...that I most want to see (and haven't yet)
1. Mountain gorilla. I know, shame on me, so many years in Africa and I never got up to see them. Gorillas in the Mist was the last movie to make me cry (though it shames me to admit it but Monsters Inc was close - I love that film), and I feel a strange link to Diane Fossey merely because she died on my birthday.
2. Javan Rhinoceros. I have tried to find this once before, in one of only two sites it is known to still exist (two individuals were found not so long ago in Vietnam, a small miracle as they were presumed extinct in that country fifty years ago). Perhaps only thirty individuals of this entire species remain, and there are none in captivity.
3. Snow Leopard. If you need to know why, look one up in a book. Just beautiful.
4. Water Mongoose. This one is out of sheer bloody-mindedness. In all my years in the Okavango and Linyanti I never saw this relatively common species (the bird equivalent is the Quail Finch) and it bugs me.
5. Orca. Probably the easiest of this list to get to, and I have glimpsed them in the distance from Kaikoura in New Zealand, but would very much like to go kayaking with them now that they have changed their name from Killer Whales. I'm sure that has made them much more pleasant.
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