Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes

[Elephas Maximus]

In a Soviet book I seen a reference to German zoologist Heinrich Dathe, allegedly he observed porcupine shooting quills in Berlin zoo, with force strong enough for the quills getting stuck in wooden fence.
Also circus trainer that sold porcupines for my friends' petting zoo told that she observed quill shooting too.

 

[jwer]

I’m quite sure that in an episode of one of Steve Backshaw’s expeditions, where he scales the side of a mountain in Borneo, you can hear screaming peeha’s when he’s travelling through the jungle towards the mountain...

 

[Dassie rat]

In a 1994 version of The Jungle Book, John Cleese's character asks a student to identify some monkeys. The student replies, "Those are langur monkeys". In fact they were ring-tailed lemurs.

 

[Cassidy Casuar]

The marsupial (crest-tailed mulgara) was thought to be extinct in New South Wales, but not globally extinct.

The bat (greater horseshoe bat) was seen in Kent for the first time in over a century, but it exists elsewhere in the UK. This article prompted many ignorant comments about COVID-19, by the way.

Picture should show the common brushtail possum. Also, the location name is Mount Pirongia.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

Fish exhibit

 

[RatioTile]

In a Soviet book I seen a reference to German zoologist Heinrich Dathe, allegedly he observed porcupine shooting quills in Berlin zoo, with force strong enough for the quills getting stuck in wooden fence.
Also circus trainer that sold porcupines for my friends' petting zoo told that she observed quill shooting too.

Reminds me of cow tipping. It’s impossible, but people claim to have done it before.

 

[Dassie rat]

I remember a BBC version of Dracula. It may be this one: Count Dracula (1977 film) - Wikipedia. Count Dracula flies into a room and transforms into a fruit bat. I don't remember whether there are bananas or mangoes in the room.

 

[Dassie rat]

Reminds me of cow tipping. It’s impossible, but people claim to have done it before.

It's only fair if you really enjoy a glass of milk, RatioTile

 

[Dassie rat]

I have been listening to The Snow and The Works on the Northern Line on BBC Radio 4 (BBC Radio 4 - The Snow And The Works On The Northern Line by Ruth Thomas, Episode 1). At one stage, the narrator, who works at the Prehistoric Studies Institute mentions Mary Anning discovering an ichthyosaur, saying that she had discovered a dinosaur before dinosaurs had been heard of. I would have thought she would have known that ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

The objective of this activity is to exercise imagination, but whales and turtles are not fish.

 

[RatioTile]

The objective of this activity is to exercise imagination, but whales and turtles are not fish.

As tetrapods they are sarcopterygians, along with lungfish and coelacanths. Thus they are as much fish as we humans are.

 

[evilmonkey239]

The 2016 book “Meerkats” by Grant McIrath refers to the titular species as belonging to the Viverridae family.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

Zoo Dodo in Russia with toucan mascot

 

[Jarne]

Zoo Dodo in Russia with toucan mascot

So because a zoo uses a mascotte that isn't equal to it's name, it's a mistake or inaccuracy

 

[Cassidy Casuar]

This image is from a recent news article about New Zealand's Predator-Free 2050 goal. Is the mustelid a stoat or a marten?

 

[Cassidy Casuar]

An otherwise very knowledgeable and interesting professor who taught a part of one of my university courses strongly believed that the European rabbit population in New Zealand had been successfully controlled using myxomatosis, to the extent that he included a question about the subject in that course's exam.

Another university professor who I was taught by thought that one of the pre-human-existence penguin species that was found in New Zealand might have been driven to extinction by humans. I can't remember exactly which penguin species it was, but it was a species that had a very long bill compared to modern penguins.

 

[Elephas Maximus]

My school geography teacher told that sloths are monkeys, and megalodon in WWD Sea monsters was real.

 

[Dassie rat]

A student said that her philosophy teacher said that bats were birds because they fly

 

[Elephas Maximus]

Dragon-winged chinasaur
Pterosaurs and sea reptiles are common in dino books, as well as arachnids in insect books. But not every book explains their taxonomy (this one does)

White rhino labeled as Sumatran, and jaguar among African animals

 

[Cassidy Casuar]

Three of the options are domestic rabbit breeds.