OkapiFan
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Sounds amazing!
Misidentified Animals
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Jambi
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Okapolis is unironically an amazing name. It sounds like a Sharknado style so-bad-it's-fantastic monster movie about an invasion of killer okapis. I'd watch that.
Edinburgh Zoo received its Weddell seal from Christian Salvesen in 1914. At the same time, and from the same source, the zoo also acquired two elephant seals, four king penguins, a gentoo penguin and a macaroni penguin.
Another one which I suspect might be common. Any large eyed nocturnal mammal that can climb is a bushbaby.
Demonstrated on a recent visit where a couple were wondering why the baby bushbabies were kept apart from the adults. The two enclosures held gray mouse lemurs and slender loris respectively.
Demonstrated on a recent visit where a couple were wondering why the baby bushbabies were kept apart from the adults. The two enclosures held gray mouse lemurs and slender loris respectively.
Dr. Wolverine
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So. Many. Times. I once even heard a kid saying the sign was WRONG and that they were really Hyenas.
Dr. Wolverine
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I've also heard River otters being called Beavers.
Dr Bright N04
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Someone thought a bamboo shark was a lizard
cerperal
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The quite clearly signed spiny-tailed monitors being referred to as baby komodo dragons by a parent to their child. This was the same parent bashing the glass of the komodo's exhibit, so perhaps intelligence isn't to be expected.
Oh, and crocodiles being called dinosaurs. Natural history really should be part of the education system
Oh, and crocodiles being called dinosaurs. Natural history really should be part of the education system
Dr. Wolverine
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How does that happen? Just because they are not your average Requiem or Mackarel doesn't mean they are a lizard!
Dr Bright N04
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It just got worse. I work as an educator for my local aquarium, and at least two pepole at first mistook them for aligators.
Dr. Wolverine
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Have they even ever seen an alligator?
Two weeks ago I went to the Indianapolis Zoo. When I was looking at the aviary in the Plains two kids thought the guineafowl were chickens, and the crowned cranes were the guineafowl grown up; basically a larger chicken. Their dad was correcting them, but they still continued to call them chickens.
I went to Binder Park Zoo today, and I heard a few misidentifications.
1. Southern ground hornbill - vulture
2. Tawny frogmouth - owl
3. Southern cassowary - emu
4. Cheetah - tiger
I went to Binder Park Zoo today, and I heard a few misidentifications.
1. Southern ground hornbill - vulture
2. Tawny frogmouth - owl
3. Southern cassowary - emu
4. Cheetah - tiger
Sicarius
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This is actually quite understandable.
I agree I used to think the same thing, but they aren't closely related at all. I think I was more disappointed they didn't read the sign, less than them calling it an owl.
cloudedleopard611
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My favorite misidentification as of late is the guy who very confidently called the Transcaspian urials "Egyptian ibexes". It was just an oddly specific wrong guess. First, there really isn't any such thing as an Egyptian ibex, though it could be a synonym of the Nubian ibex. Either way, it is a pretty obscure animal so I am just not sure where he was getting it from. Assuming he was referring to the Nubian ibex, its not a bad guess, but its just like how do you know that species and not urials?
Dr. Wolverine
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I would expect even a child to get that one right. Those are the classic ABC animals!
You might want to lower your expectations because it was someone’s mom who made this mistake!