Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo? #2

Whenever a visitor of WdG looks into an enclosure and asks "Those aren't real, are they?"

No, I just like to display (highly sophisticated) animatronics and fake animals to get to your money. <Sigh> Well, at least the Crotalus ornatus did me a little favor once and snapped at an particularily incredulous visitor behind the glass.
 
Batto said:
Whenever a visitor of WdG looks into an enclosure and asks "Those aren't real, are they?"

No, I just like to display (highly sophisticated) animatronics and fake animals to get to your money. <Sigh> Well, at least the Crotalus ornatus did me a little favor once and snapped at an particularily incredulous visitor behind the glass.
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If they only had animatronics on display, you wouldn't have so many vegan legionnaires waging war on zoos...
 
Then the anti-robotics lobby and environmentalists would protest...
So far, I've been in the lucky position that poisonous and venomous critters do not rank highly in the favour of anti-zoo activists. Furthermore, many of my specimens come from reptile refuges, federal impoundments or have been donated to the exhibition, making it somehow easier for people critical of zoos to accept their presence here. Several visitors have actually told me that they usually do not like zoos, but are fine with WdG.
 
Batto said:
So far, I've been in the lucky position that poisonous and venomous critters do not rank highly in the favour of anti-zoo activists. Furthermore, many of my specimens come from reptile refuges, federal impoundments or have been donated to the exhibition, making it somehow easier for people critical of zoos to accept their presence here. Several visitors have actually told me that they usually do not like zoos, but are fine with WdG.
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That's because anti-zoos are normies wearing an alternative mask. They're probably the type of people who kill a snake or a scorpion on sight thinking it'll poison them by looking. If it's not conventionally attractive, they don't give two hoots. Maybe someone should do a zoo with only "ugly" animals, like aardvarks, marabou storks, naked mole rats, aye-ayes, rhinoceros iguanas, anglerfish, tarantulas, etc. And see if any of those cry-babies whine about them.
 
I mainly dislike when people are right next to the signage for an exhibit, but they call the animal something else. I went to the SF Zoo once, and when I was at the wolverine exhibit, some near me said, "Look at that skunk." They were right next to the signage, and I couldn't believe how they acted. I also dislike tapping on glass, yelling at the animals, and teasing the species.
 
Emanuel Theodorus said:
And I'm pretty sure I would be able to save Coral Reefs everytime I heard someone says "It's Nemo!!" to a Clown Fish.
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I do shifts watching the orangutans at the LA Zoo. They’re all King Louie from “Jungle Book” to the visitors. Although I do point out that Bruno, our biggest male, was literally the model the animators used to create Maurice for some of the later “Planet of the Apes” movies.
 
As annoying as it is to constantly hear Nemo and Dory being shouted, I've noticed that both adults and children seem to have actually learned a few things from the movies, unlike just about every other animal movie out there. They generally know a few of the species, and know what anemones are and that they're toxic to most fish, etc. I've seen people actually be interested in anemone exhibits, beyond the typical "pretty colors" and moving on.
 
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