When I saw a recent stocklist of animals from Indian zoos (from 2021-2022), posted on the forums by @wanderoo, I decided to do a similar list to that made by @Chuditch about the mammals in Australian zoos (see here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/mammals-kept-in-australian-zoos.620391/). This should help anyone who is building a zoo in India select the species to use, and also look at what is missing from the roster. Because information about reptiles is also included, I have also listed habitat reptile species as well.
Some additional information - I excluded any places that held only a single species. I have included only species that I think are large enough to work as habitat animals (I excluded borderline examples like pygmy and slender lorises and palm squirrels). For reptiles, I decided to stick only to crocodilians, monitor lizards, tortoises and terrestrial iguanas. Next to each species, the first number is the number of zoos holding the species, and the second is the number of individuals held across all those zoos. Bolded animals are ones already in-game.
MAMMALS
Abundant: 30+ holdings
Native
Very Common: 29-20 holdings
Native
Common: 19-11 holdings
Native
Uncommon: 10-6 holdings
Native
Rare: 5-2 holdings
Native
Very Rare: 1 holding
Native
REPTILES
Abundant: 30+ holdings
Native
Native
Common: 19-11 holdings
Native
Uncommon: 10-6 holdings
Native
Rare: 5-2 holdings
Native
Very Rare: 1 holding
Native
I may also look into doing a similar list using the bird species list also provided in the document.
Some additional information - I excluded any places that held only a single species. I have included only species that I think are large enough to work as habitat animals (I excluded borderline examples like pygmy and slender lorises and palm squirrels). For reptiles, I decided to stick only to crocodilians, monitor lizards, tortoises and terrestrial iguanas. Next to each species, the first number is the number of zoos holding the species, and the second is the number of individuals held across all those zoos. Bolded animals are ones already in-game.
MAMMALS
Abundant: 30+ holdings
Native
- Indian leopard - 48 zoos, 494 individuals
- Sambar - 47 zoos, 1,236 individuals
- Chital - 45 zoos, 4,455 individuals
- Indian muntjac - 42 zoos, 650 individuals
- Blackbuck - 40 zoos, 1,352 individuals
- Bengal tiger - 38 zoos, 187 individuals
- Sloth bear - 34 zoos, 203 individuals
- Golden jackal - 33 zoos, 263 individuals
- Rhesus macaque - 32 zoos, 329 individuals
Very Common: 29-20 holdings
Native
- Nilgai - 27 zoos, 341 individuals
- Asiatic lion - 25 zoos, 182 individuals
- Asiatic black bear - 25 zoos, 117 individuals (the Formosan is a subspecies very similar-looking to the mainland Asiatic)
- Northern Plains grey langur - 25 zoos, 103 individuals
- Indian crested porcupine - 24 zoos, 195 individuals
- Striped hyena - 24 zoos, 105 individuals
- Asian palm civet - 24 zoos, 91 individuals
- Indian hog deer - 23 zoos, 399 individuals
- Bonnet macaque - 21 zoos, 177 individuals
- Four-horned antelope - 20 zoos, 106 individuals
- Hippopotamus - 23 zoos, 80 individuals
Common: 19-11 holdings
Native
- Jungle cat - 19 zoos, 87 individuals
- Leopard cat - 18 zoos, 40 individuals
- Indian gazelle - 17 zoos, 81 individuals
- Indian wolf - 15 zoos, 132 individuals
- Bengal fox - 14 zoos, 54 individuals
- Brow-antlered deer - 13 zoos, 233 individuals
- Barasingha - 12 zoos, 232 individuals
- Himalayan goral - 12 zoos, 98 individuals
- Indian elephant - 12 zoos, 65 individuals
- Wild boar - 11 zoos, 79 individuals
Uncommon: 10-6 holdings
Native
- Gaur - 10 zoos, 85 individuals
- Indian rhinoceros - 10 zoos, 39 individuals
- Malabar giant squirrel - 9 zoos, 22 individuals
- Dhole - 7 zoos, 88 individuals
- Fishing cat - 7 zoos, 20 individuals
- Small Indian civet - 7 zoos, 11 individuals
- Indian spotted chevrotain - 6 zoos, 33 individuals
- Bengal slow loris - 6 zoos, 15 individuals
Rare: 5-2 holdings
Native
