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

I have had quite enough experience with young children in zoos for my personal liking that with every passing zoo visit the following concept gains more traction in my mind:
On some days, zoos should have 'relaxed' days of sorts - where tickets for young babies and children of sufficient young age are not available - simply to give animals an opportunity to relax from whatever tenure they are exerted on by such visitors.
 
Brayden Delashmutt said:
I feel like it’s worth adding how irritating it can be to see people constantly focusing on big name species. If I got a dollar every time I’ve heard someone complain about there not being any lions or elephants at small zoos, I would be very rich.
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I often tell visitors that one thing I love about our zoo is that we don't have animals we cannot give a really good life. Example: Elephants need a lot of roaming room and to live in multigenerational herds. As our grounds are not big enough to offer that, we don't have elephants.
 
One thing that always bother me is when a parent and child are at the zoo, and the parent goes to an enclosure and spends some time reading the information sign, and then gets asked by the child "What animal is that?" and they turn around from the sign, and call it by THE WRONG NAME.

Real-Life witnessed example:

Parent: *reading sign for mandrills*
Child: What animal is that?
Parent: This the baboon monkey!
 
I think many posts on this thread can all be summed into the dislike of the average zoo visitor's lack of knowledge or of bad parenthood.

When it comes to my case, my blood boils when I see people littering at the zoo, despite it having been one of the most prevalent issues caused by zoo visitors in my country (Brazil). Why has it? Because many animals have died due to the consumption of objects deliberately thrown into their exhibits, including a hippopotamus named Nancy, whose death was caused by a plastic ball thrown into her enclosure. As a consequence, many Brazilian zoos have a lot of signs on their grounds warning about the dangers of littering.
 
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fs_squid8711 said:
I dont know who also gets irritated at this, but when people call the cheetahs at my local zoo leopards.
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When people call the Lions/Tigers the opposite names : /

Enzo said:
I think many posts on this thread can all be summed into the dislike of the average zoo visitor's lack of knowledge or of bad parenthood.

When it comes to my case, my blood boils when I see people littering at the zoo, despite it having been one of the most prevalent issues caused by zoo visitors in my country (Brazil). Why has it? Because many animals have died due to the consumption of objects deliberately thrown into their exhibits, including a hippopotamus named Nancy, whose death was caused by a plastic ball thrown into her enclosure. As a consequence, many Brazilian zoos have a lot of signs on their grounds warning about the dangers of littering.
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At my local zoo they have a big sign in front of the Sea Lions with some of the items they have found in the stomach of the male Sea Lion. A few plastic bags, a tennis ball, and about 5 dollars in small change. People are ferals.
 
Enzo said:
When it comes to my case, my blood boils when I see people littering at the zoo, despite it having been one of the most prevalent issues caused by zoo visitors in my country (Brazil). Why has it? Because many animals have died due to the consumption of objects deliberately thrown into their exhibits, including a hippopotamus named Nancy, whose death was caused by a plastic ball thrown into her enclosure.
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Hippopotamus - Death by Rubber Ball

Australasia’s has lost at least nine Common hippopotamus due to rubber balls being thrown into their exhibits (or in many cases, directly into their mouths).

In addition to these deaths, there’s several reports of teenage boys/young men being caught by staff attempting to throw the balls into the hippo’s mouth. One keeper described it as a craze - and she wasn’t wrong.

1.0 Edward (Adelaide Zoo) Died 1928
1.0 Bill (Perth Zoo) Died 1930
1.0 William (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1933
1.0 Chaka (Auckland Zoo) Died 1937
0.1 Rosamund (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1945
1.0 Dimazulu (Auckland Zoo) Died 1946
0.1 Esmeralda (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1961
1.0 Rangi (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1968
0.1 Kiboko (Auckland Zoo) Died 1970
 
Zoofan15 said:
Hippopotamus - Death by Rubber Ball

Australasia’s has lost at least nine Common hippopotamus due to rubber balls being thrown into their exhibits (or in many cases, directly into their mouths).

In addition to these deaths, there’s several reports of teenage boys/young men being caught by staff attempting to throw the balls into the hippo’s mouth. One keeper described it as a craze - and she wasn’t wrong.

1.0 Edward (Adelaide Zoo) Died 1928
1.0 Bill (Perth Zoo) Died 1930
1.0 William (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1933
1.0 Chaka (Auckland Zoo) Died 1937
0.1 Rosamund (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1945
1.0 Dimazulu (Auckland Zoo) Died 1946
0.1 Esmeralda (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1961
1.0 Rangi (Melbourne Zoo) Died 1968
0.1 Kiboko (Auckland Zoo) Died 1970
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You see, this is the kind of thing I wish people would get jailed for.

Some people are absolutely disgusting.
 
That Aussie Guy said:
One thing that always bother me is when a parent and child are at the zoo, and the parent goes to an enclosure and spends some time reading the information sign, and then gets asked by the child "What animal is that?" and they turn around from the sign, and call it by THE WRONG NAME.

Real-Life witnessed example:

Parent: *reading sign for mandrills*
Child: What animal is that?
Parent: This the baboon monkey!
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I'm at Goathland station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway about twenty years ago as Sir Nigel Gresley pulls in when I see and hear this conversation between an excited little boy and his frankly awful mother:

Child: Look mummy, it's a steam engine!
Parent: Don't be silly. There aren't any steam engines any more. It's just a diesel made up to look like a steam engine. [She says this while standing right next to the cab in which the fireman is visibly shovelling coal onto the fire.]
Child: But mummy...
Parent: Shut up, you stupid boy.

