Animal Stereotypes That You Hate

Animals R AMAZING! said:
I mean they are responsible for (or atleast contributed to) the spread of a number of diseases so I definitely wouldn’t say they are super clean or anything. I don’t think they are terrible but I wont exactly disagree with those that do.

I don’t think this one is all that common. I’ve heard it in the past but not that often.

Why does it enrage you? Yes, elephants don’t really have a preference for peanuts and a lot of people think that they do but it’s nothing to get all mad about. That’s a little dramatic if you ask me ;):p

Anyway, I’ll add a couple to the list…
- Koalas and pandas are super cuddly and gentle.
- Solitary animals living at zoos are lonely and sad.
- Cheetahs and mountain lions are big cats.
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That remind me that I was going to add that koalas ain’t bears!!!
 
More like an extreme mild annoyance, but zebras are just stripy horses and neigh just like one too.

Zebras are more related to asses and donkeys in the family tree as they split off about 2 million years ago vs 4 million with horses. Asses and zebras have upright manes (albeit Przewalski's horses have them too) and tasseled tails vs the hairy tails on domestic horses.

Common zebras actually make "barking" noises and Grévy's zebras bray like their donkey relatives.

Plus, zebras aren't ridden because their kick is dangerous enough to kill a lion and it's said that while a horse may just buck one off, a zebra will bite and kick one to death.
 
The ones that come to my mind:

-Sharks are vicious and dangerous man-eaters
-Insects are pests
-Moths eaths clothes
-Bugs (Hemiptera) sucks blood
-Talking about tiger species, leopard species... (giving subspecies the same or more importance than species in other groups)
-Thinking only in domestic animals (and especially dogs) when one mention "I like animals"
-I work in a seafood factory. Once we received a triggerfish (Balistes capriscus). At that time I didn't had photo of this species. Triggerfishes have certainly a strange appareance. I wanted to take a photo and mentioned "oh I love to take photos of strange animals". My pal replied: Well... "strange"... it's a fish.
So, considering "fish" as a whole group with the same importance than individual species of genus in big mammals...
-Accepting blindly absolutely ridiculous modern taxonomy just because somebody purposed something absurd, and against the whole science previous to it.
 
Kakapo said:
-Accepting blindly absolutely ridiculous modern taxonomy just because somebody purposed something absurd, and against the whole science previous to it.
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Funnily enough, this isn't a stereotype about an animal :P it is, however, hilarious that you find ways of shoehorning your obsession with pretending you were raised on an understanding of taxonomy dating to the 1940s and that this, therefore, is the fixed and immutable truth (when in fact, you are the same age as me and therefore are making a conscious choice to reject the taxonomic understanding you were raised with) into entirely unrelated topics.

Unless the stereotype you hate is that the species involved are now espousing modern taxonomy themselves, in which case that's a stereotype I have never stumbled across before ;)
 
Some are stereotypes, others are just inaccuracies. Might also be some repeats but these are ones that get to me badly.

That pythons size up their prey and skip meals to prepare for a huge meal. I especially heard this a bit when I had a ball python who was on a hunger strike, that he was preparing to eat me.

That hyenas are scavengers. Also that hyenas are dogs. I still remember my biology teacher agreeing with one of my classmates that hyenas are dogs after I told him they aren’t.

People mixing up hyenas and wild dogs. While hyenas are dog-like, I can’t see how one would confuse these two species. I was at Zoo Miami a few days ago, and I died a little inside each time I heard people cheer or say “Hyenas!” while watching the wild dogs.

People saying snakes are evil and sneaky. They’re just reptiles who are trying to survive. I’d imagine being limbless and on the lower end of the food chain would make one act a certain way to ensure their survival.

People putting baby before a baby animals’ term. For example, baby kitten or baby chick. Those terms already address that the animal is a baby. You wouldn’t say baby infant.

That rabbits love carrots. Giving them too many carrots isn’t actually good for them.

Ducks love bread. Bread is harmful to ducks.

