Tuatara is at Berlin Zoo Aquarium (I’ve never seen it there though) and Chester Zoo. Plus Auckland of course, which is an associate member of EAZA.
The original post states “Species should be rare in zoos globally” so even though they are extremely rare in the USA it feels a stretch to say they are rare in zoos globally.
Was lucky enough to see 2 there this summer.
Nonetheless I would argue that being held in 56 zoos means the species doesn’t merit inclusion in this thread.
I mean the point of the thread is literally animals in like 10 or kess zoos worldwide, so if it either has a decent number in the EAZA or AZA its automaticly not what this thread is talking about
That’d just mean most animals would be able to qualify for this thread - for example, over half of PZ’s roster would be either very rare or nonexistent in zoos from an Australian perspective. Everything’s rare somewhere, hence why I specified species that are rare globally to remove bias.
Searched it again. It's under a different Name on Zootierliste.de. Maybe they should update the Way their Search Function works
Oh my God. I love it. So beautiful
Really weird to me that many Zoos don't breed them when that's the Main Goal of a Zoo. Hope they at least don't keep them together with African Lions in the Zoos that don't breed them because there were African-Asian Lion Hybrids once and those were far from being healthy (it isn't really sure though if it was due to Genetics or Incest because there weren't many Lions used in that Breeding Project of Chhatbir Zoo in India)
One also appeared in China somehow a few Years ago and was given to a Zoo (escaped smuggled Animal?). They didn't even know what it was but luckily someone could help them to identify the AnimalCommon spotted cuscus - kept in a few zoos in Indonesia, plus a single male left at a zoo in the Netherlands. This species comes in a quite incredible range of colours and patterns.
I really like that oneOtter civet - only a single male animal at a zoo in Indonesia. With probably some of the most luxurious whiskers in the animal kingdom.
The Problem though with the Mediterranean Monk Seal is that they don't breed in Captivity. That's why nowadays only orphaned ones live in Zoos.
www.zoochat.com
That’d just mean most animals would be able to qualify for this thread - for example, over half of PZ’s roster would be either very rare or nonexistent in zoos from an Australian perspective. Everything’s rare somewhere, hence why I specified species that are rare globally to remove bias.
As another species to showcase here, I’d like to nominate the mala or rufous hare-wallaby, a tiny fluffy desert macropod that is now extinct on mainland Australia outside of feral-free reserves thanks to invasive predators. They’re only kept at a single zoo, Alice Springs Desert Park, where I have seen them, but there they have a very large population of them - they breed prolifically in captivity. As well as being highly endangered, they’re also one of the most adorable animals on earth IMO.
Such a adorable little FluffballAll of them thrive in Captivity though. There just aren't many Zoos that have them. The Chiru is even kept in not even a single Zoo even though a chinese Zoo wanted to get them but it didn't work out
I never realised how rare these guys were in captivity - I've seen before them at the Alice Springs Desert Park and Alice Springs Reptile Centre, but it turns out that those just happen to be the only public collections in the world that currently house them from what I can find! I knew they weren't easy to keep thanks to their incredibly specific diet, but I thought they'd be a little more widespread in Australia at least.
