Warthog

Overheard behind me:
Daddy, I found the Rhino.

At least it was a innocent child saying that. I've heard multiple adults getting the basic animals mixed up. And some of them are just ridiculous.

One of my favourite conversations that I ever heard at the zoo was a mom and her child at the white rhino exhibit and it went something like this:

Child: Mom, is that a dinosaur?
Mom: Of course! It's a rhinosaurus.

Was she at least joking, because that's understandable. If not, than it's a little sad.

Most people think the Cheetah's are Leopards. Usually the kids are correctly the adults on that fact. Some most adults insist it's a Leopard, until they see the Cheetah signs.

I hope it was a joke, but based on the way the mom said it, I'm guessing it wasn't. If she was telling a joke, it's still wrong because the child actually thought that he was looking at a dinosaur.

The worst one i heard was the lemur was.... "part cat, part monkey, part squirrel".. yeah try to explain that one to me

Someone once called a Tiger the Orange Bear. How do you not know what a Tiger is? Or sometimes people get the Lions and Tigers mixed up. Not sure how that's possible either.

Ok providing Articwolf's dino mom was just joking... please let her be joking... I would have to say not knowing what tiger and lions are is the winner of pathetic and makes me question the education system that spit those geniuses out. Though if the mom really thinks dinos still live and a rhino is one then she is a candidate for the Darwin Awards.