Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes

This infographic about the drill from New England Primate conservancy uses the scientific name of the bald uakari:

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In the movie Zarafa, koala with babies (fed by bamboo-like plant) and giant panda are shown living in Jardin des Plantes zoo. Both species were not imported yet in time the story takes place. Also there are hippo with tail like a cow's, and polar bear awakened from hibernation (even not in winter)
 
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Cassidy Casuar said:
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.
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I'd forgotten about the most irritating professor-error of them all. Another professor at my university was an expert on the creation of invasive mammal lures for the purpose of native wildlife protection, but he apparently wasn't very interested in birds found outside of New Zealand. During a lab lesson on vertebrate biology, he insisted on referring to the Harpy Eagle as, "Harpy's Eagle".
 
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