* CreatorWorship: Tet Zoo being one of the most notable zoology blogs out there, this was inevitable.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ground hornbills.
** Other such Darkhorses include azdarchids, babirusa, crocodylians and potoos.
* FanNickname: "Tet Zoo", a term also used by Naish himself.
* GeniusBonus: The April Fools' posts tend to have a lot of these.
* HilariousInHindsight: In a [[http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/04/14/british-ornithischians/ 2008 post]] Naish commented on Gregory Paul naming a dinosaur genus ''Mantellisaurus'', opining that ''Mantellodon'' would have been a better name. [[http://gspauldino.com/Risingdiversity2011.pdf A few years later]] Paul actually named a different dinosaur genus ''Mantellodon''.
* NightmareFuel: Tapir attacks. Especially when one of the victims of said attacks [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/08/11/tapir-attacks-past-present-not-future/#comment-10029 chimed in]] with her firsthand account...
* {{Squick}}: There have been posts on the genitals of turtles, ducks, porcupines, elephants...
** Two-toed sloths climb into latrines and feed on feces and urine.
** Great tits eat the brains of hibernating bats.
** One of the comments to [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/08/11/tapir-attacks-past-present-not-future/ this post]] mentions a zoo accident involving an anteater [[spoiler:pushing its long sticky tongue up its keeper's nose, and presumably into his sinuses.]]