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

A few months ago, I went to the Lehigh Valley Zoo with my grandmother, brother, cousin, and my cousins friend. Anyways, we went into the reptile house and looked at the green tree monitor. My cousins friend loudly tapped on the glass before I took his hand away and told him it could stress the animal. He listened. Coincidentally, the same grandmother was at my house the other day and started tapping on my epipedobates anthonyi’s tank. Got to say I’m kind of angry.
 
Absolutely insane, glad he was arrested and charged with child cruelty.

When he runs out of the enclosure he even drops the child within reach of the elephant's trunk and then hurriedly goes back to pick it up.

I bet that child will be traumatized by the incident for the rest of their life.
 
The amount of times I've heard people call a sawfish a "swordfish" is actually ridiculous. Every single time I went to the Cairns Aquarium I heard this without fail. I guess it's an easy mistake to make, it does sound very similar.
 
DaLilFishie said:
The amount of times I've heard people call a sawfish a "swordfish" is actually ridiculous. Every single time I went to the Cairns Aquarium I heard this without fail. I guess it's an easy mistake to make, it does sound very similar.
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I've never heard this specific one (though I've also never seen a sawfish), but I have heard numerous ridiculous misconceptions. Some are expected, like calling a Lemur a monkey, calling a leopard a jaguar or cheetah, calling a Visayan warty pig a warthog, calling a turaco a parrot, calling a serval a little cheetah, calling an alpaca a llama, but I've also heard some bizarre ones- calling a hornbill a dinosaur, calling an emu a 'big duck', calling a red panda a fox, calling a red panda a lemur (not sure where they got that one), calling kangaroos dogs, calling a sloth bear a gorilla, and perhaps the worst of all ... calling an african spur-thigh tortoise a 'kitty'.
I also dislike it when as a volunteer visitors ask ridiculous questions. For instance, once a visitor asked me what the best way to cook a Meerkat is.
 
Junklekitteb said:
Absolutely correct, too. If it wasn't for the fact we can't possibly have met, I'd even have said you had accidentally overheard me, I do that all the time
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I'm aware that one was *technically* correct, but it is still a scenario in which what someone thought an animal was isn't what it actually is. It would be like seeing a lion and saying "mammal". Is it technically correct? Yes. But does it accurately portray what the animal is?
 
Neil chace said:
I'm aware that one was *technically* correct, but it is still a scenario in which what someone thought an animal was isn't what it actually is. It would be like seeing a lion and saying "mammal". Is it technically correct? Yes. But does it accurately portray what the animal is?
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Idk I sometimes call birds dinosaurs unironically and affectionally. Especially something like a rhinoceros hornbill that really does look prehistoric.
Noah Butas said:
I hate it when people call apes, monkeys, and when they call bison, buffalo.
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Technically correct as well but probably not intentionally by guests who look at any primate and call them "monke" or "Harambe"
 
DaLilFishie said:
what

I hope they were joking
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I hope they were joking too. One of the many weird questions I've been asked over the last four years I've been volunteering. Some of my fellow volunteers and I get a good laugh afterwards when we receive this kind of question. Another really bad one was when I was holding our Southeast Asian Box Turtle, and someone asked two questions. The first was "where does it live", innocent enough until you realize IT'S RIGHT IN THE NAME. When I said the species came from Asia, though, their next question was "Does it have small eyes?". One of the few questions over the years I've legitimately not known how to answer.
 
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