Animals That Simply Don't Interest You

I've gotta be honest, I'm a frickin' peasant. I love seeing every animal in captivity except the ones that are extremely Blackfished (Seaworld, lookin' at you)
 
Kakapo said:
I think that there is a thread with similar content somewhere, but I'm too lazy to search :p

In order of increasing interest:

0 > Humans.
1 > Any domestic mutant of a commonly seen species (domestic goat, house cat, dog, bugdie, goldfish...)
2 > Any domestic mutant of a less commonly seen species (tenebrose pheasant, black-winged peacock, lutino/blue "not so common" parrots, veiled-tailed tropical fishes...)
3 > Species seen too often (common pigeons or common species of insects in the wild, meerkats, camels, crowned cranes, yellow tangs etc in zoos) unless I don't have a nice picture of them
4 > Cichlids
5 > Species seen often, but from which I still have only bad pictures
6 > Species rarely seen from which I have good pictures
7 > Species seen often from which I lack completely any picture (raccoon dog for example)
8 > Species rarely seen from which I have bad pictures (would be especially pleased by a Pallas's cat)
9 > Species rarely seen from which I have no pictures
10 > Species rarely seen from which I have no pictures and from groups that give me goosebumps (cetaceans, rarer cats, butterflyfishes, rarer hoofstock...)
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I got to agree with you on that one
 
I don't get that excited seeing domestic livestock in a zoo, hence why I avoid any sheep/goat petting areas at zoos that have them.
I'm also not really enthusiastic about grizzly bears; I like seeing them, but other bear species pique my interest more, like spectacled bears.
 
NVP said:
I don't get that excited seeing domestic livestock in a zoo, hence why I avoid any sheep/goat petting areas at zoos that have them.
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I agree but I usually check them out because every once in a while a zoo will sneak something odd into the farm areas.

~Thylo
 
Ebirah766 said:
Sure :confused:

I'm aware of the good work SeaWorld does, but I still don't like their orca/cetacean program
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What do you want them to do? Their Orcas are non-breeding afaik and most of their cetaceans are rescues, do you want them to euthanize them all or something??

~Thylo
 
NVP said:
What kind of surprises have you seen in petting barnyards?
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Beardsley Zoo keeps porcupine, Snowy Owl, Great Horned Owl, American Barn Owl, Ocellated Turkey, raven, various waterfowl, several exotic invertebrates, and a variety of American herps in their petting zoo area. In the recent past they kept Diamondback Terrapin and opossum here as well.

~Thylo
 
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ThylacineAlive said:
Beardsley Zoo keeps porcupine, Snowy Owls, American Barn Owl, Ocellated Turkey, raven, various waterfowl, several exotic invertebrates, and a variety of American herps in their petting zoo area. In the recent past they kept Diamondback Terrapin and opossum here as well.

~Thylo
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Interesting. Actually, if I remember right, I saw what I'm pretty sure was a Visayan warty pig nearby the petting barnyard at the Phoenix Zoo.
 
NVP said:
Interesting. Actually, if I remember right, I saw what I'm pretty sure was a Visayan warty pig nearby the petting barnyard at the Phoenix Zoo.
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Dallas Zoo has a Six-Banded Armadillo and an aviary with fig-parrot and other birds in theirs as well.

At LA if you skip the children's playground you'll miss the Visayan Warty Pig and Calamian Deer.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
What do you want them to do? Their Orcas are non-breeding afaik and most of their cetaceans are rescues, do you want them to euthanize them all or something??

~Thylo
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Regardless of opinions on cetacean captivity, most of SeaWorld's cetaceans are not rescues. Unless Cetabase is completely off-base on their records, the vast majority of the current animals were born in captivity with only a few rescued animals among them.

Also, to avoid derailment, I'm just not that big of a fan of monkeys or most apes. I don't hate them, and I'm at least fond of gorillas, but I don't really get excited about them. Something about the uncanny valley, I think. I'm not entirely comfortable with "too-human" animals.
 
Hammy said:
Regardless of opinions on cetacean captivity, most of SeaWorld's cetaceans are not rescues. Unless Cetabase is completely off-base on their records, the vast majority of the current animals were born in captivity with only a few rescued animals among them.
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My fault for lack of clarity, I mean any new cetaceans which come in (which will include the occasional rehabilitation and release animals) should be rescues if I'm not mistaken. The bottlenose dolphins will be captive bred mostly I think, and the Orcas will be wild caught, but aren't the pilot whales and other species at the other SeaWorld's rescued individuals? If not then I was mistaken.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
My fault for lack of clarity, I mean any new cetaceans which come in (which will include the occasional rehabilitation and release animals) should be rescues if I'm not mistaken. The bottlenose dolphins will be captive bred mostly I think, and the Orcas will be wild caught, but aren't the pilot whales and other species at the other SeaWorld's rescued individuals? If not then I was mistaken.

~Thylo
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You're correct in that case. Yes, the pilot whales in Orlando and San Diego are rescued, and it looks like San Antonio has some bottlenoses and a beluga classed as rescued.
 
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