Misplaced Wildlife: Difference between revisions

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* The [[So Bad It's Good]] ''Black Condor'' comic book series has the title character's parents being killed while they were in Mongolia and himself being raised by condors... which live nowhere near Mongolia.

* During Kurt Busiek's run on ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', a Snowbird [[Expy]] called Silverclaw shows up; she can only turn into animals native to South America. The cheetah was retconned into a jaguar next issue (though she changed into that for ''speed''), but they never tried to explain the cockatoo.

* Both used and averted in ''[[~~Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|~~Incredible Hulk]]'' #250 when [[Silver Surfer]] visited the North Pole and encountered large groups of penguins. To avert a storm of No-Prizes, the [[Note From Ed|editor]] wrote in the bottom of the panel that he knew penguins lived on the opposite side of the world but the artist drew them so cute that he left them in.

* Both used and averted in ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' #250 when [[Silver Surfer]] visited the North Pole and encountered large groups of penguins. To avert a storm of No-Prizes, the [[Note From Ed|editor]] wrote in the bottom of the panel that he knew penguins lived on the opposite side of the world but the artist drew them so cute that he left them in.

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* ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''

** In [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's version]] (set in India), Monkey People look mostly correct, with the glaring exception of Louie the ''orangutan'' (native to Indonesia).

** Strangely, Louie was kept in both the [[Live Action Adaptation]] and "The Kipling group of Fables" in the comic book ''[[~~Fables (Comic Book)|~~Fables]]'', despite being a Disney addition and neither part of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s work nor a genuine "Fable". In the live-action ''Jungle Book'' it was at least [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledged]] that Louie was out of place. But since ''Fables'' are influenced by people's beliefs about them, [[Fan Wank|it's not impossible that]] Louie exists simply [[Adaptation Displacement|because more people have seen the Disney movie than read Kipling's books,]] and [[Word of God]] is that he simply [[Did Not Do the Research]].

** Strangely, Louie was kept in both the [[Live Action Adaptation]] and "The Kipling group of Fables" in the comic book ''[[Fables]]'', despite being a Disney addition and neither part of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s work nor a genuine "Fable". In the live-action ''Jungle Book'' it was at least [[Lampshade Hanging|acknowledged]] that Louie was out of place. But since ''Fables'' are influenced by people's beliefs about them, [[Fan Wank|it's not impossible that]] Louie exists simply [[Adaptation Displacement|because more people have seen the Disney movie than read Kipling's books,]] and [[Word of God]] is that he simply [[Did Not Do the Research]].

** The ''Jungle Book 2'' has an Ocelot make a small appearance during a song. Ocelots live in South America. Same goes to the hippos considering how they live in Africa.

** In the animated spin-off ''Jungle Cubs'', aside from Louie there's baboons (there's some evil ones during season 1), babirusa, cheetah (surprisingly, they were cheetahs in India until the early 20th century) and many other critters.

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** The common parakeet, or budgy has been marching, proverbially, into the Netherlands driving out the native Sparrow (which as mention above is doing just fine in its non-native North American habitats).

** The Rock Pigeon<ref>or Rock Dove as it was called before ornithologist organizations adopted a name more consistent with the bird more often informally being called a pigeon than a dove</ref> ended up this way due to human intervention. The species's adaptability combined with feral populations ending up on every continent except for Antarctica ended up giving what originally lived on European cliffs a very wide range, to the point where their non-native status outside their original range isn't brought up much due to how common and widespread they are, as well as the fact that these countries often have their own native species of doves and pigeons, in contrast to how the House Sparrow and European Starling stand out in North America since their families are mostly restricted to the Old World; although the Americas have species called sparrows, they're actually in the same family as Old World buntings<ref>Details on the page for [[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit]]</ref>. The fact that Rock Pigeons outside their native habitat are descended from domesticated specimens also results in varying colors among individuals.

* The story of how [[~~Useful Notes/Singapore|~~Singapore]] got its name -- once upon a time, there was a fishing village called Temasek. Then a prince called Sang Nila Utama arrived, and upon reaching the shores of the island saw [[wikipedia:Malayan Tiger|a creature that looked like a giant cat, with a red body, a black head and a white chest]]. He asked his assistant what the animal was and [[You Fail Biology Forever|was told it was a lion]]. Hence the place was called the "Lion City" (i.e. ''Singapura'') from that point on.

* The story of how [[Singapore]] got its name -- once upon a time, there was a fishing village called Temasek. Then a prince called Sang Nila Utama arrived, and upon reaching the shores of the island saw [[wikipedia:Malayan Tiger|a creature that looked like a giant cat, with a red body, a black head and a white chest]]. He asked his assistant what the animal was and [[You Fail Biology Forever|was told it was a lion]]. Hence the place was called the "Lion City" (i.e. ''Singapura'') from that point on.

* Actual misplaced wildlife: there is a herd of South American [[wikipedia:Rhea (bird)|Rheas]] living in northeastern Germany, of all places. Apparently, winters here aren't that much worse than in Argentina.

** There are also a few colonies of escaped wallabies living wild in the UK.

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* About midway through ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'', Mr. Fredriksen and [[The Load|Russell]] are in Venezuela. Russell complains that he's tired. Mr. Fredriksen tells Russell to hurry up before a tiger eats him, but Russell whines that there aren't tigers in Venezuela.

* In the Disney feature ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'', during the "Gaucho Goofy" segment, we see Goofy wielding the bolas against an Argentine ostrich. Initially the ostrich appears to be an African ostrich, but the narrator then points out that unlike the African ostrich, the Argentine ostrich doesn't have decorative tail-feathers. The tail-feathers are then pulled off the ostrich's body.

* ''[[Madagascar]]'': Surprisingly, the movie (for the most part) avoids this trope. Not only do they populate the island with its native lemurs, but they correctly include the little-known [[wikipedia:Fossa ~~chr~~(~~28)animalchr(29~~)|fossa]] as their predator. Though they did slip up by having a hummingbird.

* ''[[Madagascar]]'': Surprisingly, the movie (for the most part) avoids this trope. Not only do they populate the island with its native lemurs, but they correctly include the little-known [[wikipedia:Fossa (animal)|fossa]] as their predator. Though they did slip up by having a hummingbird.