I was thinking a marsupial or something… I’m nervous, we’re running low on questions!!!
I will say this is the list I used to determine if it was at the National Zoo or not since it’s been 20+ years since I was there. Meet the Animals | Smithsonian's National Zoo
Somebody needs to cross reference that zoo animal list with San Diego zoo and get us a list of differences
I don’t see any Koalas in that list my dudes.
Crap, apparently the multiple hits I got when I Googled “koala National Zoo” are from Australia’s National Zoo in Canberra. And a Smithsonian article (and it’s worth noting that the National Zoo is part of the Smithsonian) about feeding koalas that was actually about the Columbus, OH zoo.
I’m sorry for my bad Googling. The fact that Yankeetripper felt the need to clarify his source for his “no” answer also suggests that he may have been refuting my claim of no koalas.
That said, Google tells me that the lifespan of a koala is 13-18 years and YankeeTripper gave an unqualified “no” to the “more than 15 years” question.
National Geographic says 20 years on average.
The San Diego list is surprisingly short which makes me wonder if it’s incomplete. So I subbed out the Cincinnati Zoo (often ranked 3rd after the National Zoo & San Diego Zoo) instead. I did not take the time to research which are egg-layers, which fit the size limitations, and which live less than 15 years.
Animals at the Cincinnati Zoo not listed on National Zoo’s list:
Aardvark
Aardwolf
Ackies Dwarf Monitor
African Painted Dog
African Penguin
African Pygmy Falcon
Alligator Gar
Amazon Milk Frog
American Burying Beetle
American Crocodile
Andean Condor
Angolan Colobus Monkey
Angolan Python
Antilles Treespider
Arctic Fox
Aruban Island Rattlesnake
Atlantic Puffin
Aye-Aye
Azures Cichlid
Bali Myna
Barn Owl
Bat Cave Cockroach
Bat-Eared Fox
Bearcat
Bearded Dragon
Black Rat Snake
Back Rhinoceros
Black Tree Monitor
Black and White Colobus Monkey
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
Black-footed Cat
Blue and Gold Macaw
Blue Death Feigning Beetle
Blue Tree Monitor
Blue-crowned Laughing Thrush
Blue-crowned Motmot
Blue-tongued Skink
Boat-billed Heron
Bonobo
Brazilian Porcupine
Brazilian Salmon Pink Birdeater
Brazilian White-knee Tarantula
Brown Recluse Spider
Buff-Cheeked Gibbon
Buff-crested Bustard
Burmese Brown Mountain Tortoise
Burmese Python
California King Snake
Cape Porcupine
Cave Whip Spider
Chuckwalla
Cicada
Common Eider
Coquerel’s Sifaka
Cougar
Crested guineafowl
Crocodile Skink
Desert Rainworm
Domino Roach
Dragon-headed katydid
Dumeril’s Ground Boa
Dyeing Poison Dart Frog
East African Crowned Crane
Eastern Bongo
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Eastern Screech Owl
Electric Blue Day Gecko
Emerald Beetle
Emerald Tree Boa
Emperor Scorpion
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Everglades Rat Snake
Fairy Bluebird
Fire-bellied newt
Florida Manatee
Florida Pine Snake
Galápagos Tortoise
Garnett’s Galago (Greater Bushbaby )
Giant African Millipede
Giant Devil Flower Mantis
Giant Fruit Bat (Indian Flying Fox)
Giant Jumping Stick
Giant Spiny Leaf Insect
Giant Walking Stick
Giant Water Bug
Golden Poison Dart Frog
Greater Flamingo
Green Basilisk
Green Tree Monitor
Green-leaf Cockroach
Grey Bird Grasshopper
Grey Fox
Guira Cuckoo
Hamerkop
Helmeted Turtle
Hippopotamus
Hissing Cockroach
Horned Puffin
Hyacinth Macaw
Impala
Inca Tern
Indian Star Tortoise
Indochinese Spitting Cobra
Jade-headed Buffalo Beetle
Jamaican Boa
Kangaroo
Kea
King Penguin
Kookaburra
Lace Monitor
Lady Ross’ Turaco
Lappet-faced Vulture
Large-spotted Genet
Leaf-cutting Ant
Little Blue Penguin
Llama
Longnose Gar
Magellanic Penguin
Magnificent Flower Beetle
Magpie Goose
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo
Marbled Crayfish
Masai Giraffe
Masked Lapwing
Mexican Wolf
Mini-Juliana Pig
Mosquitofish
Mueller’s Gibbon
Nicobar pigeon
Nigerian Dwarf Goat
Nubian Goat
Ocelot
Okapi
Ornate Horned Frog
