Young Lemurs Sing Like Children, and It's a Beautiful Clue to Our Musical Roots - Animals Around The Globe is about indris but shows photos of ring-tailed lemurs
Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes
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In 12 Most Loyal Animal Companions in the Wild - Animals Around The Globe, a 'white mute swan in flight' is represented by a cat in a blanket and beavers by a coypu.
Omaha didn't make that poster. You have BBC to blame here.
The programme features Eurasian Otters on the Isle of Mull - which live in the sea.
In 13 Underwater Predators That Rule U.S. Oceans, the Atlantic wolffish is represented by a leopard seal
In 13 U.S. Zoos That Helped Bring Species Back From Extinction. the Californian condor is represented by an emerald tree boa, the giant panda by orang-utans. the black-footed ferret by a macaw, the red panda by red ruffed lemurs, the Texas horned lizard by a snake, the Mississippi sandhill crane by black rats and the hellbender by crocodilians
In The Difference Between Mule Deer and White-Tailed Deer, the mule deer is represented by a red deer in some photos
In 13 Animals That Thrive Near Volcanoes - Animals Around The Globe, the marine iguana is represented by a basilisk
13 Most Colorful Animals Living in the U.S., the monarch butterfly is represented by 3 species, none of which is a monarch.
In 15 Species That Should not Be Able to Survive But Do - Animals Around The Globe the naked mole rat is represented by another mole rat, the Pompeii worm by a millipede, the olm by a spotted salamander, the kangaroo rat by a wallaby, the ice worm by caterpillars and the planarian by an earthworm. It implies that the axolotl is the only amphibian to stay in its larval state,
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Not to mention a sea nettle as a box jelly, and a tiger shark as a Greenland shark
In These Animals Can Survive Months Without Drinking Water, pocket mice are represented by a guinea pig.
In The Role of Big Cats in Indigenous Mythology, the jaguar is represented by a clouded leopard
In Inside the Underground World of Big Cat Ownership in America, the cheetah is represented by a leopard.
This small article about ecological surveys in Russia mentions some real animals but also lists the "Siberian Ash Snail"; a name which apparently refers to the Grey-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes), and the "Bean Eagle".
Five rare species of birds and a new species of beetle
Five rare species of birds and a new species of beetle
In Looking Ahead: The Future of Global Wildlife Conservation Efforts - Animals Around The Globe, black rhinoceroses are represented by white rhinos, an Asian elephant by a woman with a cat and the Californian condor by another raptor
In 12 Animal Hoaxes That Fooled the Entire World - Animals Around The Globe, the Surgeon's 'Loch Ness monster' photo is represented by a model dragon head, the Cardiff Giant by a giant tortoise and the jackalope by a Labrador
10 Times Nature Created Perfect Symmetry makes the common mistake of mentioning the peacock's colourful 'tail' feathers.