Like many of the more hardcore zoo nerds in this community I most enjoy building realistic zoos from my own country, and so I've put together a list of every mammal species kept in public and zoological collections in Australia (including species that would need new mechanics, like small exhibit mammals and marine species, just for simplicity and completeness). This list was largely compiled by combining two lists already available on ZooChat, Native Mammals in Australian Zoos and Exotic Mammals in Australian Zoos, so full credit to the users who maintain these lists for almost all of the data used here. Given these are user-made lists rather than anything official (like Zootierliste), there's a pretty decent chance that the holdings are slightly off for some species, but it should at least get us in the right ballpark in regards to how widespread they are in Australian zoos. I've also repurposed the same ranking system used in the Native Mammals thread, with the addition of a "Very Rare" category.
The two main purposes of this list are:
1) to provide an easy reference for people designing Australian zoos, showing what mammal species are kept and how common they are
2) to show where the biggest holes in the zoo mammal roster for Australia currently lie* - evidently being native species in general and South American primates
*Not that Frontier should specifically cater to Australian zoos of course, just for the sake of discussion
Very Common: 20+ holdings
Native
Common: 20-11 holdings
Native
Uncommon: 10-6 holdings
Native
Rare: 5-2 holdings
Native
Very Rare: 1 holding
Native
Will keep this updated where I can. I'd love to do something similar to this on birds or reptiles, but unfortunately there's far less information available on their holdings (really wish we had a Zootierliste type thing) so such a thing is currently not possible.
The two main purposes of this list are:
1) to provide an easy reference for people designing Australian zoos, showing what mammal species are kept and how common they are
2) to show where the biggest holes in the zoo mammal roster for Australia currently lie* - evidently being native species in general and South American primates
*Not that Frontier should specifically cater to Australian zoos of course, just for the sake of discussion
Very Common: 20+ holdings
Native
- Short-beaked Echidna
- Tasmanian Devil
- Spotted-tailed Quoll
- Greater Bilby
- Koala
- Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
- Common Wombat
- Common Brushtail Possum
- Western Grey Kangaroo
- Eastern Grey Kangaroo
- Red-necked Wallaby
- Red Kangaroo
- Swamp Wallaby
- Dingo
- Common Marmoset
- Meerkat
Common: 20-11 holdings
Native
- Eastern Quoll
- Common Ringtail Possum
- Sugar Glider (species unspecified)
- Squirrel Glider
- Rufous Bettong
- Long-nosed Potoroo
- Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo
- Agile Wallaby
- Tammar Wallaby
- Parma Wallaby
- Common Wallaroo
- Quokka
- Tasmanian Pademelon
- Spinifex Hopping-mouse
- Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
- Domestic Rabbit
- Domestic Guinea Pig
- Capybara
- Ring-tailed Lemur
- Golden Lion Tamarin
- Emperor Tamarin
- Cottontop Tamarin
- Pygmy Marmoset
- Bolivian Squirrel Monkey
- Tufted Capuchin
- Lion
- Tiger
- Cheetah
- Serval
- Asian Small-clawed Otter
- Binturong
- Red Panda
- Plains Zebra
- Dromedary
- Alpaca
- European Fallow Deer
- Giraffe
- Domestic Goat
Uncommon: 10-6 holdings
Native
- Platypus
- Red-tailed Phascogale
- Fat-tailed Dunnart
- Yellow-bellied Glider
- Feathertail Glider (species unspecified)
- Brush-tailed Bettong
- Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
- Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
- Red-legged Pademelon
- Red-necked Pademelon
- Grey-headed Flying Fox
- Ghost Bat
- Asian Elephant
- Cape Porcupine
- Red-rumped Agouti
- Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur
- Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Siamang
- Northern White-cheeked Gibbon
- African Wild Dog
- Maned Wolf
- Spotted Hyena
- Southern White Rhinoceros
- Llama
- Domestic Water Buffalo
- American Bison
- Aoudad
- Blackbuck
Rare: 5-2 holdings
Native
- Numbat
- Chuditch
- Northern Quoll
- Golden Bandicoot
- Northern Brown Bandicoot
- Southern Brown Bandicoot
- Eastern Barred Bandicoot
- Southern Long-nosed Bandicoot
- Mountain Pygmy Possum
- Eastern Pygmy Possum
- Greater Glider (species unspecified)
- Western Ringtail Possum
- Mahogany Glider
- Eastern Bettong
- Northern Bettong
- Western Brush Wallaby
- Black-flanked Rock-wallaby
- Rakali
- Greater Stick-nest Rat
- Black-footed Tree-rat
- Mitchell's Hopping-mouse
- Plains Rat
- New Holland Mouse
- Black Flying Fox
- Spectacled Flying Fox
- New Zealand Fur Seal
- Australian Fur Seal
- Subantarctic Fur Seal
- Australian Sea Lion
- Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
- Patagonian Mara
- Red-handed Tamarin
- Varied White-fronted Capuchin
- Mantled Guereza
- Mandrill
- Japanese Macaque
- Crab-eating Macaque
- Rhesus Macaque
- Francois' Langur
- Lar Gibbon
- Silvery Gibbon
- Sumatran Orangutan
- Common Chimpanzee
- Lowland Gorilla
- Snow Leopard
- Leopard
- Caracal
- Fishing Cat
- Sun Bear
- Red Fox
- Fennec Fox
- South American Coati
- California Sea Lion
- Przewalski's Horse
- Black Rhinoceros
- Common Hippopotamus
- Pygmy Hippopotamus
- Javan Rusa
- Red Deer
- Wapiti
- Indian Hog Deer
- Banteng
- Himalayan Tahr
- Common Eland
- Bongo
- Nyala
- Common Waterbuck
- Addax
- Scimitar-horned Oryx
Very Rare: 1 holding
Native
- Dibbler
- Common Planigale
- Julia Creek Dunnart
- Brush-tailed Mulgara
- Quenda
- Striped Possum
- Leadbeater's Possum
- Savanna Glider
- Short-eared Brushtail Possum
- Burrowing Bettong
- Long-footed Potoroo
- Spectacled Hare-wallaby
- Mala
- Antilopine Wallaroo
- Black Wallaroo
- Black-striped Wallaby
- Bridled Nailtail Wallaby
- Northern Nailtail Wallaby
- Proserpine Rock Wallaby
- Dugong
- Grassland Melomys
- Central Rock-rat
- Little Red Flying Fox
- Common Bottlenose Dolphin
- Eastern Long-beaked Echidna
- Sunda Slow Loris
- De Brazza's Monkey
- Vervet Monkey (hybrid)
- Sulawesi Crested Macaque
- Spectacled Langur
- Clouded Leopard
- Polar Bear
- Giant Panda
- Persian Onager
- Brazilian Tapir
- Malayan Tapir
- Indian Rhinoceros
- Guanaco
- Sambar
- Persian Fallow Deer
- Chital
- Collared Peccary
Will keep this updated where I can. I'd love to do something similar to this on birds or reptiles, but unfortunately there's far less information available on their holdings (really wish we had a Zootierliste type thing) so such a thing is currently not possible.
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