Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes

[Pantheraman]

There's the idea that dholes are the most successful hunters in the Indian forest. One person on social media says they succeed 80% of the time. But this is not the case.

The hunting success rate of dholes was discovered in Kanha National Park, and the success rate is 20%.



https://ruffordorg.s3.amazonaws.com/media/project_reports/08.09.08 Detailed Final Report.pdf

So like most land predators, dholes fail more than they succeed. Now let's compare it to the other two predators, tigers and leopards.

Tigers are successful only 10% of the time, so yes, dholes are more successful than tigers. Leopards, on the other hand, can have hunting success rates of up to 38%, granted this varies from place to place.

What African Predators Have the Highest Hunting Success Rate?

I'm not aware of any of their hunting success rate statistics in India. But it's likely it's either similar to or higher than the dhole's hunting success rate.

 

[Dassie rat]

I went to the Natural History Museum. A list of organisms studied in an information centre included 'animals, insects'. I pointed this out to a volunteer.

 

[Pantheraman]

As some of you fellow members and browsers may or may not know, I've been posting about the misinformation spread by the Dhole Conservation Fund.

Due to my latest post, it has come to my attention that I always seem angry whenever I do speak about them on here. I did not realize this until @Chlidonias pointed it out. (Thank you for that by the way). Even today, I still felt bitter about it. And so I realized this organization's misinformation had a negative effect on my happiness.

So from this day forward, I will no longer follow them on social media. Nor will I try contacting them in any way shape or form. I know they will not change.

I will likely speak of dhole misinformation in the future, but the best thing I can do is to help teach as many people as possible about these woefully unknown canids (by the general public).

And last but not least, I'm sorry for being angry about the organization, especially with my last post. I admit I could've handled it better.

 

[splendens]

Saw this at the san diego zoo

 

[Dassie rat]

There's also a customer being attacked by a cat

 

[splendens]

looks kind of like a fuzzy face hugger.

 

[Dassie rat]

The customer or the cat?

 

[splendens]

Probably the cat

 

[Birdsage]

“Belgian Hunchback Canary”? Apparently, that breed doesn’t exist.

 

[Chlidonias]

“Belgian Hunchback Canary”? Apparently, that breed doesn’t exist.

Yes it does. There is a picture of it in that image you posted, at the bottom right.

 

[Birdsage]

I think that's a joke. I was saying that the breed illustrated does not exist in reality. There are no real photos of this purported breed; all media I can find include this exact illustration. Hopefully you know what I really meant, and that my picture is just an illustration.

 

[MRJ]

I think that's a joke. I was saying that the breed illustrated does not exist in reality. There are no real photos of this purported breed; all media I can find include this exact illustration. Hopefully you know that this is what I really meant.

Using Google I've found out that the breed dates back to the 17th Century but seems to have died out in the second world war. There was a very similar Scottish breed as well, and I did see a photo of that breed so "hunchback" canary breeds did exist.

 

[TeaLovingDave]

There are no real photos of this purported breed; all media I can find include this exact illustration. Hopefully you know what I really meant, and that my picture is just an illustration.

the breed ...... seems to have died out in the second world war.

You're both wrong, but MRJ is a lot closer to the truth - the breed *is* real and still exists now, as do photographs depicting it.

It appears that all remaining individuals result from the second attempt to reconstruct the breed after extreme inbreeding resulted in the original form being all but lost (the first attempt being the population lost during WWII) - so although the breed is no longer the original pure form, there *is* a Belgian Hunchback Canary:

The main source I could find was the below:

TOEKIE-WORLD BIRDS - BELGISCHE BULT - BISSU BELGE

 

[Birdsage]

Interesting. I have seen similar pictures, but not with that name attached.

 

[MurphyFox]

The sign at a North American River Otter exhibit:

 

[Dassie rat]

'Amazing Animals' by Eric Carle depicts an orang-utan and a gibbon with tails.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

'Amazing Animals' by Eric Carle depicts an orang-utan and a gibbon with tails.

Such basic anatomy failures are common with stylized depictions of animals.
Also mandrills in Jumanji: Next level have tails. Meant to be fictituous animals in a magical reality (while other animals look as real world ones) they shouldn't have been identfied by characters as mandrills at least. Mandrill-like monkeys in Hunger Games: Catching Fire look better.

 

[Dassie rat]

The Camden New Journal (28/4/22) has a review of 'The Velvet Queen' about a quest to film the 'Tibetan snow leopard'. A photo of the 'star' shows a Pallas's cat. Somebody used the wrong cat identification manul.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Can you supply some lynx to this manul?

 

[Dassie rat]

Only if I get a glass of colocolo