Out-of-place wildlife in media

One that's always bothered me is that a lot of American film / tv producers / writers assume American fauna is found in Europe too. So a lot of shows supposed to be set in Europe has Raccoons or Skunks.

One of my favourite shows, Hilda, is very Scandinavian-themed. With Scandinavian folklore (Trolls, Elves, Giants, Krakens, etc) and a lot of people with either Scandinavian accents or British accents (that's still European). But in multiple background shots there are raccoons to be seen...
 
Mr Gharial said:
One that's always bothered me is that a lot of American film / tv producers / writers assume American fauna is found in Europe too. So a lot of shows supposed to be set in Europe has Raccoons or Skunks.
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There are many raccoons wild in Europe
 
Dassie rat said:
There are many raccoons wild in Europe
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Only as an invasive species in recent times though, so anything set before like the 1920s should not have raccoons in Europe.
Mr Gharial said:
One that's always bothered me is that a lot of American film / tv producers / writers assume American fauna is found in Europe too. So a lot of shows supposed to be set in Europe has Raccoons or Skunks.

One of my favourite shows, Hilda, is very Scandinavian-themed. With Scandinavian folklore (Trolls, Elves, Giants, Krakens, etc) and a lot of people with either Scandinavian accents or British accents (that's still European). But in multiple background shots there are raccoons to be seen...
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Chipmunks are another offender.
 
Haliaeetus said:
There's a Rhino in the Disney movie Tarzan, while it's supposed to take place in the rainforest.
There are maybe Lions and other savanna animals, but I'm not sure of it.
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I know I am responding to an old post but there were also ring-tailed lemurs shown in the scene where Kala sleeps with baby Tarzan. You know… in continental Africa

On another note, I think I already said this in another thread but there’s a scene in Evan Almighty where Steve Carell gets stalked and chased by local and native animals to the Congress. The scene ends with the office getting swarmed by birds. As mentioned before the use of native bird for entertainment is evil and illegal. Which is why the “local” birds in the office were pigeons, canaries (different color morphs), black throated magpie jays, and wedge tailed eagles, yellow headed vultures, pink backed pelicans, pied crows, diamond doves, diamond firetail finches, and silver(?) gulls, along with some others I couldn’t identify.

Edit: while checking the scene for the birds, I saw Canada geese and what looks like ravens. I wonder how those got in.

 
Elephas Maximus said:
Vintage poster with obviously Asian elephant and Pink fairy armadillo
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Posters by Edumart
Tiger and wrong subspecies of red deer in Africa (Barbary stag looks different)
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Eastern bluebird, Song thrush, Common raven and hummingbird
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As a Singaporean, I can confirm that the Hornbill is the wrong species... it should be Oriental Pied Hornbill, not Great Pied Hornbill...
 
1964's Mary Poppins, despite famously taking place in the UK, features the titular character singing with an American Robin as opposed to a European one.

1981's The Fox and The Hound seems to take place within North America's Appalachian mountains, has a Badger character who appears to be a European Badger. Even then, North American Badgers were never found within the Appalachian mountains even in their historic range.
 
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