Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes

[Chlidonias]

But just think about it: not only are these African animals not native to the Marshall Islands and Switzerland, they are obscure animals I doubt most locals would even know about.
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I would not expect more than a tiny handful of Marshallese to know what a Black-footed Cat is.

Those are irrelevant points because the two species aren't national animals of those countries - it is just nonsense posted on the internet. It's like complaining "oh, but think about it - ligers don't have huge talons!" It's meaningless because it isn't coming from something that is real in the first place.

Angola and Eswatini, however, do have species of turacos as national symbols.

This almost certainly the origin of the Switzerland / touraco thing on the internet - the National Bird of Swaziland (i.e. Eswatini) is the Purple-crested Touraco.

 

[Birdsage]

“Porcupine” is an echidna

 

[DaLilFishie]

“Porcupine” is an echidna

"X-ray Fish" is an Indian Glassfish - the real X-ray Fish (probably better called X-ray Tetra), is in a completely different order

 

[Bengal Tiger]

I found this today:

 

[Bengal Tiger]

Having to post a second time because I wasn't able to add a second attachment. I clicked on that little info bar in the above post and it showed me this:

 

[Corangurilla]

@Bengal Tiger I think that's just Google's algorithm being a dumb.

 

[Great Argus]

Having to post a second time because I wasn't able to add a second attachment. I clicked on that little info bar in the above post and it showed me this:
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The "fish" label also shows up if you search for Giant Anteater and Tamandua - not the Silky Anteater though. Something probably got screwed up somewhere.

Edit - played around a bit more, and all mammals I've tried except the Silky Anteater come up as "fish." Interesting.

 

[MRJ]

The "fish" label also shows up if you search for Giant Anteater and Tamandua - not the Silky Anteater though. Something probably got screwed up somewhere.

Edit - played around a bit more, and all mammals I've tried except the Silky Anteater come up as "fish." Interesting.

Of course mammals and all other tetrapods are descended from fish so perhaps Google is taking a rather broad view of classification.

 

[Great Argus]

Of course mammals and all other tetrapods are descended from fish so perhaps Google is taking a rather broad view of classification.

I indeed had that thought, but on checking a few birds, reptiles, and amphibians, they all were marked as one would expect. So who knows.

 

[Bengal Tiger]

@Bengal Tiger I think that's just Google's algorithm being a dumb.

I'm inclined to agree with that

Edit - played around a bit more, and all mammals I've tried except the Silky Anteater come up as "fish." Interesting.

I haven't seen that one before. I wonder what's up with the system.

 

[Birdsage]

From Animalwised.com

• “Protists” appear twice; one is ancestral to all animals and branches off into Porifera, Eumetazoa, and a descendant clade also labeled “protists”. This may be a (somewhat inaccurate) way to illustrate that protists (or more accurate, protozoans) are paraphyletic.
• Annelids and echinoderms are not labeled
• Arthropods is misspelled as “anthropods”
• Amphibia appears to be at the base of Chordata/Vertebrata instead of being nested in Gnathostomata, making Tetrapoda non-monophyletic.
• “Bony fish” are a single sister group to Tetrapoda.
• “Reptiles” are a single sister group to birds.

 

[felis silvestris]

This complete clickbait channel on snapchat used this for one of their thumbnails:

 

[Dassie rat]

When Matt Hancock was in 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of here', he was said to be 'bitten' by a scorpion. One of the other people said he shouldn't worry as the scorpion was small.

 

[zooatlas]

“Porcupine” is an echidna

Also, the "yak" is a muskox

 

[dillotest0]

Whilst we are talking about childrens' videos, here is one from 2007 -

'Alligator' is a caiman, 'Quail' are guineafowls, 'Unicorn' is a bongo, 'Yak' is a takin, and waterfalls and train crossings aren't animals.
Rather high-calibre for 2007 YT, must be said though ...

 

[felis silvestris]

This complete clickbait channel on snapchat used this for one of their thumbnails:View attachment 592125

To add to this as well, the person in the thumbnail is probably in a zoo, not at their home.

 

[dillotest0]

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[Corangurilla]

View attachment 593882 ......

They look so unimpressed.

 

[15399]

Whilst we are talking about childrens' videos, here is one from 2007 -

'Alligator' is a caiman, 'Quail' are guineafowls, 'Unicorn' is a bongo, 'Yak' is a takin, and waterfalls and train crossings aren't animals.
Rather high-calibre for 2007 YT, must be said though ...

- Calling caiman alligators really isn't a big deal, as caimans are part of the family Alligatoridae.
- Had you watched with sound, you would've heard them say after the bongo, "unicorn? I don't think so". Seems more like a joke that fell flat than an inaccuracy (would've been a ridiculous error to make)
- The two non-animals ones are ridiculous though. Good luck finding an animal beginning with "x" at the zoo to use, but I'm sure something could've been found for "W", whether it be wolves, wild dogs, wildebeest, warthogs, or something else entirely.

 

[Dassie rat]

- Good luck finding an animal beginning with "x" at the zoo to use.

Quite a few zoos have x-ray fish. I've seen a card with X for Xerus, a genus of ground squirrels