That makes sense I don’t have much experience with online chatrooms.
ZooChat "Slang"
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Onychorhynchus coronatus
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A term I’ve been known to use for a certain type of zookeeper is ‘goat botherer’
Lol, what is a "goat botherer" ?
It sounds both disgusting and illegal.
Seen (and used) GPO to refer to Giant Pacific Octopus a couple times.
And of course AL - amur leopard
felis silvestris
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HWP= Highland Wildlife Park
SDWAP = SDZSP = San Diego Zoo Safari Park
NCZ = North Carolina Zoo
LRWC = Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy (likely mostly or entirely used by me)
RWPZ = Roger Williams Park Zoo
FPZ = Franklin Park Zoo
WWZ= Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park
SCZ = Sedgwick County Zoo
WBS = World Bird Sanctuary
CPZ = Central Park Zoo
PPZ = Prospect Park Zoo
NAIB = National Aquarium in Baltimore
SNZ = Smithsonian National Zoo
SCBI = Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
LD = Living Desert Zoo
Rothticulated giraffe = hybrid giraffes, specifically the US population
NWR = Northern White Rhinoceros (I guess the southern form would be SWR, but idt I've ever seen that one used?)
GOHR = Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros
GHO = Great Horned Owl
ZG = zoogiraffe
SL = snowleopard
Of course,
ZC = ZooChat
ZooChatter = patron of ZooChat
~Thylo
NCZ = North Carolina Zoo
LRWC = Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy (likely mostly or entirely used by me)
RWPZ = Roger Williams Park Zoo
FPZ = Franklin Park Zoo
WWZ= Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park
SCZ = Sedgwick County Zoo
WBS = World Bird Sanctuary
CPZ = Central Park Zoo
PPZ = Prospect Park Zoo
NAIB = National Aquarium in Baltimore
SNZ = Smithsonian National Zoo
SCBI = Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
LD = Living Desert Zoo
Rothticulated giraffe = hybrid giraffes, specifically the US population
NWR = Northern White Rhinoceros (I guess the southern form would be SWR, but idt I've ever seen that one used?)
GOHR = Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros
GHO = Great Horned Owl
ZG = zoogiraffe
SL = snowleopard
Of course,
ZC = ZooChat
ZooChatter = patron of ZooChat
~Thylo
I always thought retic is used for the reticulated python, not the giraffe.
This is one I don't like. CPZ could imply the Central Park Zoo, or the Capron Park Zoo, or the Cameron Park Zoo, or any number of other zoos with these initials. I think we need to be very cautious when using abbreviations that they can't be misunderstood for something else. For instance, it may be okay to use CPZ in a thread about Central Park Zoo, but I wouldn't recommend using it in a general zoo discussion thread.
Another thing I've only heard on zoochat is calling a tiger, giraffe, leopard, etc. "Generic". Not an acronym, but something that could fit "zoochat slang"
I've heard it used for both but the python is typically what I thing of first when I heard this.
As for 'CPZ', I've never been to any zoo with those initials other than Central Park and have seldom had online discussion about them so I suppose that isn't an issue I've encountered. You make a point, though. That said, I feel many acronyms could be applied to more than one zoo. Does PPZ stand for Prospect Park, Popcorn Park, or Potter Park, for instance. And LD could be a zoo or @LaughingDove
~Thylo
Well I guess now you know why @Coelacanth18 seems so confused when you say that at your zoo they feed rabbits to the retics.
Just a certain type of keeper who is interested mainly in the domestic goats, and much less interested in the actual true species in the same collection. Trust me, I’ve worked with those people
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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I see, probably these are people who just want to cuddle domestic animals.
They would perhaps be better suited to work in a petting zoo or on farms if only the livestock were not to be slaughtered.
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I quite like the term some European zoochat folk use for this- 'Zoomix'- sums it up quite well.
I've heard the term "zoo-type" too.
