30 Most Bizarre Zoo Signs

LOL some of those were brilliant! :D

The monkeys damaging the car sign is at Longleat, and the Tamarin being sick is at Marwell. Though I never noticed that the former said the monkeys would also steal your car! :p
 
Haha, the dinosaur one is from Toronto Zoo. They also had the do not annoy, torment, etc sign up until the mid 90s. I love that rebirth sign :D
 
While not exactly a strange sign, I remember the one on the Bongo enclosure at the Berlin Zoo. Their signs are in four languages (German, English, French and Spanish) but the international name for the species is Bongo. So on the sign you have the name four times in a row! (German: Bongo; English: Bongo; French: Bongo; Spanish: Bongo)

Sidenote: the Icelandic name for Bongo is 'Skógarhafur' which roughly translates as 'the Buck of the Forrest'. Many Icelandic animal names derive from the works of late naturalist and translator Óskar Ingimarsson. In the 1980s he was chiefly responsible for translating an Italian animal encyclopedia called 'Grande Enciclopedia Illustrata degli Animali' and he also translated numerous other books and TV programmes on wildlife. It is mainly thanks to him that we have some very Icelandic names for many animals and not just ones translated half-heartily out of other languages.
 
Baldur said:
Sidenote: the Icelandic name for Bongo is 'Skógarhafur' which roughly translates as 'the Buck of the Forrest'. Many Icelandic animal names derive from the works of late naturalist and translator Óskar Ingimarsson. In the 1980s he was chiefly responsible for translating an Italian animal encyclopedia called 'Grande Enciclopedia Illustrata degli Animali' and he also translated numerous other books and TV programmes on wildlife. It is mainly thanks to him that we have some very Icelandic names for many animals and not just ones translated half-heartily out of other languages.
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Can´t help but to comment on the sidenote. That is an interesting story and if I am not mistaken, the language spoken on your distant island (!) is the most original, archaic - and the language least affected by other languages - in Europe. I very much like that! A Nordic language, though one that us northerners a bit further south, honestly I am afraid, have great trouble understanding today - written as well as spoken.

"Skog" (forest), though, is the same word that we use in Sweden.
 
lol All great

Favorites include "Don't run you look like food" and "Birds poop every 15 mins. How long you been standing there?"

And for some reason "Caution! Aggressive Crane" made its mark on me too:D
 
Haha! Brilliant, although some of them do look a bit like they've been made on a computer but oh well. My particular favourite was 'Gorillas may slap the glass, you may not!'. Haha.
 
I don't remember where this was but many years ago I noticed a sign on an empty vivarium annoncing the inhabitants to be a newly arrived pair of invisible tarantulas, the world's deadliest spider. The male could easily be identified by the large purple spot on the head. People actually looked for them.
 
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I've seen a Brolga Peck a little girl on the nose... It bleed...
 
bongorob said:
I don't remember where this was but many years ago I noticed a sign on an empty vivarium annoncing the inhabitants to be a newly arrived pair of invisible tarantulas, the world's deadliest spider. The male could easily be identified by the large purple spot on the head. People actually looked for them.
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Now that would be hilarious watching people trying to find them and getting frustrated when they couldn't.
 
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