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

I hate it when I'm viewing lemurs at the zoo and somebody (usually a kid) starts singing that "I like to move it, move it." song from the Madagascar Movie. I've literally hated that song from the first time I've heard it and have grown to culture an even greater hatred for it over time. 12 years on from the movie, I'd optimistically say this behaivour is dying a very slow death but it still happens from time to time. The people I really feel sorry for are the keepers who run the lemur encounters.
 
Zoofan15 said:
I hate it when I'm viewing lemurs at the zoo and somebody (usually a kid) starts singing that "I like to move it, move it." song from the Madagascar Movie. I've literally hated that song from the first time I've heard it and have grown to culture an even greater hatred for it over time. 12 years on from the movie, I'd optimistically say this behaivour is dying a very slow death but it still happens from time to time. The people I really feel sorry for are the keepers who run the lemur encounters.
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:D

That’s definitely one behaviour that I haven’t ever come across! I think I would actually find that quite amusing!
 
Zoofan15 said:
I hate it when I'm viewing lemurs at the zoo and somebody (usually a kid) starts singing that "I like to move it, move it." song from the Madagascar Movie. I've literally hated that song from the first time I've heard it and have grown to culture an even greater hatred for it over time. 12 years on from the movie, I'd optimistically say this behaivour is dying a very slow death but it still happens from time to time. The people I really feel sorry for are the keepers who run the lemur encounters.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's evil knows no bounds...
 
I hear all sorts of comments that must relate to films/characters that I do not know and each time, the person making them looks stupidly proud about being the 'first' to spew it out. I might start wearing headphones at zoos.

Not film related, but I just had a flashback to one of the very few Brits I came across at the German zoos I visited last summer, declaring "it's a squirrel and it's a monkey!" like it was as alien as garlic bread.
 
Water Dragon said:
Something that irritates me is when you try to explain the order Carnivora to someone and they say something like "sharks are carnivores too!" I then try to explain the difference between Carnivora and litteral carnivores but no matter how many times I try to explain it to them they just don't get it!!! :mad:
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My babysitter had similar troubles with me when I was little.
 
Mom: Let's see what's in the is building.
Kid: I just want to see the other animals
Mom: Let's see what's here first.
Kids (running fast and quickly glancing into all the exhibits): Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Oh, look! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!
Me: :mad:
 
Zoo Atlanta: A few years ago, a group of kids were around the kangaroos just yelling "jump, jump jump, jump, jump" for about 5 minutes. Of course, their parents/teachers, weren't doing a thing to get them to stop.

A much smaller thing that annoys me, though it really shouldn't, is when visitors automatically assume an animal is male. I can't count how many times I've heard "There he is" or "Look how big he is" about the elephants even though they're both female.
 
Overheard at Wingham yesterday, looking at the young Asian black bears which are jet black and don't even have their white chest markings; middle-aged man to middle-aged woman "Are those brown bears?"
 
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