Dumbest One star zoo reviews

ZooNews2024 said:
If you check the USA section of the gallery on here, you will see it is quite common - plastic slides, climbing frames, balls and other childrens toys; sometimes in enclosures that would have cost hundred of thousands of dollars to theme to look natural.
It does take the edge of a zoo experience somewhat, if an enclosure looks like a cross between a budgie cage and a council tip...!
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Yes I totally agree! Old children toys are not meant to be reused by animals and it also totally ruins the look of the exhibits.
 
I have a fondness for the 1 star review of Hamerton that describes how some of the birds on show had tragically died from some terrible treatment dished out in the zoo and mentions the writer had to tell his granddaugter the poor dead things were all asleep. It includes a handy photo of the victims...dead hen chicks used as food.

I get that this sort of feeding could be misunderstood by a visitor but Hamerton actually go out of their way to sign that the chicks (a by product of the egg industry) are used for this and why.

I'd love the review even more if the writer had said he had to tell his granddaughter that the carrots, apples, cabbage and lettuce he will have seen in other enclosures were also 'all just sleeping'. But no such luck.
 
A one star review I saw on trip advisor about Attica zoo said that the animals except for the smaller mammals, the birds and the butterflies were all drugged because they were sleeping and not doing anything. It does state that it might have been due to the high temperature, but then dismisses that point. (To clarify that March, when the review was written, was the hottest march of the last 15 years)
Also the review states that the animals that didn't do much were the rhinos, the crocodiles and the lions... I mean, doesn't that person know that lions like most big cats mostly sleep and crocodiles like all reptiles like to bask in the sun?
 
Rohin said:
While they can look unsightly, in some cases the toys provide good enrichment for the animals, who don't really care about the appearance of those toys.
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Fair enough I guess old kids toys do stimulate the animals brains lots of the time but sometimes at zoos I see plastic old kid slides in the exhibits. I’m not sure if it’s just me but I feel that’s taking reusing kids toys for animals too far as in the wild animals would never come across a slide except if you consider penguins sliding of ice into the ocean.
 
Zoo-Lover-1-2-3 said:
“Awesome great”
(This is a one star review but is saying the zoos great.)
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This happens sometime ,it happened to me too. Basically when you don't know how the rating system works, or how to rate a review or product or something properly, this happens. If there are 5 stars on the review and you want to put 4, you have to click on the 4th one, if you want to give 5, you click on 5th. But some people [like me, quite a few times] end up thinking you have to manually click each individual star, and then post the review without carefully seeing it. So you have a 1 star review praising the zoo.
 
Tapirus Lar said:
This happens sometime ,it happened to me too. Basically when you don't know how the rating system works, or how to rate a review or product or something properly, this happens. If there are 5 stars on the review and you want to put 4, you have to click on the 4th one, if you want to give 5, you click on 5th. But some people [like me, quite a few times] end up thinking you have to manually click each individual star, and then post the review without carefully seeing it. So you have a 1 star review praising the zoo.
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Yeah after posting it I realized that someone probably hit the wrong button or something.
 
Rohin said:
In the wild, animals also don't get fed by zookeepers:p. I believe if the animal uses the slide and the slide/enrichment does not harm the animal it is not being taken 'too far'.
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You bring up a good point again! I guess that kids toys can be used for animals and they do work good but still I would rather choose more naturalistic enrichment instead as I feel that it gives you the full immersive experience and really makes people appreciate the natural world further but that’s just my opinion on enrichment.
 
Breckenridge said:
One bright spot.......the puffins and how they seem to fly under the water. It's a small exhibit but that's where we actually spent the longest amount of time.
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Calling the NC Zoo's Seabird exhibit "small" is certainly a take...

Zoo-Lover-1-2-3 said:
“Needs more turtles”
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This one wasn't me, I swear.

This one for the NC Zoo gave me a good laugh.
dippin dots are 9$, waited 2 hours to get into the zoo and waited another 63 minutes waiting to get overpriced dippin dots, had to watch the orangutang "throwing it back" as my 9 year old son described it in their exhibit on the left of the of the dippin dots stand. would not recommend.
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