Species you hate to see in zoos

Speaking as another (proud) SJW, I think "unbelievably arrogant" is a tad unfair. Learning how to conduct oneself online isn't intuitive for everyone (I'm still learning) and it also takes time for existing communities to accept new additions. This isn't helped by SealPup's bewildering tendency to combine a good point with some... er... not so good ones.

@SealPup: For me, at least, the process could be lubricated if you made an effort to link your posts to existing discussions and, before posting, asked yourself whether the point you're making is actually clear. I might not always agree with you, but I'd rather know we disagree and why. That includes the distinction between culture and ethnicity.

Just one Panda's opinion.


EDIT: Oh, and to follow my own advice about linking posts to existing discussions, any species kept poorly or non-mammal displayed unimaginatively.

 

FunkyGibbon: the only purpose of language is communication: as long as any chosen usage conveys the statement, it's appropriate.

 

Am I to assume then that you have no problem with using racial slurs?

 

How long is this off topic discussion going to continue?

 

I imagine we're almost finished.

After I will give an on-topic, I promise!

 

Anamitronic Dino's zoos are obsessed with them for some reason any domestic animals anything that you can have as a pet all hybrids and color variants except white tigers they are beautiful animals and pretty much most birds except ostrich peafowl and flamingoes

 

Funny how a lot of Zoochatters don't like peafowl. I really enjoy them. As I enjoy most birds.

 

Yeah I do too the ones i said were the ones I like plus the peafowl at my zoo don't have an exhibit so they just roam around the zoo

 

I enjoy birds a lot more now, and have made special trips to stop by aviaries at my local zoos, but as a kid, I could care less for them, and aviaries were easy skips.

 

The only thing I skip is the farm section.

 

Is that a thing? I've only seen animatronic dinosaurs once when I was a kid. They had one you could control and I got in trouble for moving the controls too fast. Whoops.

 

I don't like it when it is just a big plastic dinosaur that just stands there and does nothing! Some will have an occasional roaring noise but that's about it!

 

Animationic dinosaurs are rarely high quality paleoart. Since the Crystal Palace era attempts to keep life-size models current have gone downhill: attempts are to bring in visitors who like Jurassic Park, they make threatening noises all the time, predators look threatening, and the noises they do make are stereotypical.

Not only the anatomy but the behaviours and postures ought to recall the live animals in the zoo: blissful relaxation, play, nurture, foraging, mating, visual display.

 

You don't like lions huh?

 

I've rarely seen lions do anything. Tigers a few times, but lions I could probably count on one hand the times I've seen them move. I still enjoy them though.

 

I always imagine if peafowl were only held in a few collections; they'd be prized beyond measure by zoonerds. They truly are extraordinarily beautiful birds.

In terms of species I don't like seeing, I've given this a lot of thought. Despite their overexposure, I still enjoy see most ABCs. However, the one exhibit that really leaves me cold is the cookie cutter South American 'pampas' one. A mixed species effort of some combination of tapir, capybara, mara, rhea and if you're lucky giant anteaters. I've seen it so many times and it's deathly dull. These species can still be interesting, but not like that.

If you really backed me into a corner, I might say ratites. I never linger at these exhibits, but I still don't hate them. Also, I do really like seeing cassowaries, and I do hope to see kiwi one day (I only just found out the kiwis are ratites by the way).

Basically, this question is impossible, especially because of the use of the word 'hate'.