 2-West-African; 3-East-African; 4-South-African; 5-Western Mediterranean, according to Johnson, 1997, 1998 with modifications]; B-nesting sites; C-nomadic sites.​

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Same with the porcupine.​

It lives and breeds in Europe ​

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It's also why the African crested porcupine is more commonly referred to as the crested porcupine since there are breeding populations well outside Africa.

 

[YesIndeed]

Europe
Crested Porcupine
Great White Pelican
Wild boar
Wisent

Asia
Honey badger
Hamadryas baboon
Golden takin
Père David’s deer
Pallas cat
Blackbuck
Lion tailed macaque
+
Lar gibbon and Dromedary as anniversary

Gray langur
Sloth bear
Gaur
Markhor

Oceania
Echidna
Yellow footed rock wallaby
Tasmanian devil
Tree kangaroo
Kiwi
Black crested macaque
Lowland anoa

Africa
Somali wild
Addax
Red River hog
Mantled guereza
Gerenuk
African civet
Serval

African leopard
Giant eland
Black rhino
Black backed jackal

NA
Wolverine
Musk ox
Warus
Sea otter
NA porcupine
Virginia opossum
American Black bear

SA
Sloth
Coati
Howler monkey
Peccary
Mara
Rhea
Vicuña

Spectacled bear
Tamandua
Ocelot
Spider monkey

Birds
Secretary bird
Shoebill
Gray crowned crane
Ground hornbill
Saddled billed stork
Black swan
Argus phesant

Flying birds
Bald eagle
Arctic owl
Hyacinth macaw
Toco toucan
Scarlet ibis
Roseate spoonbill
Sulphur cockatoo

Marine
Bottlenose dolphin
Beluga
Sea turtle
Manatee

Macaques aren't found in Oceania. It's one of the 2 conrinents with no primeapes. Nor are anoa's. They are both from sulawei in Indonesia.

 

[Captain Callum]

Macaques aren't found in Oceania. It's one of the 2 conrinents with no primeapes. Nor are anoa's. They are both from sulawei in Indonesia.

Well actually there is one island in Oceania. One of the islands in palau has the crab eating macaque. Some do class Oceania that stretches all the way into Indonesia however I don't since Indonesia is more south east Asia than Oceania to me

"The only non-human primate population in Oceania is on the Island of Ngeaur in the Republic of Palau. This population of macaques, M. fascicularis, was the result of ethnophoresy, the dispersal of animals by humans. German colonialists introduced about a half-dozen macaques from Indonesia around 1909"

 

[nutrit]

Well actually there is one island in Oceania. One of the islands in palau has the crab eating macaque. Some do class Oceania that stretches all the way into Indonesia however I don't since Indonesia is more south east Asia than Oceania to me

"The only non-human primate population in Oceania is on the Island of Ngeaur in the Republic of Palau. This population of macaques, M. fascicularis, was the result of ethnophoresy, the dispersal of animals by humans. German colonialists introduced about a half-dozen macaques from Indonesia around 1909"

I’ve read that Sulawesi because of marsupials living there and it’s very specific history may be included in Oceania and is considered by many scientists as it’s crucial part. Even National Geographic mentioned this subject couple of times.
It’s not my purpose to argue by any means but those arguments finds me very nicely.

The Wildlife of Sulawesi, Wallace’s Anomalous Island | WorkingAbroad

www.workingabroad.com

 

[Chuditch]

Sulawesi is within Wallacea, which is a transitional region of islands between the Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographic realms that, geologically speaking, do not technically belong to either Australia or Asia, which makes classifying them difficult. Personally I put the barrier between Indomalaya and Australasia along the so called "Weber Line", which marks where the biodiversity of the islands switches from mainly Asian to mainly Australian. Under this definition Sulawesi is still classed as being in Asia, because even though it has cuscus it also has pigs, bovines, macaques, tarsiers, squirrels, shrews and other Asian groups that form a much larger component of its mammalian fauna. However, with things like this it's always up to everyone's own interpretation, so I'm fine with people classing it as Oceania if they want (Oceania is a vague enough "continent" anyway).