I saw a tank at World Aquarium labeled as this:
Nemo’s Reef needs a clean!
What's something you heard at a zoo or aquarium from another guest that irritated you?
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Nemo’s Reef needs a clean!
World Aquarium wasn't any good at cleaning their tanks (the aquarium has since closed).
Today I was at the Bronx zoo and some dude genuinely thought dholes were called d-holes
When my family was discussing the possibility of us adopting a dog and we were trying to think of names, I suggested “Dhole”. But you can imagine how my dad read that word…
RedRiverHogman
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Wingham Wildlife Park has Giraffes exhibited with BLESBOK so I was very annoyed when someone said "Look they've put Goats in with the Giraffes"
Minor quibble i know but it irritated me a lot
Minor quibble i know but it irritated me a lot
Bengal Tiger
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Wallabies ain’t rabbits!!! “Oh, but they have big ears!!!” Does that make my good friend a rabbit!? “They have big feet!” If my sister says that I have big foot does that mean I’m a rabbit? Logic people, logic!!!
Bengal Tiger
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I forgot one thing: “Look it’s a monkey!” (Or something like that), read kid, reeeaaad! There is a sign less than 4 feet from you explaining that gibbons are not monkeys. So guess what? They’re not monkeys!!!
Not directly from a zoo visit but a guy I went to school with refused to believe me when I said Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, Australia has never kept any Hyena species (they haven't) he said he saw them but he meant African Hunting Dogs (he was not convinced by my explanation that they weren't Hyenas, was very frustrating lol).
Reminds me of the time a friend of mine asked me to show him and his girlfriend at the time around the Bronx Zoo. Among other claims, at one point she started insisting that the zoo's full-grown adult Leopard was only a juvenile and that they get to over twice that size. She would not hear different.
She would also go on tangents about how the Lions, giraffes, Gelada, and nyala could all easily escape their enclosures when we arrived at them.
~Thylo
Zooplantman
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I have heard that the Bronx neighborhood is in constant danger
Lions and stuff all over the place, eating peopleI have heard that the Bronx neighborhood is in constant danger
Bengal Tiger
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From what I can tell, I'm glad I don't live in a big city. It sounds pretty brutal.
Zooplantman
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Well if people would stop escaping their viewing areas and trying to enter lion enclosures....
StreptopeliaNL
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Recently I visited Pairi Daiza in Belgium and I was in the Oasis hall to see the Bulwer's pheasant. I stood in front of the aviary for a while and I noticed other visitors passing by all the time. The Bulwer's pheasant is a unique bird and very rare so for a bird lover like me a real gem, but most people didn't seem to bother very much.
Some reactions of visitors:
- That's a weird turkey/chicken.
- It's defenitely a turkey!
- It doesn't look natural, it must be a genetically modifed bird. (sure, the displaying including the long wattle of the bird is quite unique, but if you didn't see that in your life before, it doesn't mean it's not natural. Weird conclusion)
- Some kids asking their parents what kind of bird it is, and the parents then totally ignoring their kids (why don't you take the chance to educate your kid about a rare bird? There was a sign with the name on it!)
However I was glad to see that some people took the effort to read the birds' name on the sign.
Some reactions of visitors:
- That's a weird turkey/chicken.
- It's defenitely a turkey!
- It doesn't look natural, it must be a genetically modifed bird. (sure, the displaying including the long wattle of the bird is quite unique, but if you didn't see that in your life before, it doesn't mean it's not natural. Weird conclusion)
- Some kids asking their parents what kind of bird it is, and the parents then totally ignoring their kids (why don't you take the chance to educate your kid about a rare bird? There was a sign with the name on it!)
However I was glad to see that some people took the effort to read the birds' name on the sign.
Ah yes, I ask you to guide me through a place I don't know anything about and claim to know something more than you, a person which informs itself on this stuff everyday and I know is way more knowledgeable than me; yeah that sounds right
Oh yikes
Bengal Tiger
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Monkey is not used for Hominoidea, that was my entire point. In phylogenic nomeclature, ape is only used for Hominoideans, and monkey is not used for them at all. That was my point.
Hominoidea is within Catarrhini so all apes are monkeys but not all monkeys are apes.