Out-of-place wildlife in media

It is probably based on a chimpanzee food hoot, which TV films use out of context, because it is a distinctive sound:


I saw zoo visitors doing it in front of gorillas, among others. I guess one can even trace down a particular canned recording in a TV show.

https://www.quora.com/Do-monkeys-really-say-ooh-ooh-ah-ah

 

Quite frankly, apes are actually monkeys in that Old World monkeys (baboons, macaques, vervets, mandrill, etc.) are genetically closer to apes than New World monkeys (capuchins, spider monkeys, marmosets, and kin).

The Yellow River Sanctuary near Atlanta had spider monkeys and they made more like squeak chirp noises.

 

That's another theory where the stereotypical "ooh ooh aah aah" came from to double with the kookaburra one.

 

Now sorta back to the more relevant category of the thread about misplaced wildlife.

One trailer to Disney Nature's "Chimpanzee", had a kookaburra call in the African jungle, where chimps naturally occur.

Yet another case of misplaced kookaburras for ambience!

 

As the title of the thread is 'out of place wildlife in media' that includes the soundtrack as well as the visuals, as any film-maker will tell you, so it is just as relevant as the visual mistakes. Maybe less discussed, but just as relevant.

 

Sounds count, too. An experienced animal nerd may bat an eye when they watch something in say, the Peruvian Amazon and there are kookaburras or chimpanzees calling in the background.

 

Spheniscus sp. in Antarctica

'Northland Panorama' with penguins in Hagenbeck zoo


A Bulgarian poster for Soviet movie "Law of Antarctica" with walrus
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143009/


A box of Soviet penguin toy with Spheniscus sp. in Antarctica

 

And worst, California sea lions!

 

There's a Rhino in the Disney movie Tarzan, while it's supposed to take place in the rainforest.
There are maybe Lions and other savanna animals, but I'm not sure of it.

Conversely there are Okapis in The Lion King II - Simba's Pride (it's supposed to happen in the savanna).

About George of the Jungle : I ask myself if the abundance of non-African wildlife (Tiger, Orang-utan, Asian Macaque, Capuchin, Cockatoo, Macaw... and Dromedary, that lives in Africa but obviously not in the jungle) wasn't intentional, as a kind of parody.

 

The Jungle Book 2 had hippos appear in W-I-L-D, but I forgive their presence more vs the ocelots because India used to have prehistoric hippos, but those are extinct now.

 

Vintage poster with obviously Asian elephant and Pink fairy armadillo

Posters by Edumart
Tiger and wrong subspecies of red deer in Africa (Barbary stag looks different)

Eastern bluebird, Song thrush, Common raven and hummingbird

 

In an United Nations clip about preservation of Amazonia (ca. 2020), it was possible to see Bee-eaters and Fruit Bats.
None of these species live in Amazonia nor elsewhere in the Americas.

 

Sheesh these people I tell you

 

That bonobo.

 

Least convincing chimp I've ever seen.

 

I mean... you sort of could technically say that bonobos are a species of chimpanzee, the same way the western and eastern gorillas are both gorillas and the Bornean, Sumatran, and Tanpanuli orangutan are all orangutans. But then again, since people commonly use "gorilla" and "orangutan" to refer to all species of Gorilla and Pongo respectively, but usually "chimpanzee" to only refer to Pan troglodytes and not Pan paniscus, my point may be moot.

 

I mean bonobos are called pygmy chimpanzees, so...

 

True, though I think that common name was used more in the past.

 

King Louie of the Jungle Book (1967) is an orangutan in an Indian jungle. In addition the Bandar-log (monkeys) in the movies all have prehensile tails like monkeys in the new world do instead of the macaques and langurs that are found where the story takes place.

Speaking of monkeys, Abu in Aladdin (1992) shares the prehensile-tail debacle, and in the 2019 version is made into a capuchin in a story set in the Middle East. Igo the parrot is portrayed as a macaw instead of any Asian parrot species.

In Finding Nemo (2003) Nigel the Pelican is a brown pelican, a species native to the Americas, instead of the Australian pelican found where the story takes place.

Tangled (2011) features a chameleon in Medieval Northern Europe, where there are no chameleons at all; they only occur further south on the continent.

Legend of the Guardians, the Owls of Ga’hoole (2010) is supposed to be set in/around Australia based on the accents of some of the animals and features species, however it features owl species from around the world.

 

Let's not forget the American alligator among Australian animals in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014).

Maybe the filmmakers couldn't find any accurate crocodiles or they were too dangerous to be used on stage.