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jhudstone wrote:

The deer is a chital or axis deer.

@ana - Ithere were a couple of great stores in Minnesota that had complete sets; I found the lemurs at the lemur conservancy.

Please please help us.

I also love these lemurs a lot! Congratulations! :)

widukind wrote:

jhudstone wrote:

The deer is a chital or axis deer.

@ana - Ithere were a couple of great stores in Minnesota that had complete sets; I found the lemurs at the lemur conservancy.

Please please help us.

Yes! is there still any chance to buy them?

Roger wrote:

I also love these lemurs a lot! Congratulations! :)

...I want the lemurs too! They would be nice looking in the my Jungle landscape!

Oh wow, they are lovely Andreas, I love the Gaur

Unfortunatley, they haven't listed them for a long time. That is the only time I have ever seen them.

jhudstone wrote:

Unfortunatley, they haven't listed them for a long time. That is the only time I have ever seen them.

And the other sets! The asian set?

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Those lemurs are impossible to get. Cristophe has them on his wishlist for years now,and there hasn't been any other coolector other than jhudstone to have them!

Wildheart wrote:

Those lemurs are impossible to get. Cristophe has them on his wishlist for years now,and there hasn't been any other coolector other than jhudstone to have them!

I know

PV didn't make sheep

A great example of hobbyists keeping rare animals may surprise you. One of the rarest tropical fish in the world is a cherry barb. It is almost extinct in the wild, there are so few that on some surveys they don't even collect any from the native habitat, yet go to just about any pet store and they are for sale for under $2 and sometimes I see small ones for about $0.99 at the local pet store. A perfect example of an endangered animal that will always be kept in captivity but may well become extinct in the wild. The same thing is true for both species of white cloud mountain minnows. Both are restricted to single habitats in the wild but in pet stores you can go any day of the week and buy them for about a dollar here in the USA.

These are just 2 examples from a very popular hobby, in the exotic pet trade there are just as many, for instance one of the most common pheasants in captivity, the Swinhoe's pheasant, is endangered, but it is so common in captivity that breeders sell them for $60 a pair. Just so you have something to compare that to is an ocellated turkey, which are fairly common in the wild and you can buy permits to hunt them, but are $3500 per pair.

It is totally true what Phil said a while ago about these fish-species.
As some of you know, i do sell tropical fish from my home, and i do have these 2 species in stock most of the time.
They are very cheap to get in wholesale(about 50 eurocs), and are bred in masses in South-East Asia.(thankfully)
In this hobby the fish that is to be found at the most in general in our fish-tanks, is the Kardinaltetra or Red Neon(Paracheirodon axelrodi).
The Indio's in South-America do get about 2 eurocts for 1000 of them, and in the shops it will cost you between 1,50-2,50 euro per fish!
So breeding them is a good business, and makes them much cheaper, next to the fact that this is better for nature.
At the moment, it is not even allowed to import fish from Brasil at all, which is a good thing i guess...
But it has no use if they are destroying their natural habitats in the jungle around there...

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widukind wrote:

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Hey ! That is the animal that is supposed to be my soulmate

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

....But it has no use if they are destroying their natural habitats in the jungle around there...

SO true ! The eternal problem

Very interesting readin, Willy !
If only they had saved the Tasman Tiger etc..at least we kno a little bit more these days.

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widukind wrote:

the new spectacled bear:

Hey ! That is the animal that is supposed to be my soulmate

Why??????????????????????

Very nice bears Andreas!

Yes Susanne.
I hope they are able to find some hidden Tasmanian tigers, or at least are able to revive them with gene-technology.
Better then to revive the whoolly mammoth, which is not from this time, although very interesting of course...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Very nice bears Andreas!

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Thank you Willy!!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Very nice bears Andreas!

Yes Susanne.
I hope they are able to find some hidden Tasmanian tigers, or at least are able to revive them with gene-technoligy.
Better then to revive the whoolly mammoth, which is not from this time, although very interesting of course...

Willy, to this day, there continue to be fairly frequent claimed sightings of the Thylacine in southern Tasmania, which I understand is relatively unpopulated and pristine. Many believe that this fascinating animal is still extant - let's hope so, anyway...

For what it's worth, in recent years, a number of species thought to be long-extinct have turned out to be extremely rare, but still extant.

Here is a species that scientists thought already extinct but it looks it is not! :)
This is related with Darwin and Harriet! :)
See here

The new museum down at Canberra has some amazing preserved tasmanian tigers, they so cool.
I do hope they can bring them back.

Wildheart wrote:

Those lemurs are impossible to get. Cristophe has them on his wishlist for years now,and there hasn't been any other coolector other than jhudstone to have them!

Really hard to get but not impossible Minhea !

The biggest problem is I live in Europe and not in the USA. I'm sure some stocks are lost somewhere and maybe they will appear on the market one day. Exactly like a supposed extinct specie which reappear because we didn't know where we need to search.

Remember, the holy and so rare "prehistoric amphibians" . It was so rare I only seen spares for years with incredible prices...
And now, I've got the complete set, you too... so there is still hope

Roger wrote:

Here is a species that scientists thought already extinct but it looks it is not! :)
This is related with Darwin and Harriet! :)
See here

Thanks for sharing Roger
It would be cool to find some Tasmanian tigers again

I hope this too Kiki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes Phil, i know about these sightings, and i really hope they are still there, even better then making them alive again.

That is good news Rogerio about the Tortoise on the Galapagos, because everybody thought, that Harriet in Australia Zoo was the last one that survived.
So a good search down there, and they really needed to find those last ones...

Do you have a close up of the Lion tail macaque?