Given the low status of animal rights and quality of zoos in Turkey, they're the right ones to open their traps...
Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo? #2
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"Sea Otter!"
It's a Fisher...
It's a Fisher...
Also I would hope that you reprimanded the offender with a stern rebuke over not knowing what a Fisher is. What an idiot that person must have been, right?I wish I had a zoo near me that had this problem
I remember one time when I was the only kid actually looking at the signs and being polite to other visitors. And then some mum and her child came over. The mother turned round, complety elbowing me in the stomach and I fell down. Did she even realise? No. And the worse thing was that the animal in there was an orangutan and she said " Hey the chimpanzee looks tired in there". It is literally orange. I got so triggered in my mind but in reality I just walked away.
An ORANGUTAN IS ORANGE!
An ORANGUTAN IS ORANGE!
Yesterday is saw someone purposely trying to annoy a coati by dragging an aluminium can over metal fencing. The coati wasn't the only one that was annoyed.
littleRedPanda
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I was enjoying watching some young Orangs quietly roll around with each other yesterday, while some inconsiderate attention seeking Chimp dragged an assembly of plastic cartons around the concrete perimeter of his enclosure behind me. Noisy bugger was at it for about half an hour!
littleRedPanda
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Bryan, I think. He was hilarious.
How could anyone not know what a Pekan is? The very name of Pequam says it all! The Wejack is a very recognizable animal. Shame on he who does not know the Woolang. I see no way one could possibly be confused over what a Fisher Cat is.
~Thylo
The otter vs seal vs sea lion was a big issue when I went to Oregon Zoo last year. The seals and otters are next to one another, with a kelp tank in between and a big curve if you're doing the enclosed/underwater viewing vs water level. It was really hot so I stopped and watched the seals several times (seating and AC? yes please). The number of people who thought the seals were otters, despite signage, was unbelievable. A lot of people thought the seals were sea lions, too (I believe they had one lion until a few years ago?). On my last stop I decided I was going to stop trying to politely educate and just enjoy watching the animals. I ended up speaking up again, though, when one mom was telling her daughter to look at the seals and another woman informed her that no, they were sea lions. If you're going to try and correct someone, at least be right!! I explained a few of the differences, which lead to a guy trying to mansplain to me stuff I know but hadn't said because hello, I'm talking to a woman who can't read a sign and is with her toddler, I don't think she gives a **** about minor differences and things that aren't super obvious, like generally brown = sea lion and gray = seal.
During that entire time, there was a toddler who kept standing at the glass and screaming any time the animals came close (which was at least once a minute, given they were swimming mostly in a circle). Turns out her mom wasn't even in the underwater viewing area, she was somewhere else.
During that entire time, there was a toddler who kept standing at the glass and screaming any time the animals came close (which was at least once a minute, given they were swimming mostly in a circle). Turns out her mom wasn't even in the underwater viewing area, she was somewhere else.
So you TinoPup-splained, and got a mansplain for that? Fair deal; quid pro quo.
It's more about knowing your audience. The average person isn't going to care, or remember, every single detail that separates them, and things like seals tending to be more solitary vs sea lions are very social aren't so easy to observe in zoos. Color, length of front flippers, shape of back flippers/movement on land, those are obvious things that people might remember for next time. If they're already noticing the length of the flippers, one having nails and hair on those flippers vs the other not doesn't really matter and is only going to overwhelm them and make them stop caring.
If you're trying to tell someone the difference between a lion and a tiger, you're going to primarily stick with color and stripes and mane on males, not tell them every little thing.
That really annoys me too.
Also recently, I heard people calling a leopard a cheetah, a lion, and a tiger. I get the confusion with cheetahs, but lions and tigers? Just, how?
Given how popular and charismatic big cats are you'd really think people would take more care in the differences between them. Spots =\= stripes. Not that hard to get behind.
Not as bad but I get a little irked over how often stock cougar sound effects are likened to "tiger sounds" by people. It's even worse when media actually does apply those sounds to tigers, though (but usually it's reserved for leopards, which are in reality more like death metal vocalists compared to cougars' high pitched voices). But I guess the former kind of stems from the latter. If a tiger ever actually did sound like that I'd be concerned it was very very ill!
Not as bad but I get a little irked over how often stock cougar sound effects are likened to "tiger sounds" by people. It's even worse when media actually does apply those sounds to tigers, though (but usually it's reserved for leopards, which are in reality more like death metal vocalists compared to cougars' high pitched voices). But I guess the former kind of stems from the latter. If a tiger ever actually did sound like that I'd be concerned it was very very ill!
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