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Free Entry for People with Animal Surnames 7/2 @ Various Wildlife Parks (e.g. Featherdale, Healesville Sanctuary, Bonorong etc.)

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This Sunday, selected zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around Australia are giving free entry to anyone with an animal surname, to celebrate the launch of the Great Australian Wildlife Book Collection by Discovery and Animal Planet, in conjunction with News Corp Australia

Those with an animal surname will need to show identification, such as a driver’s licence, and tickets for Healesville Sanctuary will need to be pre-registered here.

Looking at the article they seem to accept some not so obvious animal surname interpretations so do your research on your surname. Behind The Name: Surnames Categorized "animals"

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  • +64

    What about some people that behave like animals? lol

  • +30

    This is discrimination towards people with non-animal last names

    • +38

      It's basically a deal for white people only…

      • +2

        Or non-whites who marry a white person

      • +8

        Many cultures have animal names as / in family names. Just show a translation if needed.

        • +3

          I wonder if they will accept. Is there a T&C?

          • +16

            @first in line: They even give the example of Vacca (cow in Italian) in the Deal link!

            Nothing I could find in the promotion says the family name must be in English!
            That would be discriminatory!

            The Deal Link provides examples:
            SURNAMES YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE ANIMAL NAMES
            Hart (male deer)
            Loris (nocturnal primate)
            Best (derived from beast)
            Bullock (young bull)
            Vacca (cow in Italian)

            in Mandarin… (from a quick search)
            Family names may contain:
            Ma (马 horse )
            Niu ( 牛 bull )
            Long (龙 dragon )
            Xiong (熊 bear )
            Bao (鲍 abalone )
            etc

            (I've got a turtle named after my family name. Don't know if it's Latin name will be acceptable.)

            • @INFIDEL: Good point. You could look at genus names as well.

              • @try2bhelpful: The turtle has a common name of (my family name)'s turtle. It's a well known family name in the zoo & conservation world, but not an animal name.

                The only QLD "zoo" Paradise Country - is a small theme park on the Gold Coast, so wasn't interested.

                • @INFIDEL: Thanks. It just might’ve been worth a thought.

                  • @try2bhelpful: Thanks. But Latin taxonomic names might tax the zoo staff in this promotion😉
                    Might help others👍

      • +6

        "in conjunction with News Corp Australia"

      • +34

        Ernie Dingo is definitely not white…

      • +1

        If we can trully use the Surnames categorized as animal list, then there will be a lot of Indians people eligible for this (Singh)

        • I always thought Singh in Hindi/Urdu meant horn (animals horn).

      • Huy Fong Cow is definitely not white

    • That's right and this discrimination is wrong. Bloody Thomsons have got a gazelle, what have Puddings got, nothen!

    • You can always argue that your last name means "animal name" in whatever language

  • +4

    If I identify as a person named Sam Skunk and they don't let me in, I'll sue the bigots..

    • I mean sure, if you've indeed legally changed your name to Sam Skunk and have an ID card to that effect, they should honour it.

      • It's how he feels on the inside that matters…

        • Morally? Absolutely. Legally, less so.

  • +3

    I nominate Nathan Lyon!

    • And don’t forget he’s the GOAT.

      See what I did there….

  • +29

    Apparently "Singh" means "lion" so every Punjabi can go in for free.

    • Kaur too, probably all Sikh are entitled too

    • +1

      There are many Punjabi's (50%) who are not named Singh.

      It seems it used used pre-18th century in northern India, after which a Guru mandated it's use by all Sikh males. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singh

      At a tangent… Singapore (Land of Lions), Sinhala (people of Sri Lanka, meaning roughly lion killers).

  • +6

    Wow that is a weird way to offer a promotion for free entry.

    • I thought the exact same thing!

  • -5

    DISCRIMINATION

    • -1

      Jesus Christ people this is a joke

      • +3

        That's ozbargain for you

        • -1

          I'm so confused… I swear if the first vote on this was a positive, the comment would have been upvoted.

          People see a neg and pile on because of an incapability of independent thought (which explains half the threads here, which are essentially "tell me how I should feel about this particular subject or interaction")

          • @picklewizard: I didn't neg your comment but IMO there are 3 interpretations of your comment. All of them make them a shit comment worthy of a neg

            • Making a joke. Not funny in a comment of text but perhaps in person with a sarcastic tone may have elicited a chuckle. Or perhaps text with a ;) or /s maybe?
            • Claiming legitimate discrimination for not having the right surname. (Bit of entitlement)
            • An implication that could be interpreted that discrimination isn't an issue. Something conservative leaning media are fond off.

            Also explaining that something you said is a joke is never a good sign it was a good joke but hey I'm no jokeologist.

  • +4

    Would they take mythical animal surnames such as "Phoenix"?

  • +5

    What are typical English animal surnames? I can't think of any off the top of my head.

    • +2

      Grandmother's maiden name is Sparrow, but that's all I can think of.

      • +10

        <logs into your mother's online banking account>

    • +2

      This should help get more people in for free https://surnames.behindthename.com/names/tag/animals

    • +2

      Fox, Bird, Hawk

    • +2

      Finch

    • So they will only accept "English" surnames? How about other nationalities?

      • +2

        How did you get that idea?
        Foreign language examples were already given above.

        Check the Deal Link.
        They give the example of Vacca (cow in Italian)!
        Just have a translation ready.

        • Thanks, did not notice. Cool.

        • +1

          Or a screenshot of a forged translation.

    • +6

      Anything with Cock

    • Was wondering the same…Here's what I came up with:

      Peacock (Andrew Peacock, politician)
      Bird
      Herring

  • +10

    Finally Mike Hawk gets the recognition he deserves.

    • +3

      Also Mike (profanity).

      • You mean Mike Hunt?

        • Oh yeah nice dude reminds me of Mike Gass

  • +17

    should this deal be labelled "targeted"?

  • +8

    Finally having Mole as your surname comes in handy.

    • +2

      Like, is that you Kylie?

      • +2

        Or Adrian, aged 13 and 3/4.

  • +3

    Woohoo my chihuahua can enter for free, her name is Roo Roo

  • +1

    I'll be there!

  • +1

    Does Cock count ?

  • +1

    My name is Badger, Honey Badger.

    • Your name is not the shape of any animal.

      • +2

        It is a shape of animal barking.

  • Monty Python?

  • Hancock or 'handcock'

  • Good opportunity for social justice warriors to rant about something unimportant.

    • +4

      So like that comment?

  • Ugh. Read this as "for people with Anime Surnames".

  • yay i'm a Henry !!

  • I dunno I'm on the fence with this deal; I get the gimmick of it but these are places that charge quite a bit for entry. This isn't like get a free showbag or free small drink or chips at some eatery.

    • +2

      on the fence with this deal

      Like, Russell Crowe?

  • +3

    Thanks so much…see you there!
    Regards
    Fred Hippopotamus

  • My mate Drew has the surname Peacock, he'll be rapt

    • I also know an Andrew peacock! Prob the same person..

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