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lol adrian1963 :D

I must confess (again) :p that when I see a wallaby or a kangaroo I always have to say 'whats that skippy! They are trapped down a mineshaft' lol drives my partner mad :D :eek:

Can't help it zoos bring out the big kid in me :D
 
Just as I often can't resist a King Julian accent at the ring-tail lemurs. ;)
 
I once heard someone call a roe deer running a 'large hare':eek:

While standing right next to a big sign saying roe deer...
 
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My partner got very annoyed at me at Berlin Zoo because we'd missed the penguins. I insisted that we'd seen them. Eventually I took him back to them again. Here they are -

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He said in a very patronising voice - No, those are DUCKS, penguins are the ones that stand up!
I've never let him live that down.
 
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Going back a bit but in terms of tongue-biting moments, I was in the Zoofari monorail at Chester once, just pulling out of the Monkey Islands station.

I was on my own but there was an older lady with (what I took to be) her grandson alongside that had been put in the same car. As we pulled out of the station, the following conversation took place:

GRAN: Now, let's see how many animals we can spot. Let me know if you see any.
CHILD: There! There! A pelican!
GRAN: No, that's a bird, we're looking for animals.


Followed by the sound of my teeth grinding... :D
 
Lol, I had to correct a relative on something like that once. It's amazing just how many people still use medieval taxonomy. :rolleyes:
 
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