Zoo promotional material for animals no longer at the zoo

Omaha Zoo's parking lot is sectioned off by animals, some of which they haven't held in a while or don't hold (avocet, quoll, nutria, kangaroo, jaguar.)

Blank Park's main entrance sign has a honey badger, a baboon, and an Indian rhino, none of which the zoo holds.
 
MonkeyBat said:
Omaha Zoo's parking lot is sectioned off by animals, some of which they haven't held in a while or don't hold (avocet, quoll, nutria, kangaroo, jaguar.)
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Sounds to me based on those choices that Omaha might be going for a sort of alphabet theming? Otherwise I'm not sure why they'd pick something like a quoll or a nutria.
 
Neil chace said:
Sounds to me based on those choices that Omaha might be going for a sort of alphabet theming? Otherwise I'm not sure why they'd pick something like a quoll or a nutria.
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They are doing an alphabet theme, but all of the species they've picked they either keep or kept within the last 3 decades or so.
 
It occurred to me this past weekend that the animal Riverbanks Zoo uses for their main entry and exit signs is a spider monkey. I couldn't tell you the last time they had one in their collection, if ever.
 
For a brief time after elephants left the Brookfield Zoo, they were still included in the mural in the zoo's entrance tunnel alongside art of tigers, gorillas and other animals. I assume someone complained about this as they were later painted over - while the background colors blend seamlessly, there is noticeably a huge space between the other animals where the elephant used to be. If they ever bring elephants back, I hope they restore the painting.
 
Near the Bonobo exhibit at the Columbus Zoo there used to be (and maybe still is, but the exhibit has been closed for over a year) a drawing of pandas from back when they exhibited them for a short time. The Bamboo around the area is also from the panda era.
 
Currently wearing my Greenville Zoo shirt as I am typing this. The shirt features a tiger, a giraffe, and a zebra. Only one of those animals is actually present at the zoo (the giraffe), and I don't think they have ever held the other two to my knowledge.

I also have a Sea Life magnet with a penguin, despite neither of the Sea Life facilities I have visited (Charlotte-Concord and Orlando) having any penguins.

The Riverbanks Zoo has what is clearly a spider monkey as part of their logo despite no species of spider monkey being currently present at their collection.
 
dillotest0 said:
I recall recently when I went to Marwell signage material in reference to animals of which no longer existed there quite a bit- notably, coatis to be found on the entrance and gift shop, warthog at the exit, anteater and bat-eared fox on the Tambola [is that thing still in use even ?] and also on various tokens throughout the Zoo, and also direction signage still there for Amur Leopard, which I found rather jarring.
I recall also at Berlin Tierpark promotional material for African Elephant - though this one is more understandable with elephant return in 2024.
I was wondering if you had personal experience with this sort of thing ?
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The sign above the exit at my zoo has an Asian elephant on it which was phased out mid 2010's and has a military parrot on it which the zoo has (I've never seen in the aviary) but the picture in the aviary uses the name red lored amazon while the picture is of a military parrot and there's still some old signage for a hotline to report problems at the zoo has a white-nosed coati on it which I never remember seeing but I was very young when they had it like around 2011 I want to say and it's former exhibit hasn't been used to house anything permanent having been home to an anteater and Komodo and is currently not being used.
 
A couple I have noticed.

Another one for Marwell relating to the former macaque island. The adjacent picnic area still has signs calling it "Island View" which gives the bizarre impression that it is named after an empty space.

At Beale Wildlife Park as you walk towards the entrance from the car park there are several information boards with different "did you know" facts about different species. One of them is about great grey owls, which is a species the park doesn't hold and according to zootierliste has never held. Every other board relates to a species currently at the park.
 
Singapore Zoo's reptile house Reptopia has a panther chameleon as its logo but their panther chameleons are now off-display
 
dillotest0 said:
One peculiar example;
In many news releases regarding the Miami Seaquarium in video form b-roll of manatees and Tokitae [the orca that lived there] are still often used. Neither species remain.
Though given most recent events in all likelihood there won't be a Seaquarium for much longer...
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Perhaps a more agregious example ...
apparently the official brochure for the Seaquarium still features Toki.
[the purple was added by someone else]
 

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I actually have some of this to note.

ZNE Franklin Park Zoo still uses red-eyed tree frogs for some iconography, despite not having them in the Tropical Forest anymore. To be fair, these are an iconic species that are often used to symbolize conservation, so it's a bit more excusable. What's less so is all of the signage for no-longer-there animals along the fence surrounding the playground.

Roger Williams also used polar bears as mascots for a while after losing them.
 
NNM. said:
I actually have some of this to note.

ZNE Franklin Park Zoo still uses red-eyed tree frogs for some iconography, despite not having them in the Tropical Forest anymore. To be fair, these are an iconic species that are often used to symbolize conservation, so it's a bit more excusable. What's less so is all of the signage for no-longer-there animals along the fence surrounding the playground.

Roger Williams also used polar bears as mascots for a while after losing them.
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See, I happen to like the old signs outside the playground. They're interesting from a nostalgia perspective (both species I remember seeing as a kid and ones I do not), and a cool use of signage that otherwise would just be thrown away.
 
Neil chace said:
See, I happen to like the old signs outside the playground. They're interesting from a nostalgia perspective (both species I remember seeing as a kid and ones I do not), and a cool use of signage that otherwise would just be thrown away.
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any pictures of these signs?
 
Neil chace said:
See, I happen to like the old signs outside the playground. They're interesting from a nostalgia perspective (both species I remember seeing as a kid and ones I do not), and a cool use of signage that otherwise would just be thrown away.
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My worry is that they could be misleading to people who have never visited before, in that a first-timer will search up and down looking for the tigers, mandrills, and tree kangaroo that are no longer present if they didn’t look at the map.

I will say, as someone who has been there more times than I can count, I do take a bit of nostalgia from the old signs.
 
dillotest0 said:
any pictures of these signs?
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You can see a few of them in these photos by @TinoPup
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