Out-of-place wildlife in media

Barney's Barrier Reef uses Banggai Cardinalfish to represent cardinalfish. Banggai Cardinalfish are are native to Indonesia and are not found on the Great Barrier Reef.

Endless Ocean 2 is full of this kind of stuff. Too much to list here, but it includes Californian Sea Lions, West Indian Manatee and Little Blue Penguins in a South Pacific coral reef, Japanese Jack Mackerel, Whitetip Reef Sharks, Olive Flounder and Kidako Moray in the Mediterranean and Japanese Spider Crab, Beluga Sturgeon, Atlantic Tarpon and Nomura's Jellyfish in the Red Sea.

At least it's better than the original Endless Ocean game, which had every animal in the game in the same South Pacific reef. Including Polar Bears. And Emperor Penguins. And Belugas. Yikes.
 
I remember a dream where Dora from Dora the Explorer was mentioning African animals, and among them were tigers and I was sorta disturbed.

I really love tigers nowadays though.
 
Alex Roman said:
I remember a dream where Dora from Dora the Explorer was mentioning African animals, and among them were tigers and I was sorta disturbed.

I really love tigers nowadays though.
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Reminds me, the film adaptation Dora and the Lost City of Gold shows pygmy elephants in a South American rainforest. I was very surprised at this error because I’d assume even most non-animal people realize that elephants don’t live in South America, or at least don’t think of them as neotropical wildlife.

For what it’s worth, Boots, though clearly not meant to be any specific species of real primate, also has features generally more reminiscent of an Old World monkey.
 
The Disney film I’ll be Home for Christmas has a white-backed vulture in the desert of California, because it would apparently be illegal to use a native bird such as a Turkey vulture, as I recently learned.
 
Even as a kid, the ones that drove me nuts were when an Asian Elephant was clearly meant to be portraying an African Elephant. The most jarring example is in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, which takes place in Africa, yet the one elephant that appears is clearly an Asian Elephant. I heard many years ago, when Hollywood was still using real elephants (I don't even know if they do anymore) that Asian Elephants were easier to train than African Elephants, which is why you mostly saw the Asian species in movies, even when it made no sense.
 
PAKMan said:
Even as a kid, the ones that drove me nuts were when an Asian Elephant was clearly meant to be portraying an African Elephant. The most jarring example is in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, which takes place in Africa, yet the one elephant that appears is clearly an Asian Elephant. I heard many years ago, when Hollywood was still using real elephants (I don't even know if they do anymore) that Asian Elephants were easier to train than African Elephants, which is why you mostly saw the Asian species in movies, even when it made no sense.
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There are certainly still real elephants appearing movies.
 
Eastern bluebird, Song thrush, Common raven and hummingbird
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The hornbill species is wrong too as the only species that is native(and still occuring here) in Singapore is the Oriental Pied Hornbill

Afaik there was a Great Hornbill spotted at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve but it was most likely an escapee or a visitor from Malaysia
 
evilmonkey239 said:
Reminds me, the film adaptation Dora and the Lost City of Gold shows pygmy elephants in a South American rainforest. I was very surprised at this error because I’d assume even most non-animal people realize that elephants don’t live in South America, or at least don’t think of them as neotropical wildlife.
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"Surely in an elephant----"

He winced as if in pain.

"Don't! Don't talk of elephants in South America. Even in these days of Board schools----"

From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" - evidence that, even over a century ago, there were people exasperated that folks thought that elephants lived in South America.
 
Aardwolf said:
"Surely in an elephant----"

He winced as if in pain.

"Don't! Don't talk of elephants in South America. Even in these days of Board schools----"

From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" - evidence that, even over a century ago, there were people exasperated that folks thought that elephants lived in South America.
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Had the extinct gomphotheres of South America been discovered at that point? Given that the Lost World has living dinosaurs, living elephants would actually be a lot less of a stretch...
 
Zoovolunteer said:
Had the extinct gomphotheres of South America been discovered at that point? Given that the Lost World has living dinosaurs, living elephants would actually be a lot less of a stretch...
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Not only had they already been discovered, but at the time "The Lost World" was published in 1912, over a century had passed since the first remains now assigned to Cuvieronus were discovered in Ecuador by Alexander von Humboldt in 1806!
 
Sorry for digging up an older thread, but my wife and I just watched the last episode of BBC’s Celebrity Race across the world.

At around 40 mins in, they are following Kelly Brook and her husband through the heart of Patagonia, Argentina. At that point they are showing off the local scenic views and wildlife, when a shot of a couple of courting grebes passes. Now I’m pretty sure the shown grebes are great crested grebes and a quick google search says that the nearest wild great crested grebes should be about half a planet away.

So just checking, is there an introduced population in Patagonia, or did a lazy editor just google “grebes courting” and tossed the first shot in…
 
jwer said:
Sorry for digging up an older thread, but my wife and I just watched the last episode of BBC’s Celebrity Race across the world.

At around 40 mins in, they are following Kelly Brook and her husband through the heart of Patagonia, Argentina. At that point they are showing off the local scenic views and wildlife, when a shot of a couple of courting grebes passes. Now I’m pretty sure the shown grebes are great crested grebes and a quick google search says that the nearest wild great crested grebes should be about half a planet away.

So just checking, is there an introduced population in Patagonia, or did a lazy editor just google “grebes courting” and tossed the first shot in…
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Are you sure they weren't Great Grebes?
 
birdsandbats said:
Are you sure they weren't Great Grebes?
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After googling how great grebes look, I’m now pretty sure they weren’t?

Perhaps anyone with access to the BBC iplayer can confirm? It’s season 2, the final episode. The shot is somewhere around 41 mins 40ish seconds? They just start following Kelly Brook…
 
Cheers love :cool: Caught em :D

Just checking since Argentina also holds quite a few European settlers I thought it isn’t impossible they brought some European birds with them?
 
Tetzoo Quizzer said:
On the same episode there was also a shot of Eurasian Black (Monk) Vulture rather than American Black Vulture!
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Now that you mention it, I saw that too! It was a juvenile bird, somewhere early on in the episode and at the time I thought it couldn’t be and figured it “might” have been a juvenile condor.
 
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