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

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BeardsleyZooFan said:
Looking at this video again, I saw that somebody commented "I work at this zoo", and yet didn't complain about what the girl did, and instead complimented the video!:eek: Makes me wonder how she got her job at this zoo...
On another note, I'd like to see if the girl would be so confident if she was in the crane enclosure. I heard from a worker there that the cranes are one of the most dangerous animals in the zoo, and keepers have to keep watch out for them, or they'll get a beak in the eye.
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I'm guessing your YouTube username is oeninja, then? ;)
 
Moebelle said:
They aren't all/or not at all/or at least I think not Bengal tigers. Although I think it is a pretty funny joke:)
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Those are the four different color phases of bengal tigers in captivity Moebelle. The names of the non standard color from left to right is golden tabby, royal white, and golden white.
 
JBZvolunteer said:
Those are the four different color phases of bengal tigers in captivity Moebelle. The names of the non standard color from left to right is golden tabby, royal white, and golden white.
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Okay then, I'll be the one who says it!
As far as I'm concerned NONE of them are Bengal tigers, they may have some Indian blood in them but it's been diluted so much that all you can say is that they are tigers!

It is quite a good shot and a decent caption though...
 
Calling gorillas "monkeys" - that must drive the keepers mad. Also calling all the female gorillas "he".
 
I hate when people behave badly in zoos, and generally say something to them. Believe it or not, they usually stop right away--but I am very nice about it! I also have been known to correct someone telling their child that a tiger is a lion and so forth. Someone's gotta do it!
 
jusko88 said:
Giraffe dies, ate plast... JPost - Features - Insights & Features
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Very sad and exactly why I am against any public feeding to any animals being allowed at zoos and parks anywhere. I am not against private feeding of animals with keeper supervision, I have had some very memorable animal experiences myself this way either by being invited ‘backstage’ or paying for the privilege under supervision of a keeper. However being able to buy food to feed to animals I believe is wrong. I can only really talk about UK collections in my experiences, but many of these do not do all they can to prevent feeding by the public.

Some places sell food to hand feed to animals, then say don’t feed this species, only feed this species – as if everyone listens.
Other places people feed animals with food from their pockets/bags, innocently enjoying the fun. However all it takes is an animal like a giraffe or camel, something big that can snatch and swallow a plastic bag or sandwich packet, then it can be a case of watch the animal die a painful slow death or have no choice but to put it to sleep. Zoos and Safari Parks on the whole still do not get this message across clearly enough.

The Good - Chester Zoo ‘Our animals are fed a balanced diet and anyone caught feeding them will be escorted out of the zoo’ – or words very similar to that. And you can’t miss the signs.

The Bad - West Midland Safari Park. The option to buy pellets at extraordinarily inflated prices and then during the drive around have signs stating what animal you can or can’t feed it too. Hence they get fed more than just pellets, biscuits, sandwiches, fruit...

The Ugly – South Lakes Wildlife Park. You can buy food and then literally chuck it an anything that walks, flies, climbs or hops.
 
I did see one of the elephants at Chester eat a plastic bag that someone carelessly dropped and it blew into the enclosure. I emailed to warn them in case it got ill.
 
I hate people who throw something like stone or trash at the animals, give the animals some human foods, bang at the glass and shout at the animals. But particularly the thing i hate the most is the zoo guards that stay as nothing as happened when people do those kinds of annoying things to the animals.
 
Soeryatien said:
I hate people who throw something like stone or trash at the animals, give the animals some human foods, bang at the glass and shout at the animals. But particularly the thing i hate the most is the zoo guards that stay as nothing as happened when people do those kinds of annoying things to the animals.
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Hi Soerytien,

What is the purpose (what are they for) of the Zoo Guard at your zoos?
 
From what I heard from guests apparently to them male orangutans are the ugliest animals on Earth, orangutans give birth to lar gibbons, a yellow lar gibbon is the male, macaque is pronounced macaw, okapis are duikers, an okapi that shakes to get bugs off of them means they are sick and have the chills, lemurs are monkeys, since a bongo has a broken horn it has to be a male, every female gorilla is a male, and a gorilla who eats a stick is mentally confused. That is what I heard in 5 hours at the zoo.
 
Anything that could harm or upset an animal bothers me, more so if it's deliberate, but people making mistakes about the name/gender of an animal isn't awful at all. Not everyone knows what I know, and I wasn't born knowing it. As animals are my area of interest I found out, but I know very little about some species at all and no doubt would make silly errors. So what?? It's not the end of the world is it?
 
mazfc said:
Anything that could harm or upset an animal bothers me, more so if it's deliberate, but people making mistakes about the name/gender of an animal isn't awful at all. Not everyone knows what I know, and I wasn't born knowing it. As animals are my area of interest I found out, but I know very little about some species at all and no doubt would make silly errors. So what?? It's not the end of the world is it?
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I think it is a case of teenagers pointing fun at others and acting the know it alls (most of us where like that once in our teens). I thought about replying with something along the lines of 'Wear ear muffs if it bothers you that much' , but then decided meh, not worth it!
 
The thing that bothers me when people get information wrong about an animal is that the information is usually right under their noses. I'm not talking about knowing the latin name of a kind of fish or even knowing one kind of monkey from another - but knowing the difference between a monkey and an ape or knowing what a lion looks like is pretty darned basic. It's just a matter of respect for the animal to be at least slightly informed of what it is or isn't. Zoo's have a significant educational role and if someone leaves (having seen a lion)and still not knowing what a lion looks like then something has gone badly wrong.

The fact is I do hear and see things which astonish me. I'm no zooloogist. I didn't grow up in an animal centric family. I went to zoos myself no more than 4 or 5 times as a kid but there were still pretty basic things I knew that folks just don't seem to pick up these days.

Maybe it is respect for the animals that is missing. Respect in the way you behave towards them and respect in having the decency to get to know who you are staring at through the bars of a cage.
 
The thing that irritates me a bit and it's more of an internet thing than actually at the zoo (I HOPE) - male animals live in BACHELOR groups, batchelors is tinned SOUP or a town in Australia (amazing what you find when you google).

So unless the enclosure is sponsored by a soup brand (money making opportunity there!) they are bachelors.
 
I agree with mazfc and Pootle. I understand that many of us zoogoers have pet peeves and things that may get to us, but complaining over every little thing that someone does wrong? Come on, people! I'm pretty sure I've heard every complaint a zoogoer could possibly have at least twice on threads like these. It's fine if you're posting about things similar to what wenxue is, but just to say "someone called an okapi a zebra/horse hybrid" again? Enough, we get it! Some people are a little ignorant; they could care less about animals. We're the zoo nerds, not them. So we're going to bash anyone who doesn't know what a kudu is? :D

And BeardsleyZooFan, I understand that that may be irritating to you and the lynx, but it's just a baby! :o
 
AnaheimZoo said:
And BeardsleyZooFan, I understand that that may be irritating to you and the lynx, but it's just a baby! :o
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Oh I'm not the heartless monster I seem to be. It's a baby, and you can't control the little tyke. However, Sasquatch the lynx didn't understand.:p
When kids make mistakes identifying an animal, it doesn't bother me too much. When an adult, just a teensy twinge. But when the sign is right in front of the person, then it gets irritating. I mentioned this earlier in the thread but when there was a sign that was clearly right in front of a man that explained that the Andean Bear was sent somewhere else, he told his daughters "Come on look harder, he has to be in here somewhere!"
 
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