True story.
 
I work at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Utah and there's a few things we get pretty often

1. "Are the turtles dead?"
This one isn't so much irritation as it is a question out of worry. We have two rescue sea turtles(Loggerhead and Green) both have buoyancy issues and wouldn't function in the wild. The Green Sea Turtle has a rock she likes to just rest against....upside down. So people are always wondering if she's dead.

2. "Where are the seals, dolphins, and big sharks?!"
We just don't have the space for these. Or the big sharks people want. We have plenty of cool species, I love watching our Blacktips and the Wobbegong is a favorite of mine. I also love our Epaulettes of which we just noticed a Mermaid's Pouch Sunday.

3. I WANT TO SEE THE LEOPARDS
Calm down child, they're resting in their cave during the day. They're just more active at night. Calm down

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That endless drivel with those disgusting activists every month at the gates of the Dolfinarium. I would love to just kick their fat asses and say: now get lost with your stupid signs and banners. What a lifeless, laveless bunch they are. And not only at the Dolfinarium but also at other zoos. Because oh, how pathetic the animals are. Well, they are not pathetic at all because they are kept active all day with food and toys. There should be a ban on animal activists. Good thing there is also security who do show them the way in a heavy-handed manner. See you never again! Haha.

And oh yes, the other day a young boy threw a heavy stone into the porpoise basin. Are you completely out of your mind!

/Rant over.
 
I didn't see this AT the zoo, but it's about zoos and it frustrates me. So Instagram has been awful as of late because in between everyone I follow there are like 3 posts from the same generic clickbait science news accounts that always appear, making scrolling ten times more obnoxious (also PETA, Born Free, and similar organizations, which I had to block so that I would stop seeing the occasional un-TW'd animal gore pic while scrolling through Fraggle Rock fanart - indeed, I've had to block a lot of people on Instagram who believe a conspiracy theory that The Jim Henson Company makes puppets by skinning ostriches alive and crafting their skin into leather with feathers attached - can't make this up if I tried, they even picketed on their studio grounds once - who called me a murderer for loving puppets and spam the comments on EVERYTHING about this, probably still but I might be blissfully unaware as I successfully blocked all the "Peta Puppeteers" as they became known when they started attacking small creators.)

One post from the generic annoying accounts popped into my feed, about how the United States will not have giant pandas anymore.

I made the utter mistake of reading the comments, to see people react to learning about the stupid panda diplomacy stuff for the first time.

Nope.

Literally every single comment, with thousands if not in some cases tens of thousands of likes, claims that it's a mistake to send the pandas back... because we need to send ALL zoo animals in the US to China. Yes, really. Apparently, US zoos are only tiny barbaric cages, while China has big humane safari parks that ACTUALLY do conservation and ACTUALLY save pandas, and because of that zoos should be illegal in the United States and we should send everything to China.

Thousands of people want this.

Thousands of people think shipping millions of animals to another country all at once for being "more humane", when in reality I wouldn't be shocked if China had an equal ratio of good-to-awful-zoos as us, is not only a good idea, but the only correct one, and want the legal system to make this law.

Literally thousands of people.

They took the advice of Patrick Star as the solution to animal cruelty. Pro tip: don't.
 
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AlmightyKingPrawn said:
I didn't see this AT the zoo, but it's about zoos and it frustrates me. So Instagram has been awful as of late because in between everyone I follow there are like 3 posts from the same generic clickbait science news accounts that always appear, making scrolling ten times more obnoxious (also PETA, Born Free, and similar organizations, which I had to block so that I would stop seeing the occasional un-TW'd animal gore pic while scrolling through Fraggle Rock fanart - indeed, I've had to block a lot of people on Instagram who believe a conspiracy theory that The Jim Henson Company makes puppets by skinning ostriches alive and crafting their skin into leather with feathers attached - can't make this up if I tried, they even picketed on their studio grounds once - who called me a murderer for loving puppets and spam the comments on EVERYTHING about this, probably still but I might be blissfully unaware as I successfully blocked all the "Peta Puppeteers" as they became known when they started attacking small creators.)

One post from the generic annoying accounts popped into my feed, about how the United States will not have giant pandas anymore.

I made the utter mistake of reading the comments, to see people react to learning about the stupid panda diplomacy stuff for the first time.

Nope.

Literally every single comment, with thousands if not in some cases tens of thousands of likes, claims that it's a mistake to send the pandas back... because we need to send ALL zoo animals in the US to China. Yes, really. Apparently, US zoos are only tiny barbaric cages, while China has big humane safari parks that ACTUALLY do conservation and ACTUALLY save pandas, and because of that zoos should be illegal in the United States and we should send everything to China.

Thousands of people want this.

Thousands of people think shipping millions of animals to another country all at once for being "more humane", when in reality I wouldn't be shocked if China had an equal ratio of good-to-awful-zoos as us, is not only a good idea, but the only correct one, and want the legal system to make this law.

Literally thousands of people.

They took the advice of Patrick Star as the solution to animal cruelty. Pro tip: don't.
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There aren't thousands of people. The vast majority are bots, which are used to push broader political ideas about how superior China is.
 
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