Misidentified Animals

[Bunnyrich]

Yesterday I heard a guy call our Clouded Leopards "Tigers"

 

[Moorhunhe]

This is going back to 2017.
Standing with a Black Panther, a woman who was talking to her 6-7 year old: Look, you can still see the stripes through the black!

All kinds of wrong in that 1 prase ...

 

[Dassie rat]

Yesterday I heard a guy call our Clouded Leopards "Tigers"

Clouded leopards were called clouded tigers

 

[ZooTripper365]

Red River hogs - warthog

Really don't get this one as they are so common in UK zoos.

Leopards/jaguars - tigers

One has spots, the other has stripes! Get it right please!!!!

 

[PaddyRickMFZ]

Red River hogs - warthog

Really don't get this one as they are so common in UK zoos.

Leopards/jaguars - tigers

One has spots, the other has stripes! Get it right please!!!!

First one is very understandable, but surely everyone knows what a tiger is?

 

[Zhao yun]

A certain person at bird paradise called an emu an ostrich. ???? What was he thinking?

 

[Osedax]

A certain person at bird paradise called an emu an ostrich. ???? What was he thinking?

I very often hear emus called ostriches and ostriches called emus. It drives me mad!

 

[Jambo]

I've heard Saimangs be referred to as Chimps on multiple occasions.

 

[Osedax]

Yesterday I heard otters called baby seals.

 

[Jambo]

Yesterday I heard otters called baby seals.

Never heard that one before! Wow.

 

[Moorhunhe]

Boyfriend heard this one a while ago at Dudley, where the Armadillo house is next to the Wolverine enclosure.
I don't pay much attention to it anymore, but pretty sure there's very big multiple signs about the Wolverine with pictures.
And there's a sign where the Armadillo is too.

He said this person was looking inside the Armadillo house, couldn't spot it, then looked left to the Wolverine, and said: apparently the wolverine is an armadillo without it's scales

 

[Dr. Wolverine]

Yesterday, I heard wild water monitors being called "Komodo dragons". I can understand but at the same time, know that there are more species of monitors than that one iconic species

 

[Bunnyrich]

So I'm at work. Guy comes up to me and asks "hey, last time I was here I remembered you guys having jellyfish and some black seagulls. Where are those?"




......Black Seagulls




HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BLOODY PENGUINS

 

[ZooTripper365]

Whereabouts do you work if you don't mind me asking @Ivan_Richardson?

 

[I Like Zoos]

Ah yes the puffins

 

[ZooNerd]

I find it funny how many people miss identify tapirs

I’ve heard people call them pigs

I’ve heard people call them horses

I’ve heard people call them hippos

And imo the worst comparison I’ve heard was an anteater.

 

[I Like Zoos]

Signs actually exist people

 

[ZooTripper365]

I find it funny how many people miss identify tapirs

I’ve heard people call them pigs

I’ve heard people call them horses

I’ve heard people call them hippos

And imo the worst comparison I’ve heard was an anteater.

I've heard them called little elephants!

 

[Bunnyrich]

Whereabouts do you work if you don't mind me asking @Ivan_Richardson?

I work at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

 

[Dr. Wolverine]

I find it funny how many people miss identify tapirs

I’ve heard people call them pigs

I’ve heard people call them horses

I’ve heard people call them hippos

And imo the worst comparison I’ve heard was an anteater.

I've heard this myth that Tapiers eat nightmares. It was interesting until I heard it whenever I went to the tapir enclosure. I've also heard Malayan tapirs being called Pandas...