Brazilian aardvarks

I saw this today in the star of all places and they had a pic of an African aardvark!
 
Brazilian Aardvarks.

Wha...?



This is the Telegraph? I don't align with its politics but I at least credited it with a bit of intelligence. Seems at least some of the minds behind it are a bit lacking! :D
 
The Icelandic newspapers have frequently convinced me that I probably know next to nothing about animals, despite an interest in them since childhood and visits to around 120 zoos around the world. But they get their photos and news from sources like Reuters and such.

There was a photo of a Siberian Tiger in one newspaper not so long ago. I must admit that the cat looked more like a Serval to me, but what do I know?

I also got a bit worried when one newspaper printed a photo of a Rhinoceros at Antwerp Zoo many years ago. I frankly thought the animal looked more like a Hippopotamus, but the journalist must have been right if he said it was a Rhinoceros.

I have also seen fox referred to as mink and vice versa. I guess it makes no difference, both are small carnivores. And a dolphin was refered to as Minke Whale, both live in the ocean so again it makes no difference.

And yes - I'm being sarcastic here.
 
lol if you think that's bad, here's a scan of a publicity pamphlet from WWF (The Worldwide Fund For Nature) for the 1991 release of tuatara postage stamps in New Zealand. The animals depicted in the photos on the cover and inside the pamphlet are common iguanas!! (I tried uploading the scan of the inside of the pamphlet but it wouldn't work for some reason)
http://www.zoochat.com/744/tuatara-stamp-promotional-pamphlet-156935/
 
Maybe they thought that Tuataras are so rare that no one would notice... xD Probably not! Of all organizations, you'd think WWF would get it right. There website has a wealth of information.
 
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