Ornate Monitor
Ostrich
Pallas’s Cat
Pancake Tortoise
Parma Wallaby
Pascagoula Map Turtle
Peppered Roach
Peruvian Firestick
Pigeon Guillemot
Pink-backed Pelican
Plains Zebra
Potto
Project Passenger Pigeon
Quince Monitor
Raggiana Bird-of-paradise
Rainbow Boa
Red and Yellow Barbet
Red Piranha
Red-capped Cardinal
Red-eared Slider
Red-Eyed Assassin Bug
Red-kneed Tarantula
Red-lined darkling beetle
Redear Sunfish
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Rhinoceros Katydid
Ringtail
Rockhopper Penguin
Rough Green Snake
Ruddy Shelduck
Saddlebill Stork
Salmon-Crested Cockatoo
Scarlet Ibis
Serval
Smew
Snow Leopard
Southern Brazilian Ocelot
Steller’s Sea Eagle
Sumatran Orangutan
Sunburst Diving Beetle
Tawny Frogmouth
Taxi-cab Beetle
Terciopelo
Texas Bullet Ant
Thick-Billed Parrot
Thomson’s Gazelle
Thorny Devil
Tin-foil Beetle
Titicaca Water Frog
Trumpeter Swan
Two-toed Amphiuma
Two-toed Sloth
Vampire Bat
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
Victoria Crowned Pigeon
Visayan Warty Pig
Water Scorpion
Water Strider
White Lion
White-bearded Wildebeest
White-cheeked Bulbul
White-eyed Assassin Bug
White-Faced Saki
White-Handed Gibbon
White-naped Pheasant Pigeon
White-throated Monitor
Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog
Yellow Rat Snake
Yellow-backed Duiker
Yellow-bellied Beetle
Yellow-rumped cacique
Zebra Bug
Also note that I might have grabbed a few that are on the National Zoo’s list due to differences in the way they are listed. Like Cincinnati listed “African Lion” and National listed “Lion”. I caught that one and a few others. And checked that a few with similar-sounding names were actually different. But I was mostly going off exact name-matching.
BTW, I tried to spoiler that list, since it’s so long. But I can never remember how to do it.
[spoiler]
test
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doesn’t work so I’m not sure what does.
it’s “details”, not “spoiler”
Ah, thanks!
I’m lobbying spacelobster to add the spoiler tag, too, but it wouldn’t be appropriate for this (extremely long) list, as it blurs the words instead of tucking them into a closeable thing.
Jaguar fits.
Also kangaroo.
Kangaroo females are considerably smaller, life expectancy is 10 years, good spirit animal. I dig it.
Jaguar feels like a less likely spirit animal only because there are a lot of big cats.
Yeah, kangaroo seems more likely as a spirit animal unless the Jaguar is a ploy to get the vehicle for her birthday or she was a fan of the football team from Jacksonville or something.
That said, I had a cheetah lick my hand when I was in Africa and that was a pretty amazing experience and I’m pretty partial to cheetahs now.
It can’t be cheetah because the National Zoo has one, but I did check all large cats and noticed that Jaguar was missing.
Jaguars are also carnivorous.
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Totally forgot about this requirement.
[The Good Place]Maybe she is a Blake Bortles fan[/The Good Place]
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Excellent point. Not Jaguar.
Or Jake Jortles!!!
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I went through Twig’s list and came out with the following that meet the criteria:
- Various Primates (though I believe most live longer than 15 years)
- Gazelle/Impala
- Kangaroo
And not on the list, but the correct answer:
- Koalas.
One source
Koalas may live from 13 to 18 years in the wild. While female koalas usually live this long, males may die sooner because of their more hazardous lives.
Another source
Some estimates for the average life-span of an adult wild male Koala are ten years… In the average female’s 12-year life span…
YT’s hint
Hint - Females are smaller than Males in these species. But Females tend to live longer than males, sometimes beyond 15 years
I’m not up for doing the next one though, so someone else can feel free to guess it or try and narrow it down