History Main / MisplacedWildlife

** The LicensedGame of the movie, on the other hand, turns this trope UpToEleven. Just about ''all'' of the enemies Tarzan has to avoid are misplaced, from South American toucans, macaws and squirrel monkeys to ''piranhas'' (yes, the game plays this example straight after the movie it's based on parodies it). The ring-tailed lemurs return from the movie, as do the vicious baboons, notable for being just about the ''only'' African enemies encountered.

* ''Disney/RobinHood'' takes place in Medieval England, but features North American species such as raccoons and grizzly bears, but also African and Asian species such as lions, elephants, hippos, and rhinos, and an unidentifiable constrictor snake that seems out of place. (Of course, the animals were cast based on the characters' personalities--King Richard the Lionheart is a lion; cunning Robin Hood is a fox. Also, these animals are all depicted as being able to talk, which is zoologically implausible.)

* The Norwegian Blue is an example of a ''seriously'' misplaced tropical parrot which would indeed be a rarity in the fjords. Of course, it's entirely possible the [[MontyPython pet shop owner]] was embellishing things somewhat...
* Series/{{House}} once uses maggots to treat a patient's burns. This is a real medical procedure used to remove necrotic tissue while leaving healthy intact (although it's now known that they will eat healthy tissue if left alone too long). Of course, the doctor wouldn't really just dump the maggots all over the wound -- and it doesn't work too well with the mealworms that were actually used on the show.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat "Phantom cats"]], a cryptozoological phenomenon revolving around large wild cats being sighted outside their indigenous environments. A lot of cases are probably just hysteria, of course, but in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_Australia Australia]], at least, invasive wild cats are a legitimate problem.

** The ''Animaniacs'' version also apparantly kept the leafcutter ants.

* ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'' came from "Darkest Peru". Spectacled (also known as Andean) bears are native to Peru and other regions of South America, but unfortuantely Paddington Bear looks absolutely nothing like a Spectacled bear.

* One Tex Avery cartoon "Slap Happy Lion", had a once ferocious lion that terrified all the other animals in the jungle with his roars, including a zebra, flamingo, a trio crocodiles, ostrich, snakes, a gorilla, and.....a kangaroo?

* ''SlyCooper: Thieves in Time'' features El Jefe, a Cuban tiger, attempting to take over feudal Japan and frame Sly's ancestor Rioichi for poisoning the shogun. Sly and Bentley [[DiscussedTrope discuss the fact]] that a tiger belongs in a tropical jungle, not Japan, although Cuba's jungles are on the wrong side of the world for a tiger (though, given a world populated by {{Funny Animal}}s, it's not so impossible).

* The accents and mammals (Tasmanian devil, echidna) in ''LegendOfTheGuardians'' make it pretty clear we're in Australia, but it includes ''every owl species in the world''.

*** Indy misidentifies the large bats as vampire bats, which aren't found in India. Granted, he might've been yanking his companions' chains about those. In reality, if you see a bat you can in any way describe as large it's probably a "megabat", which are also know as "fruit bats", because that's what they eat.

* The SoBadItsGood ''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.

* the ''{{Discworld}}'' fic ''Fanfic/NatureStudies'' deals with some ''seriously'' misplaced wildlife. CMOT Dibbler's brainwave - to establish a safari park nearby to Ankh-Morpork - goes seriously wrong when the imported animals escape and colonise Hide Park. An Urban Safari ensues to round them up, led by an ActionGirl who, unlike Dibbler, knows all about [[DarkestAfrica Howondalandian]] fauna.

* HouseMD once used maggots to treat a patient's burns. This is a real medical procedure used to remove necrotic tissue while leaving healthy intact (although it's now known that they will eat healthy tissue if left alone too long). Of course, the doctor wouldn't really just dump the maggots all over the wound--and it doesn't work too well with the mealworms that were actually used on the show.

* ''Disney/RobinHood'' takes place in Medieval England, but features North American species such as raccoons and grizzly bears, but also African and Asian species such as lions, elephants, hippos, and rhinos. As well as some kind of unidentified constrictor snake, when there are about three species of colubrid and one species of viper in England.
** Of course, the species in that movie were cast according to symbolism, not scientific accuracy. The symbolism would have been recognized in Medieval England, as King Richard I WAS known as "Richard Lionheart", and during that period, trickster tales involving Reynard the fox were very popular with the peasants. Even casting a badger as a member of the clergy is consistent with the roles played by animals in the Reynard stories. FridgeBrilliance?

** HouseMD once used maggots to treat a patient's burns. This is a real medical procedure used to remove necrotic tissue while leaving healthy intact (although it's now known that they will eat healthy tissue if left alone too long). Of course, the doctor wouldn't really just dump the maggots all over the wound--and it doesn't work too well with the mealworms that were actually used on the show.

* Likewise, many low-budget films or crime shows will toss a few mealworms onto a prop corpse, trusting viewers will be too squicked out by the wriggling to realize they aren't maggots, and in fact are beetle larvae that not only don't eat decomposing flesh, but are herbivores, i.e. they only eat plants.

** Besides, when you beat the main storyline of the original ''BW'' games, you start meeting Pokémon from prior generations in the wild.

* No longer true, due to the idea in the Gen V sequel games of computer malfunctions releasing non-native mons into the region. Krabby, Onix and Magnemite are seen during one of the Dawn visit eps.

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'' Andrew, when helping the animals of the Woods with their problems, meets an ''octopus'', somehow surviving on land and able to fly. His advice?

** Better done [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0564.html there]], providing the page quote.

** Lovingly parodied in ''TheMonsterSquad'', where the same animals appear in the Transylvania prologue.

* In ''Outbreak,'' we see a ''herd'' of South American black-capped capuchins running away from a burning rainforest in Africa.

* ''{{Troy}}'' contains a moment where a llama is seen in the city of Troy, despite the fact that llamas are new-world animals and would never have been found in ancient Greece/Troy. The same crowd scene has a cage filled with budgerigars (commonly called parakeets in the US). These are small Australian parrots that weren't discovered until the 19th Century.

* ''BringingUpBaby'' has a leopard from South America. Leopards are old world cats, found in Africa and Asia. South America is the domain of jaguars. One wonders why they called the cat a leopard, as Baby was even ''played'' by a jaguar. Someone forgot to do their homework in zoology, it seems.

* ''Disney/RobinHood'' takes place in Medieval England, but features North American species such as raccoons and grizzly bears, but also African and Asian species such as lions, elephants, hippos, and rhinos.