Spot the Obvious Mistake

what mistake?

Hm, I wonder how that got mixed up
Funny!

@drill ''Saimiri sciureus''

Sad to say that there are far worse mistakes dotted throughout the galleries. Someone should compile a thread documenting them!

I think an otherwise fairly good sign but with the wrong scientific name is quite unusual. I wonder if someone put it there deliberately because they knew only a zoo nerd would notice.

It happens all the time - the signs will all be made from the same template and someone's just forgotten to change one of the text boxes.

@Brum one of my favorites is this one (barely visible, but at the top of the photo):
Green Anaconda Exhibit | ZooChat

I enjoyed this one, from a French zoo, for a striped hyena: well, the picture at least looks a little hyena-ish, and the animal has stripes....
Striped hyaena sign, July 2016 | ZooChat

My personal favourite was the Sumatrano Rangutan
from Chester's Islands promotional boards!

It's funny when zoos make mistakes on signages, like the ones you all described.
Saimiri Sciureus (squirrel monkey, not bat eared fox), The green anaconda exhibit sign (anacondas can't attack a pygmy hippo, they live on completely different continents), The striped hyena signage (it is an aardwolf on the sign, not a striped hyena), and the misspelled sumatran orangutan (they put in the space one letter too late.)