USZOOfan42
Well-Known Member
When I was at Omaha zoo I saw a guy jump into the water in the night exhibit as to try and catch a fish, as you can guess security did not like his “joke”.
Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo? #2
- Thread starter birdsandbats
- Start date
People confuse meerkats and lemurs with each other way more often than you’d think possible.
Today at Hellabrunn Zoo i noticed it seems like that some Visitors dosent even know anymore what a Greater Flamingo is. Some Visitors said big pink Things and some said pink Birds. And i thought everyone knows what a Flamingo is.
Oh boy do I have a list for you!
Beware I am kind of misanthropic if you couldn't tell
1.People at the Zoo are the loudest, noisiest animals there!
People talking at all at the Zoo irritates me, because I go to the Zoo to enjoy the landscapes and sounds of the animals. I don't want to go to the Zoo just to hear the chitter chatter of loud people.
Every time I go to the Zoo my enjoyment gets diminished by other visitors. I know it may sound selfish of me to say, but I'd argue it's also selfish of other visitors to flap their jaws when others are trying to enjoy the Zoo in peace.
Why can't we all just watch the animals in silence.
So, pretty much the rest of the list is going to be an effect of the first point. As, if these people weren't so loud I would have never found out about their conversations in the first place.
2.Entitled People
I once heard an annoying that young man looked to be in his 20s say to a tamarin monkey that he would sue him if it didn't yell at him, and he went on to talk about making his money's worth from the Zoo.
Now this young man was likely joking and all since he was with a few companions, but it still annoys me because you just know that this is the same sentiment of entitlement people have for these animals.
They all want to see the animals do something interesting, but they are too selfish to understand that things don't work that way. People like him need to learn patience and appreciate the times when the animals DO decide to get up and take action. It's like you are expecting to see something like a meteor shower and getting upset when you don't see one when you look up at the sky at night.
For me I am just glad to be able to see the specimens in person.
3.People being disrespectful to the Animals
Now this category isn't necessarily causing harm to the animals, because they have no clue what people are saying however
*I once saw a kid from a family complain about a cougar not doing anything, called it boring and moved on to the next exhibit. This irritated me because it's clear that these people just don't appreciate the value of seeing an animal in person. Even if it was just lying around, it was still a thing of beauty.
*I've heard some rude kids talk about the wild bovid, and cervids talk about these beautiful specimen as if they were some dairy cow that belonged to their dinner plate.
As if their already corpulent stubby bodies need more food...
4.People harassing the animals
Some people think it's a good idea to act brave when they are outside an enclosure, and bang on the Lion exhibit glass, or scream at a Jaguar.
Well thankfully, most of the time the predators don't care enough to pay attention, but unfortunately their screaming does agitate the ones outside the encloser (me).
5.Mothers disciplining their children
Loud mothers with loud children are the worst combo ever. On one hand you feel the second hand embarrassment and awkwardness of a child being scolded by their mother which kills the mood. If they wanted to teach their kids a lesson, they should have done so at home... Maybe I am just unsympathetic because I don't have a kid yet, but I don't get what is so hard about training your kids to be on their best behavior in public.
6.People being painfully obtuse
It's the age old classic of tomato, toe-mato but crikey... Look I get it. The lay people don't care about facts as much as having a good time, but it is so cringe listening to ignorant laymen talk about the animals.
Sometimes they make funny foolish comments like "The bears at the Zoo being two men in a suit"
I mean even I once jokingly called a baby Nyala an "African Bambi" knowing I was wrong.
But sometimes these comments get out of hand and become too much to tolerate.
7.People getting the wrong idea about the animals
There was this one lady at the Zoo talking about how much she understood why people keep Bobcats as pets.
I was cringing, facepalming, and dying inside all at the same time.
The Zoo should not be inspiring people to obtain these wild animals as pets.
How many times do we have to teach people that wild animals are not house pets and should never be...
They think tame animals are domesticated, which clearly shows a lack of knowledge on what domestication is... perhaps Zoos should start doing more educational exhibits on domesticated animals, so people can learn the difference
Beware I am kind of misanthropic if you couldn't tell
1.People at the Zoo are the loudest, noisiest animals there!
People talking at all at the Zoo irritates me, because I go to the Zoo to enjoy the landscapes and sounds of the animals. I don't want to go to the Zoo just to hear the chitter chatter of loud people.
Every time I go to the Zoo my enjoyment gets diminished by other visitors. I know it may sound selfish of me to say, but I'd argue it's also selfish of other visitors to flap their jaws when others are trying to enjoy the Zoo in peace.
Why can't we all just watch the animals in silence.
So, pretty much the rest of the list is going to be an effect of the first point. As, if these people weren't so loud I would have never found out about their conversations in the first place.
2.Entitled People
I once heard an annoying that young man looked to be in his 20s say to a tamarin monkey that he would sue him if it didn't yell at him, and he went on to talk about making his money's worth from the Zoo.
