I love how 9 hours away is consider local for Australians
What species are missing for you to complete your local zoo?
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I mean mines 3. How is this person's local one 9!
Cincinnati Zoo
Current:
And that's just the animals that would fit as habitat animals haha. Yeah, I don't think we will get all of those. I'd say Pallas's cat is the most likely out of all of them.
Current:
- Aardwolf
- Alpaca
- American croc
- Angolan colobus monkey
- Aye-aye
- Bat-eared fox
- Black howler monkey
- Black rhino
- Black-and-white colobus monkey
- Black-footed cat
- Brazilian porcupine
- Buff-cheeked gibbon
- Buff-crested bustard
- Cape porcupine
- Chinese alligator
- Coquerel's sifaka
- Crested guinea fowl
- Fishing cat
- Florida manatee
- Greater bushbaby
- Great white pelican
- Gray-crowned crane
- Gray fox
- Helmeted currasow
- Indian star tortoise
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Large-spotted genet
- Lesser kudu
- Little blue penguin
- Magellanic penguin
- Magpie goose
- Malaysian tiger
- Masai giraffe
- Masked bobwhite quail
- Mexican wolf
- Mini-juliana pig
- Meuller's gibbon
- Nicobar pigeon
- Nigerian goat
- North American river otter
- Northern spider tortoise
- Nubian goat
- Pallas's cat
- Pancake tortoise
- Pink-backed pelican
- Quince monitor
- Radiated tortoise
- Ringtail
- Ruepell's vulture
- Saddle-billed stock
- Sand cat
- Screaming armadillo
- Serval
- Southern ocelot
- Southern rockhopper penguin
- Southern tamandua
- Trumpeter swan
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Visayan warty pig
- White ibis
- White-breasted cormorant
- White-faced saki
- White throated monitor
- North American black bear
- Northern sea otter
And that's just the animals that would fit as habitat animals haha. Yeah, I don't think we will get all of those. I'd say Pallas's cat is the most likely out of all of them.
I'm in central QLD, it's the nearest zoo to me. I used to live 45 minutes away from it but that's before I decided to travel full time to do wildlife photography
Lol I live an hour or so outside of Brisbane. There's a few small wildlife reserves but somehow no zoos in Brisbane.
I used to live in brissy and have lived in Toowoomba too. Darling downs zoo would be your closest and is the zoo I mentioned in my list. Australia zoo is on the sunny coast but it's a bit overpriced, you're mostly paying to see the Irwin's. Sealife is also on the sunny coast and I enjoyed it. Currumbin on the GC has a strong focus on natives and have recently done several upgrades and expansions. There is a gold coin entry wildlife park in the Ipswich botanical gardens with natives and some farm animals. I think the next zoo on the nsw side is dubbos western plains zoo lol. Love the options around but I do think Brisbane would do well with it's own city zoo, maybe just get rid of inala and put a zoo there.
Double post I know but I really want to advocate darling downs zoo - they're a small privately owned and funded park who are doing some great things. So worth the visit - if you go outside of the school holidays you can usually have the park to yourself, you can handfeed and pet zebras, capybaras, deer, roos. In the 15 years since they opened they have rapidly expanded and theyre very well thought of in the zoo circles - they have a very good success rate at breeding species that need it - they have 3 of Australias 7 sri Lankan leopards, they've got a health population of red handed tamarins and hamadryas baboon, they put their money into expanding and improving their animals enclosures - they recently added a 20 acre paddock for the zebras and ostriches. They are affordable too Imo, it's about $60 to feed marmosets, and that money goes into the animals. They're crowd funding for a new enclosure for their komodo dragon Balu right now.
Good to know. At this point the only zoo I've been to multiple times is the Rockhampton one. Always stop their when going up north. Will defintley check out darling Downs though. Not relevant but I am also going to Dubbo zoo soon which I've heard is really good.
That's real close. What zoo? And what animals do you already have?
Not a lot of big animals. This "zoo" is made up of rainforest domes and they are mostly full of birds and reptiles. A few major ones that come to mind though are manatee (if it counts), margay, ocelot, whistling duck, greenwinged dove, crested partridge, porcupine.. I haven't been for years now so my memory doesnt serve amazingly.
Well you got 2/5. Nice! Think we should post updates for the new pack
None of the animals in the arid animal pack can be found in my local zoo, so still nothing changes for meNone of the animals in the tropical pack can be found in my local zoo, so nothing changes for me
Unless the sandcat can be a European wildcat in disguise, I think we need a highlands/mountain pack to get anything remotely close to my local zoo
Whooo, awesome. Absolutely nothing changed
Nothing new for Philadelphia as of the arid pack. However, we did have the very last mhorr gazelle (a subspecies of the dama gazelle) in the AZA; I saw her last year a couple months before her death at the age of 14. There are still plenty on private ranches, mostly in Texas. There were also dromedary rides which were phased out a while ago.
Since Grasslands I can take out 5 species.
That zoo also holds Blue Wildebeest and Dama Gazelles, but I didn't think those were likely inclusions. Still cool
Looking forward to knocking out all those SA monekys off the list one day
- Wildboar
- European Wildcat
- Ferret
- Raccoon (more brownish Color Morph)
- Bald Ibis
- Eurasian Wolf
- Eurasian Brown Bear
- Griffon Vulture
- Mufflon
- Valais Blackneck
- Valais Blacknose
- Eurasian Eagle Owl
- Snowy Owl
- Great Grey Owl
- Black Stork
- Eurasian Otter
- Tanuki
- several Farm Animals that aren't properly mentioned on the Map
- Brown Rat
- some Mouse (probably House Mouse)
- various Birds of Prey (Eagles, Hawks...)
- Turtle (probably European Pond Turtle)
- some Breed of Domesticated Donkey
- some small Breed of Pony (Shetland Pony?)
- White Stork
- Mangalica
- if I remember correctly some Breed of Herding Dog that they did Shows with. Probably Border Collie or Old German Herding Dog. It's been Years since I was there
