ZoologicallyDepraved
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While at SeaWorld San Diego I saw a child point to a white sturgeon and exclaim, "It's a dolphin!"
Misidentified Animals
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Sphenisciologist
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Osedax
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Are these Humboldts or Magellanics? I find it hard to tell those two apart occasionally, although I can see these are most definitely not African!
Those are Magellanics. They have an black stripe between their mask and abdominal stripe. Their beak also lacks a fleshy base unlike what Humboldts’ have.
Bactrian Deer
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Eland = Roan Antelope
Dr. Wolverine
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I went to this petting zoo and the keepers there called their Ring-tailed lemurs monkeys. I assume they did that because "monkey" would have been an easier term for visitors to understand. However, I wish the facility would have taken a step toward educating its visitors and at least using the term "lemur", even if that is not the name of the species.
Osedax
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I've heard a vet call a RTL a monkey. The lemur's owner said the same thing.
Considering that you are in Japan I wouldn’t be too shocked to hear people omit the “fox” from “fox monkeys”.
I recently heard Bush Stone-Curlews being called "baby cassowaries"...
Elmwood park zoo
Ocelot= baby Jaguar!
Ross park zoo
Amur leopard= Jaguar
Ocelot= baby Jaguar!
Ross park zoo
Amur leopard= Jaguar
A couple of times recently I have heard people saying that different species in adjacent enclosures are adults and babies.
The first was in Beale Wildlife Park's nocturnal house a few weeks ago. Someone said that the slender loris were the adult bushbabies and the mouse lemurs were the young. Today at Marwell someone said that the binturongs were the adults and their neighbours, the cusimanses were the babies.
The first was in Beale Wildlife Park's nocturnal house a few weeks ago. Someone said that the slender loris were the adult bushbabies and the mouse lemurs were the young. Today at Marwell someone said that the binturongs were the adults and their neighbours, the cusimanses were the babies.
Dr. Wolverine
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It just irritates me when people look at Phasianus Versicolor, and call them Phasianus Colchicus.
Until recently they were considered the same species, so this is less incorrect and more being a case of using outdated taxonomy. Although I do understand there is probably some national pride going on here.
Dr. Wolverine
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Until recently they were considered the same species, so this is less incorrect and more being a case of using outdated taxonomy. Although I do understand there is probably some national pride going on here.
Yes, especially as they are the national bird of Japan. I also personally think that green pheasants look better than common pheasants, but that is simply my opinion.
PaddyRickMFZ
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At Melbourne zoo Everyone was calling the peccaries pigs. Very understandable right? Of course, that’s until a middle aged woman called them a wombat, directly in front of the sign. The child attempted to correct her, but she insisted
cornu aspersum
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I once saw a striped hyena being called a tiger.
