Weirdest things you saw in zoos

-I’ve seen a mother White Rhino charge at the safari truck in front of us on Kilimanjaro Safaris at DAK. Luckily, no one was injured and the animal care keepers came out in a truck and moved her and her calf off-show.

-I’ve witnessed a fight in the line for Everest at DAK. Someone allegedly cut in line, and things got ugly. A crew of cast members had to break it up and escort the people off-property.
 
AndyJ08 said:
-I’ve seen a mother White Rhino charge at the safari truck in front of us on Kilimanjaro Safaris at DAK. Luckily, no one was injured and the animal care keepers came out in a truck and moved her and her calf off-show.

-I’ve witnessed a fight in the line for Everest at DAK. Someone allegedly cut in line, and things got ugly. A crew of cast members had to break it up and escort the people off-property.
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Were anyone else in the queue hurt in the fight
 
I Like Zoos said:
Every time I go to a zoo that has jaguars, someone says “look at that leopard Timmy” even though they are standing in front of a massive sign saying Jaguar
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I know right, that's so annoying
Once I was at Blackpool Zoos Tapir and Capybara enclosure by the giraffes and someone said to there son, look it's a rhino, I was just so annoyed because tapirs don't look that similar to rhino's
 
Nasua said:
The weirdest thing I saw in zoos was definitely the New Guinea Short-beaked Echidna & New Guinea Ground Cuscus' exhibit at Plzen Zoo. It was not the enrichment of the exhibit I find weird, it's the exhibit's place in the zoo: you can only find it, if you need to go to the toilet.... I think that says it all.
It really is too weird!:D Fortunately, the exhibit is not situated IN the toilet directly but in the dark-lighted corrdior in front of the toilet. You won't pass it on the way around the zoo, not very subtle, especially because of the rarity of those species.
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More than that, the Grey Four-eyed Opossum was in one of the smaller enclosures in that area at one point as well. Only one I've ever seen!
 
On a recent visit to Dudley zoo ,we were entertained by the female Wolverine coming out of the pool and then doing gambols,sometimes as many as three at a time.She must have been enjoying herself.
 
When I was a child visiting Taru Jurug Zoo, I distinctly remember seeing a macaque chained by its neck, the chain was attached to a pole inside of a male orangutan enclosure. The orang sat silent on top of its climbing structure, while the macaque paced around restlessly. To this day, I don't know why they placed them like this, was it to rouse the orangutan to do something? Did the zookeepers think the orang needed a friend? I don't think I'll ever know.

If the zoo name sounds familiar, this is also one of the zoos that had a female orangutan who learned to smoke spent cigarette butts from visitors, thankfully the orangutan has been rehabilitated and the zoo is now in much better condition.
 
Mossman Joe said:
When I was a child visiting Taru Jurug Zoo, I distinctly remember seeing a macaque chained by its neck, the chain was attached to a pole inside of a male orangutan enclosure. The orang sat silent on top of its climbing structure, while the macaque paced around restlessly. To this day, I don't know why they placed them like this, was it to rouse the orangutan to do something? Did the zookeepers think the orang needed a friend? I don't think I'll ever know.

If the zoo name sounds familiar, this is also one of the zoos that had a female orangutan who learned to smoke spent cigarette butts from visitors, thankfully the orangutan has been rehabilitated and the zoo is now in much better condition.
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Horrible!
 
Weird is one word, but "worst" is the one that comes to mind...the PCA Building at the Cleveland Zoo. Absolutely mind-boggling how an AZA facility gets away with that structure still standing. Weird because no one else crammed in there seemed bothered by it...
 
In Bali Zoo, they for some reason build their bird-of-paradise exhibit (Or perhaps even paludarium, they even had some peacock basses in the moat) inside the men toilet.
 
Mossman Joe said:
When I was a child visiting Taru Jurug Zoo, I distinctly remember seeing a macaque chained by its neck, the chain was attached to a pole inside of a male orangutan enclosure. The orang sat silent on top of its climbing structure, while the macaque paced around restlessly. To this day, I don't know why they placed them like this, was it to rouse the orangutan to do something? Did the zookeepers think the orang needed a friend? I don't think I'll ever know.

If the zoo name sounds familiar, this is also one of the zoos that had a female orangutan who learned to smoke spent cigarette butts from visitors, thankfully the orangutan has been rehabilitated and the zoo is now in much better condition.
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Macaques can be very aggressive, so it was probably to deter the orangutan from coming to the ground, to encourage natural climbing behaviors I think.
Although if they keep a macaque chained like that I do not think they fully understand natural behaviors and welfare of animals.
 
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