Jokes Only a Zoochatter Would Understand

[Great Argus]

Yep, well-known merely means you hit the post threshold. There's a lot of well-known members that crept over the mark by generally lurking and only occasionally posting.

 

[PossumRoach]

 

[Nile Hippo Expert]

 

[TeaLovingDave]

1) that has pretty much zero connection to the thread topic.
2) you could have so easily thought better and not hit "post"
3) as an expert on hippopotami, you should know that the specific epithet within a taxonomic name is never capitalised, as you have done in this meme

 

[StoppableSan]

Gonna rustle some jimmies with this (For real, I do get that NYA and Prospect Park Zoo have been hammered by tropical storms and do deserve the attention they've gotten, but when you're managing 5 parks...)

 

[StoppableSan]

If you know, you know.

 

[Dassie rat]

Emmen? Mmmm. Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

 

[dillotest0]

An orca biologist from Alaska went on an expedition by herself to observe the local pods.

She did not return.

Why?

Because Orcinus ater!

 

[Cassidy Casuar]

 

[dillotest0]

Lynx Edicions announces they have taken over the Spanish National Library for their personal company.
They are enquired; to make sure that all of your books are in supply to the needy public?
No, they respond.
It is for the publication and storage of a brand new encyclopaedia of theirs; documenting all of the world's known species of invertebrate.

 

[Nile Hippo Expert]

When the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has a newly born Cape Buffalo, they say "One baby cape buffalo isn't enough, how about...





...until we have infinity of them."

 

[NNM.]

I don’t share this opinion, to be fair.

 

[birdsandbats]

Yangtze Finless porpoise, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis - ZooChat

 

[steveroberts]

(the last almost ten years, not 100% accurate but starting to feels a bit like)

''We have some good open range zoos in Australia: Werribee, Monarto and even that private one Altina is good''

''And Western Plains''

''....Ok, sure.. and Taronga Dubbo one too I suppose''

 

[dillotest0]

A board of zoo planners and such sits at a table. One person comes out, "I've been on the phone with the director from Germany, and we've been talking about our new Central Africa exhibit."
"Right." Another one says. You two took a while.

"It was just... he said something about having meerkats in the new exhibit. It was a while of 'are you sures'... but we agreed to disagree."

"Very well. People love meerkats, anyways."

"And he said... something about them... swinging in trees?"

"Whatever! People love them. Meerkats it is!"

So the zoo planners set up the exhibit so that the meerkats don't make it totally unfeasible.
When the day of opening comes, everyone is confused to see the meerkats in the exhibit, but especially the zoo director. He sees one of the zoo planners and goes up to her.

"Say. vhy is ze exhibit full of Surikats?"

"What?"

"Ze tan, digging things."

"Ah, you wanted meerkats in the exhibit for whatever reason, so we got them."

The zoo director's face goes from confusion, to anger, to disappointment.

 

[Austin the Sengi]

If you give @Brum TNT, will friendly banter ensure or does he simply explode?

 

[Osedax]

When my mate tries to say the word "rural":

 

[KiwiBirb]

Visiting the Bronx Zoo today:

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Visiting the Bronx Zoo today:
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They've been posting about it all day online

~Thylo

 

[KiwiBirb]

They've been posting about it all day online

~Thylo

I’ve been taking a break from social media this week so I didn’t realize, but going to the zoo today, you’d think it was any old day. I will say the social media team has done a great job with the history posts this year!