I've only seen a single individual of Baird's (the male who was formerly at Berlin) but they are in between Lowland and Malayan I would say size-wise.
What animal looks different in real life to what you expected?
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Wait, really?? I assumed an Atlantic Puffin would be of comparable size to an African Penguin!
Van Beal
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Wasn't at a zoo, but saw both Gouldian Finch and Grey Java Finch, as well as various species of lovebird.
Gouldian finches are quite a bit smaller than I imagined they'd be. Thought closer in size to the likes of an oriole.
Grey Java Finches are larger than I expected, as are lovebirds. The former I expected to be around chickadee size, while the latter I expected budgie size, but was surprised to see that they were rather comparable to other mid-sized parrot species.
Gouldian finches are quite a bit smaller than I imagined they'd be. Thought closer in size to the likes of an oriole.
Grey Java Finches are larger than I expected, as are lovebirds. The former I expected to be around chickadee size, while the latter I expected budgie size, but was surprised to see that they were rather comparable to other mid-sized parrot species.
Gibbonsagainstgravity
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Bear cuscus were much bigger than I had expected. I was really surprised when I saw them for the first time in Tierpark Berlin.
Cranes. For some reason I had the image in my mind of them being heron-sized when they're really about as tall as a human.
Nile Hippo Expert
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The obvious answer here would be humans lol!
Why would it be? We all know plenty of other humans in person, so I don't see the point?
What I used to think blowfish are like:
What blowfish are actually when I got to close up
The first photo is of an actual puffer/blowfish (Tetraodontidae); the second is of a porcupinefish (Diodontidae). Although they're closely related and both families can inflate themselves, they still have some key differences, notably in dentition.
Evirapo
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Weird. I thought Blowfish is another name for porcupinefish
It is used for porcupinefish as often as it is true puffers.
To be fair, the fish in these two pics are not even in the same family! The first is Tetraodontidae, the pufferfishes, and the second is Diodontidae, the porcupinefishes. Both families are commonly called "blowfish" or "pufferfish". The easiest way to differentiate them is the presence or absence of large spines - Tetraodontidae lack them, but Diodontidae possess them.What I used to think blowfish are like:
What blowfish are actually when I got to close up