I saw 2 golden bamboo lemurs at Tsimbazaza Zoo in 1987. One of them was the type specimen for the species.
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Green_mamba
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The headline of a news article about an animal that was unfortunately killed in a shelling at a Russian zoo, refers to the animal as a kangaroo despite the image showing a Bennett's wallaby. The poor wallaby is then referred to as a Bennett's tree-kangaroo!
Kangaroo killed in shelling on Russian zoo.
Kangaroo killed in shelling on Russian zoo.
ilovetimberdoodles
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People seem to prefer to wallaby as kangaroos no matter what even if someone corrects them it is really weird
Green_mamba
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I think in this case kangaroo was shortened from tree-kanagroo. Since Bennett's tree kangaroo is a real species, it makes sence that it could be mixed up with Bennett's wallaby.
At Cincinnati Zoo, I heard someone call the aardvark a narwhal.
At El Paso Zoo, I heard a mother and daughter call the meerkats, in the same discussion, baby coyotes, ferrets, and muskrats.
At El Paso Zoo, I heard a mother and daughter call the meerkats, in the same discussion, baby coyotes, ferrets, and muskrats.
I remembered a funny episode. It happened on Oct. 28, 2022, at the Tropical Animal Pavilion in Seoul Children's Grand Park. There are several species of reptiles on display in the entrance corridor, the last displayed specie of which is the blue-tongued skink. And at that time, a family of about two children, a mother and a grandmother were passing there.
The grandmother was left behind, two fast-moving children and their mother walked past all the other reptiles, and standing in front of the last reptile specie, the blue-tongued skink.
The mother, who glimpsed an explanation attached to the blue-tongued skink tank, explained the blue-tongued skink to her children in a voice full of conviction and confidence...
...Just like this: "It's a stinky skunk!"
For your reference, Skink is written as "스킨크" in Korean word, and Skunk is written as "스컹크". Anyway, I think that mother would have explained to the children without seeing which animals were in the tank. It would be.
After a while, the mother read the explanation again, seemingly feeling strange, and corrected the grave error just before.
...In this time, just like this: "It's not a skunk, It's a skins(스킨스)!"
And they left.
It is not like that in Korea, but animals in zoos are often called "the ambassadors of their species that informs people to their species." And in this case, the sacrifice of the "ambassador" became perfectly useless. What a pity.
The grandmother was left behind, two fast-moving children and their mother walked past all the other reptiles, and standing in front of the last reptile specie, the blue-tongued skink.
The mother, who glimpsed an explanation attached to the blue-tongued skink tank, explained the blue-tongued skink to her children in a voice full of conviction and confidence...
...Just like this: "It's a stinky skunk!"
For your reference, Skink is written as "스킨크" in Korean word, and Skunk is written as "스컹크". Anyway, I think that mother would have explained to the children without seeing which animals were in the tank. It would be.
After a while, the mother read the explanation again, seemingly feeling strange, and corrected the grave error just before.
...In this time, just like this: "It's not a skunk, It's a skins(스킨스)!"
And they left.
The blue-tongued skink of Seoul Children's Grand Park.
Oct. 28. 2022.
Oct. 28. 2022.
It is not like that in Korea, but animals in zoos are often called "the ambassadors of their species that informs people to their species." And in this case, the sacrifice of the "ambassador" became perfectly useless. What a pity.
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Brayden Delashmutt
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That’s really interesting. Maybe because of the Wild Kratts episode?
Brayden Delashmutt
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In addition to these, I’ve heard aardvark, elephant, horse, and rhinoceros
but worst of all…ELEPHANT SHREWS
Brayden Delashmutt
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Honestly, I still am shocked by how many people mess up with iconic animals like big cats. A five year old knows the difference between a lion and a tiger. I’ve heard ocelots called bobcats, mountain lions, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars, lynx, and baby tigers…do people really not know what a cheetah, lynx, or tiger looks like?
Brayden Delashmutt
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Collared Lemurs are also known as collared brown lemurs, so…technically not wrong?
This is a case of outdated taxonomy, not misidentification.
Brayden Delashmutt
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I think that the majority of people only know about hyenas from the lion king, and have no idea what they look like in reality. I’ve heard takins called hyenas, as well as coyotes, dingos, and more. They’re an animal everyone has heard of but has no clue what they look like irl
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Brayden Delashmutt
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One time when I went to the Omaha Zoo with my family and, looking into the indian rhinoceros exhibit, in the ASIAN Highlands, a family member of mine was like “this tiny exhibit is so sad, you know they travel so far out on the African Savannah”
Dr. Wolverine
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I went to a snake park in Bangkok. The 'flying lemur' enclosure contained a red-and-white giant flying squirrel
Dr. Wolverine
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No Colugos are in captivity, though there are wild individuals inside Heart of Africa aviary in Singapore Bird Paradise. Red and white flying squirrel is pretty scarce in captivity tho!
Dr. Loxodonta
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I remember someone calling a V-C Pigeon a Peacock at Whipsnade, I guess for the average visitor this is a rather common reaction as it happened again at London Zoo.
biggest_dreamer
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Super jealous of this, what an awesome animal to see in the wild. It's not unreasonable for someone to not know what a colugo is and flying squirrel is about as good of a guess as you could make, but lol at beaver and platypus regardless.
I'd actually be thrilled. Red and white giant flying squirrel might be my #1 species to see before I die.
It was an attractive animal but I was hoping to see a flying lemur. The people I was with didn't know why I kept going back to the supposedly empty enclosure