Now this young man was likely joking and all since he was with a few companions, but it still annoys me because you just know that this is the same sentiment of entitlement people have for these animals.
They all want to see the animals do something interesting, but they are too selfish to understand that things don't work that way. People like him need to learn patience and appreciate the times when the animals DO decide to get up and take action. It's like you are expecting to see something like a meteor shower and getting upset when you don't see one when you look up at the sky at night.
For me I am just glad to be able to see the specimens in person.
3.People being disrespectful to the Animals
Now this category isn't necessarily causing harm to the animals, because they have no clue what people are saying however
*I once saw a kid from a family complain about a cougar not doing anything, called it boring and moved on to the next exhibit. This irritated me because it's clear that these people just don't appreciate the value of seeing an animal in person. Even if it was just lying around, it was still a thing of beauty.
*I've heard some rude kids talk about the wild bovid, and cervids talk about these beautiful specimen as if they were some dairy cow that belonged to their dinner plate.
As if their already corpulent stubby bodies need more food...
4.People harassing the animals
Some people think it's a good idea to act brave when they are outside an enclosure, and bang on the Lion exhibit glass, or scream at a Jaguar.
Well thankfully, most of the time the predators don't care enough to pay attention, but unfortunately their screaming does agitate the ones outside the encloser (me).
5.Mothers disciplining their children
Loud mothers with loud children are the worst combo ever. On one hand you feel the second hand embarrassment and awkwardness of a child being scolded by their mother which kills the mood. If they wanted to teach their kids a lesson, they should have done so at home... Maybe I am just unsympathetic because I don't have a kid yet, but I don't get what is so hard about training your kids to be on their best behavior in public.
6.People being painfully obtuse
It's the age old classic of tomato, toe-mato but crikey... Look I get it. The lay people don't care about facts as much as having a good time, but it is so cringe listening to ignorant laymen talk about the animals.
Sometimes they make funny foolish comments like "The bears at the Zoo being two men in a suit"
I mean even I once jokingly called a baby Nyala an "African Bambi" knowing I was wrong.
But sometimes these comments get out of hand and become too much to tolerate.
7.People getting the wrong idea about the animals
There was this one lady at the Zoo talking about how much she understood why people keep Bobcats as pets.
I was cringing, facepalming, and dying inside all at the same time.
The Zoo should not be inspiring people to obtain these wild animals as pets.
How many times do we have to teach people that wild animals are not house pets and should never be...
They think tame animals are domesticated, which clearly shows a lack of knowledge on what domestication is... perhaps Zoos should start doing more educational exhibits on domesticated animals, so people can learn the difference
Lori Patton
Well-Known Member
Earlier this afternoon I was having a lovely time viewing the new male snow leopard at the Los Angeles Zoo when all of a sudden this young man came up right behind me and started yelling about the "tiger." A little boy in his group said it was a snow leopard, but the young man (whom I estimate to be in his early twenties) still kept calling it a tiger. He then proceeded to yell at it hollering the name "Robert" to get its attention -- the leopard's name is most certainly not Robert. I was leaning over to take a picture when this man yelled so loudly in my ear that I felt his breath. He continued to shout and harass the poor snow leopard so much that I got disgusted and left the exhibit. I really don't know how people can be raised up to be so ill-mannered.
cornu aspersum
Well-Known Member
It's strange that the man specifically decided to call it Robert. Is the leopard's name similar to Robert?
It's probably some stupid TikTok meme or something. That guy's brain was more rotten than an Easter Egg at Christmas.
Lori Patton
Well-Known Member
The male snow leopard's name is Kailash and the female's is Georgina. When I heard him say "Robert," I actually thought he was calling a friend, but I looked around and there was no one there except the small group he was with (two women and a kid). Then he kept hollering the name towards the snow leopard with commands to "come here." He also started making barking noises, etc.
Does going for a jog in a wolf enclosure count as irritating?
Woman in intensive care after being attacked by wolves at safari park near Paris
Woman in intensive care after being attacked by wolves at safari park near Paris
How does that even happen? Do some Zoos just not bother with security? Also aren't safari parks not usually supposed to have free roaming carnivore exhibits? (At least the ones in WAZA parks)
This reminds of an incident at Naples Zoo where a Tiger had to be put down because of a trespassing night shift employee (who was not even authorized to go near the exhibit btw).
Sadly they are very likely going to put down those Wolves as well.
Lafone
Well-Known Member
All of the articles I’ve seen say zoo has made no comment - can you link the one where they state the wolves will be destroyed?
I don’t understand the point about zoos in the AZA not having free roaming carnivores - this is in France and in any case many safari parks in Europe have carnivore exhibits that are driven through.
To get into an enclosure in a drive through she would have had to pass signs and probably gates. Someone who knows the park can probably comment on how the area is constructed but it sounds mightily stupid on her part.
Lafone
Well-Known Member
Just to add apparently there are electric plates preventing the animals exiting - not sure how they work but it seems weird to jog past it all.
