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

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I got to experience a pet hate yesterday at Como Zoo. Kids howling when the wolves were asleep and their idiot parents laughing at it. I made comments on rude visitors while I was close by but of course they ignored it.
 
elefante said:
I got to experience a pet hate yesterday at Como Zoo. Kids howling when the wolves were asleep and their idiot parents laughing at it. I made comments on rude visitors while I was close by but of course they ignored it.
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Ugghhh... Happens in Barcelona Zoo all the time. Hate it.
 
pachyderm pro said:
Well obviously. My question is, how do you confuse a massive blue stork with a tiny black and white penguin?
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I'm not sure where you've been looking at saddlebill storks, but all the ones I've seen are black and white. Kind of like a penguin...
 
Water Dragon said:
Bugs me when people call enclosures 'cages'
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see, I'm sort of the opposite. I know "cage" has negative connotations and that's why people - especially on Zoochat and those who work in zoos - prefer "enclosure", but I dislike it so much more when someone calls a cage "an enclosure". Calling any enclosure "a habitat" is a million times worse though.

"In human care" is another silly PC phrase to try and somehow not say that animals are captive. It sounds ridiculous. And similarly, saying an animal "passed". It died.
 
Chlidonias said:
Calling any enclosure "a habitat" is a million times worse though.
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Chlidonias said:
And similarly, saying an animal "passed". It died.
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I can live with 'in human care', but I'm firmly with you on those two.

I've always been used to 'enclosure', and it has the advantage of applying equally to a cage, a paddock, an island, a tank, a pit, or anything else intended to contain animals. I often use it as a catch-all for that reason.
 
I think the term "enclosure"and "exhibit" is for things better than a cage,etc.more natural looking, with foliage, and like enrichment.I won't say this is a "enclosure". A cage is a cage i.e. with bars around and small space...something like that.
 
Maguari said:
I can live with 'in human care', but I'm firmly with you on those two.

I've always been used to 'enclosure', and it has the advantage of applying equally to a cage, a paddock, an island, a tank, a pit, or anything else intended to contain animals. I often use it as a catch-all for that reason.
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yeah, I use cage and enclosure somewhat interchangeably. Cage implies mesh or bars, enclosure implies something more open, but they're both the same thing. What I meant by most post (which may not have come across) was I dislike when people simply refuse to say "cage" or think "cage" is a dirty word, and so use "enclosure" (as in, "it's not a cage - it's an enclosure!").

But habitat just sound pretentious.
 
Falanouc said:
While I was at my local aquarium I heard this:
Mother: "Oh look! The fish have sad faces."
Little boy about 5-6 years old: "Why mummy?"
Mother: "Because they miss the sea. That's why all the fishies are crying."
The little boy looked appalled and about ready to smash the glass and rescue the poor heartbroken fish, but his mum was dragging him on to look at the 'giant jellyfish' (octopus).
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I feel that one of the great problems nowadays when it comes to the relationship between zoos and the masses is that the consciousness for animal welfare has risen, but knowledge has not; most people in Europe, North America, Oceania, ETC. have acquired more "empathy" for animals, but they still know next to nothing about them. I mean, after all, who cares about nature when you've got sports and celebrity gossip?!
The problem is that, between this growing "empathy" toward animals and situations they don't understand and the often insidious misinformation promoted by the "animal rights" groups (which, again, are as uncouth as the masses in the subject) results in a pop culture image of zoos and aquaria as an evil animal prisons, despite the HUGE advancements that have taken place in those geographical eras in the last seventy-five years.
I don't want to sound like a callous misanthropist (which, I'm sad to assume, I am), but I feel like this right here is why zoological collections run a risk of being destroyed by a stupid and misguided mob.
 
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