Animals That Simply Don't Interest You

I had no idea about that or that there even were domestic racoons, so that is something new I learned today

 

Neither are considered to be the same species as Domestic Dogs now afaik.

~Thylo

 

Any "children's zoo" animals, any farm animals, reindeer, ostrich, ring tailed lemurs and meerkat.

Common, not endangered and unnecessary "filler".

Reminds me of some of those weird Chinese zoos that put dogs on display

I have no problem with "rare breeds" farm collections, as they serve a different purpose.

 

What are they then? Are they still under Canis lupus?

 

Probably an unpopular opinion. But I don't really care for chimpanzees or gorillas. My fascination for animals stems from seeing things different than us, chimps are just uglier, hairier humans. (urangutans are ok though)

 

I don’t really have much interest in the insects. Some are cool like the Australian Walking Stick, but I don’t spend much time looking at them.

 

Ring-Tailed Lemurs are endangered Additionally, there are plenty of children's zoos that house important and endangered species, or that are used to showcase indigenous wildlife.

Canis dingo is the name many refer to them as now.

~Thylo

 

Ring-tailed lemurs are endangered in the wild, but are abundant in captivity. If captive animals are not being used in reintroduction programmes, there should be a limit in the number of individuals and spaces should be used for other species.

 

There's still debate about the taxonomic status of the dingo. Some consider it a subspecies of the wolf, others a subspecies of the dog (with dog and wolf as two seperate species) and some as only a variant or genetic clade within the larger population of dogs.

I don't think 'many' refer to it as a full species, most sources I can find either list it as a subspecies or a genetic clade. Mitochondrial genome sequences indicates that the dingo falls within the domestic dog clade

 

I’m kinda skeptical that they could form their own species, considering how they’ve only had a few thousand years to diverge from domestic dogs. Unless, of course, it’s been discovered that they did not evolve from domesticated dogs after all.

 

Great apes. They're just too human-like.

 

I dont like bats. The henry doorly zoo and aquarium has over 1000 of them. As often and as many animal species as the omaha zoo has given away, couldn't we get rid of all those bats?

 

Zoo visitors have individual dislikes. I doubt if any zoos would get rid of species just because one person doesn't like them.

 

This is probably really unpopular to say but probably about 80% of birds I really don't have much of an interest in. I enjoy birds of prey, penguins/other sea birds, larger birds like ostriches and emus, and anything unique-looking (toucan, hoatzin, etc.), but other than that, I'll most likely skip a zoo's bird exhibit. There were many years where I didn't go into the Bird House at Lincoln Park Zoo simply because I just didn't care for them. I know a lot of people are bird fans, and that's great that you love them, but I just have really never found them interesting.

 

Mosquitoes

 

Especially with how underrepresented and misjudged bats are.

~Thylo