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#16
12-04-2008
Most people will immediately tune out if they see a sign with negative instructions--they simply don't read it at all. When we have folks tapping on the glass front of my reptile exhibits I love to open the shift door and just stare at the offender, or whake my head and wag my finger. In other areas of the zoo I've been known to follow kids acting like fools. Sometimes I pretend to key my portable radio and give "descriptions" of the offenders. That usually calms them down quickly--they think I'm radioing for the police to come arrest them. As for chasing peacocks, I sometimes ask how theywould like it if someone yanked out their hair. If there is a group of unusually rowdy visitors we call ahead to other areas of the zoo to warn them. At that point keepers enter the public areas and keep an eye out for bad behavior. In severe cases I call our maintenance director who has a hook to replace the hand he lost years ago. All he has to do is just let the hook be visible!!
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#17
12-04-2008
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12-04-2008
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#19
13-04-2008
Signs don't work. You can put a dozen of them in huge bold fonts and there will still be a couple of goons who insist on banging the glass/using flash on nocturnal animals/touching dangerous animals.
Many visitors seem to have extremely low safety awareness; Whenever I see people try to touch an animal they're not suppose to, I'll just scare them by saying that animal could take out a finger or such. It's usually enough to scare them off. And then there are those who understand the message but are simply anti-establishment or plain reckless. Zoos could always put up extra barriers but I feel its not the right solution. Since majority of visitors don't bang the glass/touch the animals, it seems wrong to penalize them by not allowing them to come up close to the animals because of the actions of a few goons. I believe better enforcement is the way to go; have staff constantly monitoring the exhibits and empowered to remove unruly visitors.
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#20
13-04-2008
@NZ Jeremy: The Chengdu Zoo has such a (quite graphic) sign: do not feed animals, do not harass them, don't sleep on the benches, don't pee into the hedges, don't run around without a shirt on...doesn't help.
A German zoo had a smart pun written on its glass tanks: "Nur Bekloppte klopfen", with means "Only schmucks knock". Seemed to have helped at least a little bit...
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#21
14-04-2008
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WELCOME TO OUR OOL As you can see, there's no P in our pool. Please keep it that way.
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#22
14-04-2008
@lukeness: Good one.
 Does it work?
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#23
14-04-2008
this sign is at Zoo Negara in Kuala Lumpur. It has no effect at all.
Zoo Negara sign (KL) - Photo Gallery
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#24
14-04-2008
If the sign is there the idiots have no excuse when they get thrown out on their behinds... Too many zoos don't have strong enough warnings, in my opinion, for fear of looking like big brother, the animals in their charge deserve a little more I think...
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15-04-2008
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BUT it certainly gets attention so I'm sure it helps!
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#26
15-04-2008
I like the small poster on the glass front of the monkey exhibits in zoo Jihlava, it says (if I remember correctly): "Neklepejte na sklo, stejně vám neotevřeme." =Do not knock at the glass, we will not open [the window/door for you] anyway.
Last edited by Jana; 15-04-2008 at 02:59 AM. Reason: spelling
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#27
wasted signs
15-04-2008
this sign is at Zoo Negara in Kuala Lumpur. It has no effect at all.
I agree . The staff appear too lethargic to police it . The keepers at Melaka and Taiping zoos were more aware of what the public were doing , and had to occasionally intervene with a verbal request to stop certain behaviours ( with some success )
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#28
18-04-2008
At the Toronto Zoo. I have told off a woman for trying to feed a sandwich to a GRIZZLY BEAR. She was standing right next to the sign saying "do not feed the animals."
 There were also some idiot kids that the lion keeper had to tell off for throwing snow at the lions. San Francisco Zoo incident in the making, anyone?
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#29
18-04-2008
We almost had a San Francisco incidentn in Copenhagen in the summer of 2006. Some buffoons were standing by the hamadryas baboon exhibit (picture).
One of them leaned over the wall, while the other two held him in the legs. Then he started to take swings at the female baboons with his belt. Naturally, the male baboon wouldent stand for this, and tried to protect his females. He then jumped a little more the 4 meters to the top of the wall, and suddenly stood right next the the idiots on outside of the enclosure. And I promise you that they ran once they saw his teeth .Fortunatly, the male just patroled around the wall of the exhibit for a while, and then jumped back down. Later, the wall was raised to prevent further escapes But this is an example of how the animals enforces good zoo-behavior themselves 
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18-04-2008
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