Who and how many zoochatters have you met?

Here is my updated list:

polar bear (at Los Angeles Zoo)
mstickmanp (at Los Angeles Zoo)
zoonewsguy (at Los Angeles Zoo, Reid Park Zoo)
teamtapir - both of them (at Reid Park Zoo)
snowleopard (at Reid Park Zoo)
jbnbsn99 (at Dallas Zoo, dinner in Dallas, Reid Park Zoo, dinner in Tucson, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum)
ituri (at Reid Park Zoo, dinner in Tucson)
zoofan75 (at Reid Park Zoo)
betsy (at San Diego Zoo)
lightninghorse (longtime friend who I introduced to ZooChat)
zoomaniac (at dinner in Zurich)
plus one other European member (whose ZooChat name I prefer not to reveal, but it's nothing bad so don't start any rumors)
 
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I met and spoke to a couple of Zoochatters at the last opening weekend at the RSCC:

oflory
migdog (and his wife)

Probably most people there that day were also zoochatters, but they were the only ones I talked to

I'm also starting to recognise a few regular faces at London and Whipsnade, one of which might be Tim May, but haven't plucked up the courage to say hello yet
 
Crowthorne said:
I'm also starting to recognise a few regular faces at London and Whipsnade, one of which might be Tim May, but haven't plucked up the courage to say hello yet
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I visit both London Zoo and Whipsnade regularly; should our paths cross at either collection (or at any other zoo) then do, please, say "hello".
 
there should be some sort of secret signal or badge that Zoochatters use, to enable recognition of unknowns amongst the crowd.
 
Chlidonias said:
there should be some sort of secret signal or badge that Zoochatters use, to enable recognition of unknowns amongst the crowd.
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Maybe we could wear T-shirts with our avatar printed on the front of it.

And maybe our username underneath (for those that change their avatars periodically).

On the back could be printed "www.zoochat.com".

:p

Hix
 
we could all get a Crimson Chat tattooed on our forearms or necks...?
 
Tim May said:
I visit both London Zoo and Whipsnade regularly; should our paths cross at either collection (or at any other zoo) then do, please, say "hello".
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I'll make sure to come and say hello next time :)
 
Chlidonias said:
there should be some sort of secret signal or badge that Zoochatters use, to enable recognition of unknowns amongst the crowd.
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Spending vast amounts of time waiting at the enclosure for an obscure species would probably be a giveaway :p this is certainly what allowed me to meet my first ever Zoochatter, which was GentleLemur at Edinburgh Zoo - he had seen me patiently waiting by the Marbled Polecat enclosure for some time, and approached me to enquire if I happened to be a member of Zoochat as only another zoo enthusiast would be *that* patient with something as obscure as a Marbled Polecat!

Thinking on the matter, I haven't updated my list of "Zoochatters met" for some years now - might as well do so now :) apologies to anyone I omit, as this list is in no particular order and I am sure there are Zoochatters whom I have met but not heard the username of.

zoogiraffe
bongorob
Nisha
Javan Rhino
AgileGibbon
Gentle Lemur
Tim May
Maguari
Robmv
Zoospud
Secret Squirrel
Ophidia
Sooty Mangabey
Tim Brown
Brum
devilfish
IanRRobinson
Animal
Hongabonga
FelidLover
Nanook
Shorts
Hevden
Bwassa
Bele
Paradoxurus
zooman64
zooman
Orangeperson
Karoocheetah
Mazfc
JordanJaguar97
Tarsius/Zebraduiker/BibFortuna etc
Trigger
Kifaru Bwana
Wolverine
SMR
dogman
Simon McGlary
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Spending vast amounts of time waiting at the enclosure for an obscure species would probably be a giveaway :p this is certainly what allowed me to meet my first ever Zoochatter, which was GentleLemur at Edinburgh Zoo - he had seen me patiently waiting by the Marbled Polecat enclosure for some time, and approached me to enquire if I happened to be a member of Zoochat as only another zoo enthusiast would be *that* patient with something as obscure as a Marbled Polecat!
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I think our paths crossed several times during that day, but we only stopped simultaneously beside the polecats. It was 10th September 2011, which I only know because I just looked at our photos in Gallery :)



Alan
 
gentle lemur said:
I think our paths crossed several times during that day, but we only stopped simultaneously beside the polecats. It was 10th September 2011, which I only know because I just looked at our photos in Gallery :)
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Possibly, but it was certainly by the polecats late that day that you first spoke to me and asked me if I was a Zoochatter!

You got rather better photographs than I did that day :p but I did manage to get good shots of the species at Magdeburg some years later.
 
I have never knowingly met another ZooChatter in the real world, at a zoo or otherwise. Admittedly I don't get to the Zoo as often as many of what I consider to be the hard core members of this site (those that go more every couple of months or so) though I do do a lot of observation of animals in other scenarios e.g. farm animals, wild animals (namely birds). This is due to the fact that I kind of live in the middle of nowhere (though kind of central to everywhere). The nearest zoos that I consider to be on ZooChat's radar are each more than an hour from me, by car (and in the case of Franklin Park, the Museum of Science, and NEAQ by T and/or bus), and I hate sitting in the car, thus I do not go as often so I don't have as many chances to run into other people from here. It doesn't help that I am paranoid and don't advertise my plans ahead of time (but I have good reason to be paranoid, ask me sometime.)
 
Met only very few sofar :
zooman
devilfish
Javan Rhino
Agile Gibbon
and several Belgium zoochatters with which I however didn't speak so actualy I will not count them.
 
I'm in such an isolated area I've never met any Zoochatters. Although if anyone happens to pass through North Dakota that could change.
 
The problem is that most zoochatters use pseudonyms so there is little chance that I would recognise one.
 
As a small update to my list, I've also now met Zoospud :)
 
Chlidonias said:
you need to learn the secret greeting.
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