CHALLENGE: Create an interesting exhibit with a "boring" animal!

Kakapo said:
You and me must have completely different concept of what is a "boring" animal... Especially, a lanceolated jay would be enough to me for plan a visit to the country where is the zoo that holds this dreamed species!!!
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FBBird said:
Sorry, none of these are boring, all very exciting. There are only two boring species in the world, and even they're not THAT boring...
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Kakapo said:
You and me must have completely different concept of what is a "boring" animal... Especially, a lanceolated jay would be enough to me for plan a visit to the country where is the zoo that holds this dreamed species!!!
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The last Lanceloated Jay I saw was in the Murree Hills of Pakistan in 1978 .
 
Here in Brazil there's a lot of stingless bee species and it's as easy and cheap to set beehives for them as for Apis bees, except a) they're native species (people often forget that Apis are mostly invasive when "educating" about how they're important for the "plant$", although they still important and not as bad as some other invasive species out there) and b) people can actually get close to them (some of the species will at maximum try to enter your orifices and get stuck in your hair if you get too close, which is not the case of the Tetragonisca angustula established in the lower trunk of a tree that kids are climbing all the time from one of my city's local parks). A enclosureless exhibit with natural-looking beehives (this kind of bees establish themselves inside of tree trunks), little windows to show how they stock their honey in small pots rather than in honeycombs and etc could inspire local people to protect the (right) bees and show that meliponiculture actually exists.
 
It's the first time that I've seen calling the Clupeiforms as "passerines". But that's would be not a surprise if it's done by modern taxonomists, they're very able to lumpo Passeriformes and Clupeiformes in a single order :p
Anyway I don't find clupeiforms as boring! They're rarely exhibited at aquaria (most are pelagic + planctivore and thus difficult to keep in captivity), and that alone makes them very interesting. Plus the way of coordinate schools they form is fascinating!
 
I call them that because they're like the small birds of the fish world. They are in huge groups and have a flight response.
 
In 2013 Discovery Cove had a large school of sardines in their snorkeling pool. I watched them scatter as a massive Southern Stingray swam through the middle which was really cool.

~Thylo
 
A kind of interesting exhibit for a boring species could be an underwater view for tigers for seeing them swimming.
 
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