He mansplained the zoo animals to her and insisted Jacob sheep were actually goats. He had no idea she’d raised them and knew each by name
She called Eric out on all his 'facts' about Jacob sheep
Not doing proper research before mansplaining is the perfect recipe for disaster. A person who goes by u/zooophagous shared a similar instance on Reddit on August 28, 2026. In her post, she recounted a zoo visit with one of her sister's coworkers, Eric. Minutes into the trip, he started behaving like an expert and spewing nonsensical facts about animals. But Eric was oblivious that the author, whom he'd been mansplaining for hours, was a former zookeeper at the same zoo.
The wrong expert
The author took it personally when Eric began "educating" her about the zoo animals. Not only was he acting like an expert, but he was also "correcting" her about the animals she once cared for. The former zookeeper said, "I knew their names, breeds, and entire medical histories. This fact did not dissuade him from having to be right." Moreover, what ticked the author off was Eric's lack of knowledge about the animals. He thought the Jacob sheep were goats because of their horns, specifically their four horns. "He also loudly proclaimed that they were in the zoo because goats like that weren't worth anything to anyone else," she wrote.
Tired of the continuous nonsense, she explained that Jacob sheep were, in fact, a "500+-year-old heritage breed and a mature blue-eyed ram with four horns." Moreover, the author said Jacob sheep cost around $400 to $800 depending on the market. On top of that, the actual goats the zoo had were "Nigerian dwarfs," which were "extremely hardy and [a] versatile multipurpose breed."
Mansplaining with no knowledge
Men tend to 'mansplain' things even when they barely know anything about the subject. One clear example was Eric, who tried to "teach" the author things that she already knew. A Jeffbet survey on 2,000 American women, cited by Forbes, found 56% had been 'mansplained' at work. Ironically, the report found that 83% of women who have been mansplained had more relevant experience than the men.
Don't insult horned toads
Meanwhile, not many people knew about Jacob sheep. For instance, u/boethius61 wrote, "Yup, that sh*t ain't right. I feel like some drunk monk saw that and it inspired them to invent demons." Similarly, u/imnotlouise added, "I instantly thought there has to be some connection between these and the inverted pentagram."
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