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Why You Never Use Electric Signage 101

Why You Never Use Electric Signage 101
ThylacineAlive, 12 Apr 2019
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    • ThylacineAlive
      Scaly Slimy Spectacular: Electronic signage error. March 13, 2019. Around 90% of the signs in the reptile house were like this, which I found insanely frustrating. I told an employee who told me they were working on it and all issues would be resolved in roughly 15-20 minutes. While a couple of signs were fixed within an hour or so, they weren't all operational again for about 3-4 hours after I was told this. In the meantime I was told to use to zoo's website to identify the species on-display.
    • Chlidonias
      Could you actually use their website to identify all the herptiles in their collection? (As in, I haven't looked at it so just wondering how complete or otherwise it is).
    • ThylacineAlive
      @Chlidonias It's more complete than most zoos and was very helpful to an extent. They have a map of the building and you can click on each enclosure to see its occupants. I'd say it's roughly 80-85% accurate for how the house was during my visit. Some enclosure had swapped species or were empty entirely (from my understanding, some have been empty for well over a year despite what the website claims), and there were a handful not listed. The biggest issue was that some of the pages didn't work when accessing from a phone. Pretty good and helpful tbh but proper signs would eliminate the problem in the first place

      ~Thylo
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    • Chlidonias
      "The biggest issue was that some of the pages didn't work when accessing from a phone"

      My biggest problem would have been not having one of those. I understand that some people do have a portable pocket-sized internet device, but if one of the staff there had said "just look the animals up on the website" I would have said "do I look like I'm carrying a computer with me?" then they would have said "um, what?"

      I would have to have then added "I'm from New Zealand" and then they would have patted me on the head and said "your English is very good".
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