World's Stupidest Woman??????

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SabreToothAche

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I'm relatively new to this site so not entirely sure how intellectual you like your posts, but thought i'd share this.

Whilst at Whipsnade on Saturday my son (6) and I were standing in awe looking at the pride of tawny lions, relaxing right up against the glass. There was one magnificent male with an impressive mane and i'd say about eight females.

A family of chavs on a day out making loads of noise (banging on the glass obviously) appeared. The chav daughter (also about 6) said to the chav mother "how do you know which ones are girls and which ones are boys"?

Chav Mother gave it some thought, pointed at the one with the mane and said "That must be the girl, she's got long hair" and followed it up with "lucky bitch, she's got eight boyfriends"

FFS

I felt honour bound for the kids sake to put them straight and got called a know all (nice)
 
Ha,Ha,Ha! I can't believe what I read! Following with her 'argument' ...
It's obvious that naked-mole rats are just (and ever) males, acording his totally lack of 'long hair'
Isn't?
 
The eight 'females' you mention aren't all females. ZSL Whipsnade have four males (Three are castrated, they don't have a mane) and three are female.
 
SabreToothAche said:
Chav mother gave it some thought, pointed at the one with the mane and said "That must be the girl, she's got long hair" and followed it up with "lucky bitch, she's got eight boyfriends"
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That is fairly extreme. See the 'things you see at the Zoo that annoy you' thread for many other examples of weird and wonderful behaviour by visitors.
 
Thankfully the woman was not the world's most stupid, that would be the one who climbs into the enclosure with a bear/big cat etc - sadly it usually ends up dead even though the human is the stupid one!.
 
Thats up there with a man and his son that I over heard a few years back at Animal kingdom.

Everyone is stood watching the Mayalan tapirs. The boy asks his dad "what is it?" the father then replies with "Its a Panda bear!"

I didnt know if to laugh or cry?!
 
Jordan-Jaguar97 said:
The eight 'females' you mention aren't all females. ZSL Whipsnade have four males (Three are castrated, they don't have a mane) and three are female.
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Although castration is the only option available to keep male lions living within the pride, I do often feel a little sorry for them when I see that they have become fully grown, sometimes some of them are huge (far bigger than any female could be) and I wonder what they would have been like with a mane at that stage of their life. (Pootle sympathy!)
 
They only GET huge BECAUSE they've been castrated-it's a side effect-if you research the (human) castrati singers, you will see they were very often giants.

So if they had retained their happy sacks, they would be smaller lions anyway....
 
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Gary said:
They only GET huge BECAUSE they've been castrated-it's a side effect-if you research the (human) castrati singers, you will see they were very often giants.

So if they had retained their happy sacks, they would be smaller lions anyway....
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Interesting, I didn't know about the Castrati being taller and barrell chested so I learned something about them!. I couldn't find anything about castrated lions being larger than they would have been if they had not had the chop, but I don't doubt what you say.
 
Pootle said:
Although castration is the only option available to keep male lions living within the pride,
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I think Vasectomy would prevent more cubs but the males would still stay as 'males'. I don't know how often males have to be castrated to prevent fighting, rather than breeding, however.

Whipsnade used to keep several males(and females) together in their old Lion Dell but times have changed and zoos are a lot more restrictive about breeding their big cats nowadays.

Is castration of males becoming more commonplace now? Are there any Zoos/Safari parks in the UK nowadays which still keep several 'intact' maned males in a pride system with females, or has that all changed now? Longleat definately used to have a number of males living together in their early days.
 
In the United States, vasectomy is the common practice for lions. (We had one at my zoo up until he died a couple years ago). The only time I have seen large, maneless castrated lions was at an exotic rescue shelter here in the states (Nevada) and at Port Lympne in the UK.

Back to the original topic, visitors often refer to our lions as tigers and I heard one or two people Saturday and one person today (all adults) refer to our new baby zebra as a baby giraffe!
 
Arizona Docent said:
Back to the original topic, visitors often refer to our lions as tigers and I heard one or two people Saturday and one person today (all adults) refer to our new baby zebra as a baby giraffe!
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I know perfectly well which are zebra and which are giraffes but for some reason sometimes the wrong word issues from my mouth (it wasn't me at your zoo tho'), I have the same problem with meerkats/lemurs.
 
OrangePerson said:
I know perfectly well which are zebra and which are giraffes but for some reason sometimes the wrong word issues from my mouth (it wasn't me at your zoo tho'), I have the same problem with meerkats/lemurs.
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Try this one then - I obviously had a mentally deficient moment a week or so ago when I inisted on calling the Zebra 'Rhinos' - you couldn't get much more different!! brain refused to let me call the stripey boys anything other than Rhino - most embarrassing! :)
 
We could start a whole thread, or better still a poll "What animal names do you commonly mix up even though you are a bit_of_a/huge/embarrassingly_obssessive (select as appropriate) zoo geek and know the names of some very obscure animals"

Hippo/rhino....
 
OrangePerson said:
We could start a whole thread, or better still a poll "What animal names do you commonly mix up even though you are a bit_of_a/huge/embarrassingly_obssessive (select as appropriate) zoo geek and know the names of some very obscure animals"

Hippo/rhino....
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I think I may have done that once or twice, which is all the more embarrassing when you're a zoo geek. Fortunately, I don't think I've ever said it while trying to politely point out that they're calling an animal something when it's really something else.

I've heard a couple of times that it's preferable to use birth control or do surgery on the female so as not to affect the lion's mane. I didn't know that it was the act of castration vs a vasectomy that causes the mane to not grow in. The zoos I've heard mention about the male's mane not coming in due to surgery to prevent births don't say what type of surgery it is.

On a slightly unrelated note, the two females at the SD Safari Park are on a form of birth control that involves putting it under their skin. It was the first time that type had been used on Lions (that the keepers knew of) and so they didn't know how long it would take to wear off once they stopped administering it. When a tour leader told the keeper the lions had been seen getting friendly she got quite excited about it and asked that any future behavior that was witnessed was reported to the lion keepers so it can be recorded. They are planning for future cubs, but none have been produced since the last litter left the zoo almost 2 years ago. I don't know if they're continuing with the birth control or if it somehow messed up the females' systems.

I believe the current female at the Phoenix Zoo, Cookie, is on birth control since she shares an exhibit with a fully intact male and she can't be bred because of her background being bred as part of the illegal pet trade. They didn't want to do anything to the young male because he's apparently pretty valuable genetics-wise and the carnivore manager told me they hope to eventually get a female to breed to him. Currently they can't have any cubs because they have no room for them and SSP requires they keep the cubs for a minimum of 2 years.
 
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