Stupidest Exhibit Ideas Ever

OstrichMania said:
I honestly don't know whether it's stupid or genius.
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Realistically how is the tortoise going to get off those train track things if it manages to slide into it? They're way too heavy to be lifted at arm's length, you'd need a crane if it happened :D
All in all I think it's innovative, but no-one ever said that innovative doesn't mean insane :p
 
amur leopard said:
Realistically how is the tortoise going to get off those train track things if it manages to slide into it? They're way too heavy to be lifted at arm's length, you'd need a crane if it happened :D
All in all I think it's innovative, but no-one ever said that innovative doesn't mean insane :p
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It wouldn't slide, the bars look flat.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Umm a man-made kitchen is not a native habitat, and how is creating a fake kitchen cheaper than creating a fake wooded or grassy areas?

~Thylo
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My comment of being cheap is more about how their are lot of
unnecessary expensive enclousres (asian temples are a good example, which are also, unlike human living sapces NOT the native habitat of animals like elephants or tigers)

"Native" exhibits fit much better to species who life in them exclusively.
 
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GiratinaIsGod said:
Mice and Humans coevolvred for over 10 000 years.In such an extant that the majority of the population of many mice and rat species is compleatly dependent on human life.

And my comment of being cheap is more about how their are lot of
unnecessary expensive enclousres (asian temples are a good example, which are also, unlike human living sapces NOT the native habitat of animals like elephants or tigers)

"Native" exhibits fit much better to species who life in them exclusively.
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No, they didn't... Even if so, for the vast majority of those 10,000 years humans did not have kitchens :p I have not heard of a single rodent species which is dependent on human life for the continued survival except for species which have become endangered due to human interference.

As for the cost, a small mammal enclosure for a rodent will always be cheaper than major exhibits for megafauna such as great apes, big cats, and elephants.

~Thylo
 
GiratinaIsGod said:
Mice and Humans coevolvred for over 10 000 years.In such an extant that the majority of the population of many mice and rat species is compleatly dependent on human life.
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No they didnt...

In order for them to be dependent on us, we'd have to care for them. In many wild rodents, pests for example, they benefit off of us and our belongings, but in no way do they depend on them.
GiratinaIsGod said:
And my comment of being cheap is more about how their are lot of
unnecessary expensive enclousres (asian temples are a good example, which are also, unlike human living sapces NOT the native habitat of animals like elephants or tigers)
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Mice and rats did not evolve into the "kitchen pest" niche. Neither did humans. These are wild animals, not kitchen appliances ;) :P.
GiratinaIsGod said:
"Native" exhibits fit much better to species who life in them exclusively.
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I do like the look of this exhibit, but it definitely is not the native mice/rat habitat.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
.... but in all seriousness, probably the worst exhibit I have seen in pure terms of "WTF were they thinking?" was a certain mixed exhibit for Spectacled Bear, Brazilian Tapir, Capybara, Spider Monkey, Asian Short-clawed Otter, South American Coati and Buffy-headed Capuchin.
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Sounds awful (to put it as mildly as possible ) and considering that the capuchin species you mention is critically endangered I sincerely hope that none of these ended up being killed.
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Sounds awful (to put it as mildly as possible ) and considering that the capuchin species you mention is critically endangered I sincerely hope that none of these ended up being killed.
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TeaLovingDave said:
Your hopes, sadly, are in vain.
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Didn't they have Sapajus apella, not S. xanthosternos? So they weren't getting the super endangered species killed, but still awful nonetheless.

~Thylo
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Honestly I'm lost for words though quite a few four or five letter words come to mind to describe whoever thought that a mix like that was a good idea and would work out.
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Just do a search on the forum for "David Gill" and "South Lakes", and rest assured you are but one in a long line to rue the day he ever opened a zoo......
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Just do a search on the forum for "David Gill" and "South Lakes", and rest assured you are but one in a long line to rue the day he ever opened a zoo......
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Never heard of him until now but I will do a search as I'm morbidly curious to learn more about these Frankenstein style "experiments" in animal husbandry.
 
Although the enclosure it’s self in my opinion is far from bad the idea is stupid, the exhibit is trying to represent pollution but instead of the normal route it makes half the tank ‘polluted’ and the other pristine. The lighting makes it awkward.

Slipper Lobster/Fish Tank - ZooChat

EDIT: photo credit to WhistlingKite24
 
Yoshistar888 said:
Although the enclosure it’s self in my opinion is far from bad the idea is stupid, the exhibit is trying to represent pollution but instead of the normal route it makes half the tank ‘polluted’ and the other pristine. The lighting makes it awkward.

Slipper Lobster/Fish Tank - ZooChat

EDIT: photo credit to WhistlingKite24
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I think it looks pretty cool, actually.
 
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