“In this area, “vehicles can enter and exit and there are electrified plates which limit the exit access of animals” , but these plates “do not intervene on human beings” , explained the safari director. . She added that signs outside this area remind people of “the rules of survival” to follow in the park”
https://www-lemonde-fr.translate.go...uto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
“In this area, “vehicles can enter and exit and there are electrified plates which limit the exit access of animals” , but these plates “do not intervene on human beings” , explained the safari director. . She added that signs outside this area remind people of “the rules of survival” to follow in the park”
https://www-lemonde-fr.translate.go...uto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
No, official statements I am just going off a hunch because usually if a large carnivore attacks a human they are typical put down even if it was non-fatal.
I admit, I have yet to go to a Safari Park so forgive my ignorance.
Agreed I am unknowledgeable on this zoo/safari park as well
Lafone
Well-Known Member
I’m in the same boat as you where this zoo is concerned - first I’d heard of it - so I wouldn’t worry!
In the day time when cars are moving through, the parks I’ve been to have some sort of supervision going on in the areas with large / dangerous animals (so they can intervene if a car is attacked or some idiot gets out of one) - but out of hours it wouldn’t be there. Though someone was around to hear her and get the wolves back in.
I would hope the zoo won’t destroy the wolves given they were only acting as they would naturally do if someone ran past on foot.
cornu aspersum
Well-Known Member
Despite not knowing much about the park, I believe it's more likely the wolves are going to be put somewhere were the public can't access them or being moved elsewhere rather than being destroyed. The latter has happened in Pittsburgh with the painted dogs I believe, and the Sumatran tiger in South lakes who killed a keeper was also not destroyed albeit put off show for some time from what I understand (I am not sure about this point so I could be wrong).
It´s basicaly plates with integrated horizontal hotwire net that lie on the road at places where the road crosses animal pen fence. You can walk or drive over it freely as long you sit in car or you wear shoes with soles. You are isolated and thus it doesnt "work on human beeings" .
Unless you have a small child in tow that does want to run barefoot for a bit (seen it more than once, results in hysterical children and parents that want to skin zoo staff alive).
Aardwolf
Well-Known Member
Going to offer a quick correction here for your statement, "No, official statements I am just going off a hunch because usually if a large carnivore attacks a human they are typical put down even if it was non-fatal" but that is not accurate.
Zoo personnel will typically use deadly force against animals if they need to in order to save a person who is in danger, or sometimes if it is needed to retrieve the body. If there is no risk to human safety - say, an animal is driven back and secured into holding, then there is no action taking against the animal. This doesn't work like it does with domestic dogs, where if one attacks a person they are considered dangerous and a threat to public safety, because a lion, or tiger, or what have you is OBVIOUSLY dangerous, and no one is supposed to interact with them directly. In those cases, the animal isn't unusually dangerous or aggressive, and there's nothing "wrong" with it that requires the public be protected from it - it's simply behaving like an animal of its species.
When Samantha Kudewah was killed by a tiger at the Hamilton Zoo in 2015, for example, the tiger was not euthanized. When that little boy was killed by the African wild dogs in Pittsburgh in 2012, one dog was killed to allow staff to get the body back. None of the others were. In fact, the other dogs were sent away from the zoo because of fears that people might try retaliating against them.
While it may have happened in the past, especially with elephants, zoos typically don't "execute" animals that interact with visitors, especially in cases where no one was killed.
Zoo personnel will typically use deadly force against animals if they need to in order to save a person who is in danger, or sometimes if it is needed to retrieve the body. If there is no risk to human safety - say, an animal is driven back and secured into holding, then there is no action taking against the animal. This doesn't work like it does with domestic dogs, where if one attacks a person they are considered dangerous and a threat to public safety, because a lion, or tiger, or what have you is OBVIOUSLY dangerous, and no one is supposed to interact with them directly. In those cases, the animal isn't unusually dangerous or aggressive, and there's nothing "wrong" with it that requires the public be protected from it - it's simply behaving like an animal of its species.
When Samantha Kudewah was killed by a tiger at the Hamilton Zoo in 2015, for example, the tiger was not euthanized. When that little boy was killed by the African wild dogs in Pittsburgh in 2012, one dog was killed to allow staff to get the body back. None of the others were. In fact, the other dogs were sent away from the zoo because of fears that people might try retaliating against them.
While it may have happened in the past, especially with elephants, zoos typically don't "execute" animals that interact with visitors, especially in cases where no one was killed.
People who climb on rocks despite plenty of signs saying not to do that, in multiple languages.
Parents who don't keep their children sufficiently in line and let them run around to run into or be run into by other visitors on walkways, or to run around, play around and scream in queue areas.
Parents who don't keep their children sufficiently in line and let them run around to run into or be run into by other visitors on walkways, or to run around, play around and scream in queue areas.
NNM.
Well-Known Member
Yes, this infamously leads to children falling into gorilla exhibits and a child being eaten by wild dogs.