Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo?

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Komodo99 said:
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.
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Oh my god the same happened to me while walking through Forest Of Birds at Bristol Zoo! Unfortunately the child succeeded as I'm 5'4 and 22 so I couldn't have said anything anyway cos his mom was there -_-
 
natel12 said:
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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I witnessed a fully grown, middle-aged adult tapping on the glass and whistling at the gibbons at London Zoo while they were being fed because he wanted to take a photo of them -_-
 
Spooky_Skellington said:
Children screaming at or imitating the animals on display and their parents encouraging them :mad:

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...
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Oh my god, I f***ing HATE this! I tell ya, every time I go by the wolf enclosure at Barcelona zoo, there's some dumb kid/s obnoxiously howling. Also, there was a ringtailed lemur was very close to the glass, and this little girl knocked the glass and hissed at it! Dumb brat! Fortunately, in THIS case, the parents properly admonished her bad behavior. I appreciate that.
 
Spooky_Skellington said:
Oh my god the same happened to me while walking through Forest Of Birds at Bristol Zoo! Unfortunately the child succeeded as I'm 5'4 and 22 so I couldn't have said anything anyway cos his mom was there -_-
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I'm 5'11 so I must seem quite intimidating in size to them.But the good thing is the teachers in the group made him stay towards the back of the group so they could keep an eye on him.
 
JigerofLemuria said:
Oh my god, I f***ing HATE this! I tell ya, every time I go by the wolf enclosure at Barcelona zoo, there's some dumb kid/s obnoxiously howling. Also, there was a ringtailed lemur was very close to the glass, and this little girl knocked the glass and hissed at it! Dumb brat! Fortunately, in THIS case, the parents properly admonished her bad behavior. I appreciate that.
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Omg that's awful, I try to satisfy myself by imagining how they'd feel if a stranger walked up to them and started mocking their voice :P

At Wild Place last week, a child ran down the ramp that leads to the covered viewing area at Wolf Wood (it's a bit like a log cabin) on to the path towards his mom and all 6 of the European wolves ran towards the viewing area.

European wolves typically survive on a diet of large prey such as moose, deer, wild boar, small vertebrates, invertebrates, vegetables, berries and small children on occasion :P
 
Komodo99 said:
I'm 5'11 so I must seem quite intimidating in size to them.But the good thing is the teachers in the group made him stay towards the back of the group so they could keep an eye on him.
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It's good that the teachers were actually doing their job then ;) it seems to be older, secondary school aged kids that are allowed to go around zoos without adult supervision and are really badly behaved a s a result.

I just remembered another one! People shouting "hello" at parrots ¬¬
 
When I was at Chester a couple of weeks ago there were loads of people outside the lion enclosure going ROAR! at the lions :confused:
 
It also bugs me when people think that they can get away with smoking e-cigarettes even though smoking is prohibited at zoos.
 
Another thing I noticed at Chester in the new play area opposite the lions and Komodo dragons, I noticed a woman who seemed to be changing a baby's nappy in full view of the public when the changing rooms where not that far.Plus it didn't seem she was using a changing mat.
 
Water Dragon said:
It also bugs me when people think that they can get away with smoking e-cigarettes even though smoking is prohibited at zoos.
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Some zoos do have designated smoking areas but you will always get some idiot who thinks there above the rules.Good thing security will remove them if they start causing problems.
 
What is also irritating is when people find it HILLARIOUS whenever an animal urinates or defecates. With kids I can understand, but full grown adults? Come On!
 
Spooky_Skellington said:
Or people who think it's funny to film animals mounting each other (whether out of dominance or for reproduction) and post it online :/
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But sometimes it is funny. Just because it's sex and the animals take it seriously doesn't mean you have to. The people I know who work with Bonobos laugh about it all the time.

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Hix
 
FunkyGibbon said:
A lot of people seem to have gotten zoos and funerals mixed up....
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I wouldn't be caught dead at a funeral. Oh, wait...


About nine-tenths of this thread boils down to "regular zoo-goers don't know as much about animals as I do, and they are therefore complete idiots - this makes me very angry." I wonder if there are similarly-veined threads on forums for Harley-Davidson enthusiasts or petunia growers, or if it is just peculiar attribute of Zoochatters.
 
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