That tigers live in Africa. I’ve had people actually tell me I’m wrong when I said tigers aren’t native to Africa and are only found in Asia.

Opossums can’t get rabies. Any mammal can, it’s just unlikely for opossums to have rabies due to their lower body temperature.

Penguins and polar bears share habitats. Holiday decorations and similar things commonly portray and feed into this inaccuracy.

People saying koala bear instead of just saying koala.
 
Davdhole said:
Some are stereotypes, others are just inaccuracies. Might also be some repeats but these are ones that get to me badly.

That pythons size up their prey and skip meals to prepare for a huge meal. I especially heard this a bit when I had a ball python who was on a hunger strike, that he was preparing to eat me.

That hyenas are scavengers. Also that hyenas are dogs. I still remember my biology teacher agreeing with one of my classmates that hyenas are dogs after I told him they aren’t.

People mixing up hyenas and wild dogs. While hyenas are dog-like, I can’t see how one would confuse these two species. I was at Zoo Miami a few days ago, and I died a little inside each time I heard people cheer or say “Hyenas!” while watching the wild dogs.

People saying snakes are evil and sneaky. They’re just reptiles who are trying to survive. I’d imagine being limbless and on the lower end of the food chain would make one act a certain way to ensure their survival.

People putting baby before a baby animals’ term. For example, baby kitten or baby chick. Those terms already address that the animal is a baby. You wouldn’t say baby infant.

That rabbits love carrots. Giving them too many carrots isn’t actually good for them.

Ducks love bread. Bread is harmful to ducks.

That tigers live in Africa. I’ve had people actually tell me I’m wrong when I said tigers aren’t native to Africa and are only found in Asia.

Opossums can’t get rabies. Any mammal can, it’s just unlikely for opossums to have rabies due to their lower body temperature.

Penguins and polar bears share habitats. Holiday decorations and similar things commonly portray and feed into this inaccuracy.

People saying koala bear instead of just saying koala.
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A biology teacher who didn’t know that hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs :confused:
That koala thing really gets me, as I mentioned previously in this thread. I get that they look like bears, but jeez people, it’s 2021 (almost 2022), we have the internet, ebooks, public libraries and more, it ain’t that hard to find info anymore.
 
Bengal Tiger said:
That koala thing really gets me, as I mentioned previously in this thread. I get that they look like bears, but jeez people, it’s 2021 (almost 2022), we have the internet, ebooks, public libraries and more, it ain’t that hard to find info anymore.
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Honestly I never understood while koalas were even called bears at all, as I see almost no similarities between them.
 
Bengal Tiger said:
I get that they look like bears, but jeez people, it’s 2021 (almost 2022), we have the internet, ebooks, public libraries and more, it ain’t that hard to find info anymore.
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From ABQ Biopark thread:

Bengal Tiger said:
How is this disease transmitted?
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Just saying, since you point at the availability of information. ;)
 
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Great Argus said:
From ABQ Biopark thread:



Just saying, since you point it the availability of information. ;)
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@Bengal Tiger I just searched up EEHV on google and found tons of articles, and there is also tons of discussion on ZC itself so yeah it “ain’t that hard to find info” on the virus on your own :p

Anyway in response to what you posted in this thread, most people don’t care enough about koalas to do their own research but clearly you cared enough about EEHV to ask about it, so what stopped you from doing you own research prior to asking your question ;)
 
birdsandbats said:
This is true, even if it harmful to them I've never seen a duck pass up bread.

I had no idea this wasn't true until now.
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True, but I still hate this stereotype because it will just lead to more hurt ducks because most people will continue to go by this rather than go out of their way to find out what's safe to feed them.
 
Of course, there’s referring clownfish and tangs (and sometimes reef fish in general) as Nemo and Dory. But the really bad part that somehow hasn’t been talked about yet is the fact that both films appear to be anti-captivity, and the second one in particular involves the “rescue” of some marine life from an aquarium, which in real life would probably be a pretty good, conservation-minded aquarium. So ironically, it would be somewhat hypocritical to refer to the films’ characters in the context of aquaria.
 
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