Yes, a haggis is a Scottish dish made from offal and cooked in the animal stomach (and is very delicious!) however there are many children and mythology books that suggest haggis are small furry creatures that run around the glens but are rarely seen.... as neither of my girls had come across a Grey-legged dourourcouli before but are aware of the legend of the Wild Haggis - my youngest put 2 and 2 together and came up with her most logical answer! She will never live it down ;-)
Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo?
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So I was talking to a keeper and told her about this forum and asked her what the dumbest things visitors did that she saw, and she told me one field trip group a few years ago were throwing rocks at lions, but they got what they deserved and got kicked out immediately. Another thing that happened was she was working in one of the petting yards and they explain the rules before allowing guests in, and a kid literally did everything she said not to do and jumped on and sat on one of the goats. 
Komodo99
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Couple of things I saw during a trip to Blackpool zoo today.
1.A capybara being misidentified as a beaver
2.Someone either vomited or spilled rice pudding in the giraffe house
3.Young girl 5-7 crying and being embarrassed by her father
4.Kids banging on the glass,luckily parents/teachers quickly put a stop to this
1.A capybara being misidentified as a beaver
2.Someone either vomited or spilled rice pudding in the giraffe house
3.Young girl 5-7 crying and being embarrassed by her father
4.Kids banging on the glass,luckily parents/teachers quickly put a stop to this
Last summer at the Lincoln Park Zoo, a kid had... an accident involving pee on one of the play structures, and a keeper or janitor or whoever notified us to be careful of dripping pee xD
Guess it's not irritating per se but it is a bit funny to say the least
Guess it's not irritating per se but it is a bit funny to say the least
Water Dragon
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When you try to point out an animal to someone but they just can't see it!!!
(I hold my hands up here though, I am quite guilty of it myself
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(I hold my hands up here though, I am quite guilty of it myself
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Maybe a 5 year old girl went to the zoo with her father, who misidentified a capbara as a beaver and was so embarrassed by him, she burst into tears. The father, in an effort to cork her cry-hole, lobbed a overfilled cup of rice pudding in her general direction but oversetimated the trajectory of the dessert and instead, liberally coated the floor of the giraffe house. The father, mortified by his lack of accuracy, banged on the glass of the nearest enclosure with frustration, prompting a visiting mime school to copy him, in a display of inspired synchrony, until their perfomance was interupted by their parents and caregivers for fear of upsetting some of the more sensitive animals in the collection.
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Komodo99
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What zoo was this? Hearing people exclaim over the smallest thing is a pet peeve that I'm certain plenty of people on here have.
Gigit
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I'm surprised you heard this so much. I rarely hear it at school, it would be inappropriate to post what I hear more often...
Water Dragon
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At Chester yesterday we were at the False Gharial enclosure. This mum started playing with her 3-4 year old child and said something like 'it's a crocodile... Snap! Snap! It's going to eat you up!' and it absolutely traumatised the child, sending it screaming at top note!
Komodo99
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Way to go,encourage an ignorant fear in a child,it's not hard for a child to remember something that scares them.Plus it goes against the point of education when idiots like this are going to spew utter crap like this.At Chester yesterday we were at the False Gharial enclosure. This mum started playing with her 3-4 year old child and said something like 'it's a crocodile... Snap! Snap! It's going to eat you up!' and it absolutely traumatised the child, sending it screaming at top note!
Water Dragon
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Even worse, whilst we were going round the zoo some kid started singing Harambe
Komodo99
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I remember that idiot,they don't even have gorillas at Chester and it was near the spectacled bears,no resemblance at all,Even worse, whilst we were going round the zoo some kid started singing Harambe
Water Dragon
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Speaking of which, I once spoke to a guy about the zoo and he was convinced that Chester had gorillas and I said 'no they have chimps' and he was like 'no they don't! They have gorillas! I saw the silverback and everything!'
On my break yesterday, I decided to go up to the zoos gorilla habitat. Our baby gorilla decided to go up to the glass and climb on it. Then, a young child decided to go up and slam himself on the glass, scaring the gorilla and running away. At the same time, the parents were laughing. Just like every time I see this happen, I explain why you shouldn't tap the glass, and how it scared the gorilla. When they didn't listen, i pretended to reach for my radio, and they stopped and walked away. For anyone who works at a zoo, that trick works every time!
Komodo99
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That's one of the funniest things I have ever heard.Bet they won't try that again and hope the kid learnt a lesson too.On my break yesterday, I decided to go up to the zoos gorilla habitat. Our baby gorilla decided to go up to the glass and climb on it. Then, a young child decided to go up and slam himself on the glass, scaring the gorilla and running away. At the same time, the parents were laughing. Just like every time I see this happen, I explain why you shouldn't tap the glass, and how it scared the gorilla. When they didn't listen, i pretended to reach for my radio, and they stopped and walked away. For anyone who works at a zoo, that trick works every time!
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Children screaming at or imitating the animals on display and their parents encouraging them
I went to London Zoo for the first time in May (and loved it, it's amazing!) and while walking through Land Of The Lions, a family with 2 young children were trying to get the male lion's attention by roaring at him. When that failed, the mom started making "meow" and "woof woof" noises at him ¬¬.
Also unattended groups of school children. It seems that a lot of visiting secondary school groups let the students split off into groups of 3 or 4+ without a supervising adult. So they're often very loud and rowdy and refuse to listen when staff tell them to stop banging on the glass. They also seem to have very little interest in the animals on display and seem to get excited about vending machines or bouncy slides...
I went to London Zoo for the first time in May (and loved it, it's amazing!) and while walking through Land Of The Lions, a family with 2 young children were trying to get the male lion's attention by roaring at him. When that failed, the mom started making "meow" and "woof woof" noises at him ¬¬.
Also unattended groups of school children. It seems that a lot of visiting secondary school groups let the students split off into groups of 3 or 4+ without a supervising adult. So they're often very loud and rowdy and refuse to listen when staff tell them to stop banging on the glass. They also seem to have very little interest in the animals on display and seem to get excited about vending machines or bouncy slides...
Komodo99
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I had a similar experience at Blackpool zoo a few weeks back.For the most part the school groups controlled the children but there was this one child who decided that he would be first to see an animal and would deliberately try to get past other visitors just so he was first.He tried to get in my way as I was walking towards the caimans but luckily I'm quite tall which made him go back to his group.Children screaming at or imitating the animals on display and their parents encouraging them
I went to London Zoo for the first time in May (and loved it, it's amazing!) and while walking through Land Of The Lions, a family with 2 young children were trying to get the male lion's attention by roaring at him. When that failed, the mom started making "meow" and "woof woof" noises at him ¬¬.
Also unattended groups of school children. It seems that a lot of visiting secondary school groups let the students split off into groups of 3 or 4+ without a supervising adult. So they're often very loud and rowdy and refuse to listen when staff tell them to stop banging on the glass. They also seem to have very little interest in the animals on display and seem to get excited about vending machines or bouncy slides...
So today I went to the zoo as a trip so I couldn't say anything but this grown man was doing a poorly sounding siamang call and he wouldn't shut up and he actually thought that the siamang were calling because of him. And when this guy was at the gorilla exhibit he was saying "hey monkeys wake up monkeys" I was quite annoyed with this man. He said something else stupid but I can't recall what he said
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