- Lion-tailed macaque - 5 zoos, 15 individuals
- Smooth-coated otter - 4 zoos, 23 individuals
- Assam macaque - 4 zoos, 19 individuals
- Indian grey mongoose - 4 zoos, 12 individuals
- Stump-tailed macaque - 4 zoos, 12 individuals
- Hoolock gibbon - 3 zoos, 13 individuals
- Himalayan porcupine - 3 zoos, 12 individuals
- Indian wild ass - 3 zoos, 11 individuals
- Red fox - 3 zoos, 8 individuals
- Masked palm civet - 3 zoos, 6 individuals
- Red panda - 2 zoos, 30 individuals
- Bharal - 2 zoos, 17 individuals
- Markhor - 2 zoos, 11 individuals
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine - 2 zoos, 8 individuals
- Tibetan wolf - 2 zoos, 8 individuals
- Honey badger - 2 zoos, 3 individuals
- Caracal - 2 zoos, 2 individuals
- Plains zebra - 5 zoos, 20 individuals
- Chimpanzee - 4 zoos, 12 individuals
- Hamadryas baboon - 4 zoos, 12 individuals
- Masai giraffe - 4 zoos, 9 individuals
- Common marmoset - 4 zoos, 6 individuals
- Southern pig-tailed macaque - 3 zoos, 15 individuals
- Ring-tailed lemur - 3 zoos, 13 individuals
- Northern giraffe - 3 zoos, 10 individuals
- Red-necked wallaby - 3 zoos, 7 individuals
- Sika deer - 3 zoos, 3 individuals
- Tufted capuchin - 2 zoos, 9 individuals
- Serval - 2 zoos, 4 individuals
- White-faced capuchin - 2 zoos, 3 individuals (labelled as Panamanian, which are visually identical to the Colombian species)
- Jaguar - 2 zoos, 3 individuals
- Grevy's zebra - 2 zoos, 3 individuals
- African savannah elephant - 2 zoos, 2 individuals
Very Rare: 1 holding
Native
- Himalayan tahr - 17 individuals
- Snow leopard - 11 individuals
- Gee's golden langur - 7 individuals
- Mishmi takin - 7 individuals
- Phayre's leaf monkey - 6 individuals
- Northern pig-tailed macaque - 5 individuals
- Southern Plains grey langur - 5 individuals
- Mainland serow - 5 individuals
- Mithun (domesticated gaur) - 3 individuals
- Nilgiri langur - 3 individuals
- Tufted grey langur - 3 individuals
- Capped langur - 2 individuals
- Black-footed grey langur - 2 individuals
- Asiatic golden cat - 1 individual
- Binturong - 1 individual
- Clouded leopard - 1 individual
- Indian giant flying squirrel - 1 individual
- Pygmy hog - 1 individual
- Rusty-spotted cat - 1 individual
- Mandrill - 16 individuals
- Meerkat - 13 individuals
- Silvery marmoset - 7 individuals
- African lion - 5 individuals
- Ring-tailed coati - 5 individuals
- Bornean orangutan - 4 individuals
- Alpaca - 4 individuals
- Common squirrel monkey - 4 individuals
- Cottontop tamarin - 4 individuals
- Cheetah - 3 individuals
- Llama - 3 individuals
- Blue wildebeest - 3 individuals
- African buffalo - 2 individuals
- Gemsbok - 2 individuals
- Southern white rhinoceros - 2 individuals
- Western lowland gorilla - 2 individuals
- Bat-eared fox - 2 individuals
- Golden-headed lion tamarin - 2 individuals
- Red kangaroo - 1 individual
- Brazilian tapir - 1 individual
- Golden-handed tamarin - 1 individual
REPTILES
Abundant: 30+ holdings
Native
- Mugger crocodile - 40 zoos, 571 individuals
- Gharial - 32 zoos, 264 individuals
Native
- Indian star tortoise - 25 zoos, 495 individuals
Common: 19-11 holdings
Native
- Bengal monitor - 12 zoos, 30 individuals
Uncommon: 10-6 holdings
Native
- Saltwater crocodile - 6 zoos, 22 individuals
Rare: 5-2 holdings
Native
- Elongated tortoise - 3 zoos, 6 individuals
- Asian brown tortoise - 2 zoos, 88 individuals
- Asian water monitor - 2 zoos, 4 individuals
- Spectacled caiman - 4 zoos, 16 individuals
- Siamese crocodile - 3 zoos, 19 individuals
- African spurred tortoise - 2 zoos, 210 individuals
- Morelet's crocodile - 2 zoos, 4 individuals
- Nile crocodile - 2 zoos, 4 individuals
Very Rare: 1 holding
Native
- Travancore tortoise - 1 individual
- Aldabra giant tortoise - 3 individuals
- West African slender-snouted crocodile - 2 individuals
- Galapagos pink land iguana - 2 individuals
I may also look into doing a similar list using the bird species list also provided in the document.
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