You might belong or be on zoochat if...

*sees that the news threads for both Zoo A and Zoo B that I keep up with have been bumped*
*click on Zoo A*
“An animal has been transferred from Zoo A to Zoo B.”
oh cool, back to the list then, let’s see what’s going on with Zoo B
“Zoo B has received an animal from Zoo A”
not sure what I expected but this gets me every single time
 
biggest_dreamer said:
*sees that the news threads for both Zoo A and Zoo B that I keep up with have been bumped*
*click on Zoo A*
“An animal has been transferred from Zoo A to Zoo B.”
oh cool, back to the list then, let’s see what’s going on with Zoo B
“Zoo B has received an animal from Zoo A”
not sure what I expected but this gets me every single time
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Happens to me all the time.
 
If you run into another zoo guest with a large camera trying to document species or exhibits, strike up a conversation, and ask them if they're on ZooChat or Facebook zoo groups.

Then if they say they aren't and have never heard of this site, you start to think of them as Free Folk who haven't bent the knee to us!
 
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If you like a certain image in the gallery, then later, save it under “Watched Media” as a source of inspiration for later use. It’s almost like the ZooChat equivalent of Pinterest when you think about it. ;)

Bonus points for liking said image with a 5-star rating simultaneously.
 
When you get enthustiatic when you receive a new edition of De Harpij (Dutch zoo sector trade magazine).
 
RatioTile said:
When the only words you know in German are "hinter den Kulissen," "quellen," "nachwisse," "haltungen," "gesehen," "ausgeschildert," "verstorben," "geschlossen," and "vormals" just because you're tired of having to use Google Translate on a particular site.
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Surely by that point you’d have figured out what the components of the name Zootierliste mean?
 
You might belong on ZooChat if…

Seeing a 45 second clip from a movie about talking lions sent you on a rant because while you can accept talking lions; you can’t accept other inconsistencies (including but not limited to implausible birth intervals between litters; and the implication a newborn lion cub emerged from the den with its eyes open the day it was born).

Double points if your pre-teen son was consequently the only kid in his class who said he didn’t wanna see the movie because of said inconsistencies.
 
jwer said:
...you see a remark like this and can't stop yourself from openly starting a discussion about what "true whales" actually are?
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Ishmael, Clint Laidlaw, and Doug Eldon unironically agree that dolphins are included among the whales (though the first two also assert that whales are fish and the third is almost certainly a creationist, so take that as you wish). On the other hand, Suzanne Tate refers to “true whales” as a synonym of baleen whales, while the Kratt brothers stated in an episode on the Narwhal that it is a porpoise and not a whale (it also implied that Narwhals not being real was a common belief and included a classic probability fallacy; it wasn’t one of the better episodes).

Scottish Wildcat said:
-Your favourite childhood animal was something 'weird' (like a warthog)
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For me it was vultures (thanks primarily to “animal alphabet” media).

pachyderm pro said:
if you describe a pangolin to a friend and they reply, "Penguins don't have scales!"
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“Not that this pertains to pangolins, but surely you’ve noticed penguins’ feet?”

KevinB said:
If it really irritates you that when researching Charles Darwin quotations on Google the algorithm recommends several links to creationist/intelligent design/anti-evolution books.
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I recall searching the names of mammal orders and seeing “EvolutionNews” articles along the lines of “The Abrupt Origin of (insert taxon here)” appearing quite high up on several occasions.

Which brings me to…
You may belong on ZooChat if you take issue with marsupials in general being considered “primitive”, “stupid”, or “maladapted”. This sentiment, based on the old orthogenetic or “ladder-based” conception of evolution, is present in such places as Victorian magazine cartoons and a TierZoo video (in which their intelligence is said to be capped by their lack of a corpus callosum, something also absent in birds and cephalopods, not that its author addresses those cases), and is linked to the further misconceptions that marsupials have no placenta at all and that eutherians evolved directly from marsupials (something implied by some modern biology textbooks). The sad thing is that whenever this notion of marsupials being “less evolved” is shown to be inaccurate, a victory is apparently claimed for creationism: not only does evolutionary theory as we understand it not consider any currently existing species to be more or less “evolved” than another, but the same creationists contradictorily point to the current existence of “living fossils” alongside “more evolved” species as an equally good case against deep time and common descent.
 
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