Mistakes in The Lion Guard

This page lists general and factual mistakes in The Lion Guard. See also:
Mistakes in The Lion Guard Literature	Mistakes in The Lion Guard Episodes	Mistakes in It's UnBungalievable!
==General Mistakes==
Image	The mistake
 	Boboka's Son is sometimes shown with brown eyes and no eyelashes, but at other times is seen with olive green eyes with eyelashes.
 	Nne is sometimes shown with more stripes on his forehead than he should, and at other times, none at all.
 	Mbuni's eyes are blue with eyelashes in some episodes but brown and without eyelashes in others.
 	Tiifu is sometimes shown with darker cream stripes on her leg, but at other times, these stripes are absent.
 	Kiara is sometimes shown with longer fur on her chest, but other times, it is absent.
 	Fuli's paw pads change color frequently.
 	During the theme song, egrets are models of Ono.
 	During the theme song, Bunga is standing in front of Kion as he uses the Roar of the Elders but is not affected by the force of the Roar.
 	In the theme song for early Season 2, when Kion growls at the hyenas, his Mark of the Guard is missing. This is because this image was recycled from The Rise of Scar.
 	In the promotional alphabet song, Aardvark is misspelt Ardvark despite the lyrics stating that 'Alphabetically, Aardvark is the boss'.
 	The model used for infant Kion in The Rise of Scar, The Morning Report and The Lake of Reflection uses an Outlander nose instead of a Pridelander one.
 	Kion’s claws change color frequently.
 	Fuli’s Mark of the Guard is usually replaced by a circular mark and or she is missing the circular ring mark she has on her left shoulder.
==Factual Mistakes==
*Beshte and other hippopotamuses have three toes on each hoof, while real hippos have four toes on each hoof.
*Fuli has retractable claws, while real cheetahs have non-retractable claws that act like spike shoes.
*Makucha, Badili, and Mapigano have non-retractable claws, while real leopards have retractable claws, and only extend their claws when they need them.
*Despite being a juvenile, Ono has orange breeding plumes, which in reality are only present on adult egrets.
*Janja is the leader of his clan, despite being a male. In reality, female hyenas are dominant.
*Hyenas are portrayed as yelping like dogs, but real hyenas are not dogs nor do they sound like them. They are more closely related to felines.
*Kiara is destined to become the leader of her pride since she is the oldest child of Simba and Nala, despite being a female. In reality, male lions are dominant.
**Zira and Rani are also the leaders of the their prides, despite being females.
*Female ostriches in the show such as Mbuni have black feathers, despite the fact that only males have black feathers in real life. Females have brown plumage to help them blend in with the nest.
*Kambuni bares the coloring of an adult male ostrich rather than a female chick.
*Ostriches are depicted with a claw on each toe. Real ostriches have only one claw on the larger toe.
*Fuli lacks the tear streaks under her eyes that all real cheetahs have.
*Although he's identified as an Egyptian cobra, Ushari bears the external hood markings of an Indian cobra, a species that does not live in Africa.
*Zebras make a horse neigh sound, but zebras do not neigh like horses; they bark like jackals or bray like donkeys.
*Only Makuu's teeth on his top jaw stick out when his mouth is closed like on an alligator, despite him being a crocodile. The same goes for some other crocodiles in the series.
*Animals that don't have eyelids, such as snakes and fish, are shown blinking or closing their eyes throughout the series.
*The tongues of giraffes in the series are pink rather than the blue-black hue seen on real giraffes.
*Swala and other female gazelle horns are the same sizes as the male gazelles, despite them being drastically shorter than the males' horns in real life.
*Muhimu's son Hamu got up and walked right after he was born. In real life, it takes about fifteen minutes after birth for his kind to walk. In addition to this, a few minutes after he is born, he kicks Janja, but it takes real zebras about two days after birth to run and kick properly.
*Jasiri's quote, "We're the clean-up crew" and Ono's quote "hyenas are scavengers", are not completely accurate. Ninety percent of a spotted hyena's diet is food they've caught themselves, so only ten percent of their food consists of leftovers. The only hyena species that actually are scavengers are the striped hyena and the brown hyena.
*The rosette shape of Fuli's spots indicates that she is a mutation of cheetah called the king cheetah, whose spots are darker and more abstract (though they do not have rosettes, Fuli's spots resemble a simplified version of a king cheetah's markings). However, king cheetahs have three black stripes down their back, white markings on their back-sides meant to mimic a honey badger's fur pattern to warn off predators, yet Fuli does not have that.
*There is a painting of an elk in the Lair of the Lion Guard. However, elk are native to North America and Asia and cannot be found in Africa, so it's odd that Rafiki would know what one is.
*Ushari is shown restraining Bunga by constricting, which cobras are incapable of in real life. Pythons on the other hand are capable of crushing their victims to death by constricting them.
*During The Trail to Udugu, Kion and Kiara find paw prints on the ground and assume it's Nala's prints. However, because the claw marks were sticking out, they're probably dog prints, as lions will retract their claws to keep them sharp for usage.
*There is a mention of reindeer in Timon and Pumbaa's Christmas. However, reindeer are native to North America, Europe, and Asia and cannot be found in Africa. 
*Bunga is blue and white, but in real life, honey badgers are black and white.
*Monkeys are shown to have prehensile tails that can grab onto tree branches. This physical feature is only available in New World monkeys of Central and South America.
*Despite being both female and a juvenile, Makini has the vibrant markings of an adult male mandrill.
*Makuu and the crocodiles not only are able to get close to Basi's Pod, who peacefully allow them to, but are also able to force the hippos out of Big Springs. In real life, hippos are one of the most aggressive animal species in the world and are known to have the ability to bite an adult crocodile in half, as well as being highly territorial towards anything that crosses their path.
*Dhahabu is a full-grown golden zebra. In the real world, they wouldn't survive up to adulthood unless they are in captivity.
*As both an infant and a young cub, Fuli doesn't have a black-and-white stripe battern down her back. In real life, young cheetah cubs have these markings to imitate that of a honey badger, which will intimidate predators.
*Kinyonga can change her colors really fast, but that can't be done with real chameleons. Chameleons can´t turn invisible like Kinyonga can.
**Kinyonga also appears to be a veiled chameleon, but that species lives in the Arabian Peninsula rather than Africa.
*Mtoto's tusk seems to be growing out of his lower jaw, but in real life elephant tusks grow out of the upper jaw.
*Ma Tembo's Herd includes bull elephants, but in real life bulls live separate from herds.
*Bees are depicted living inside hives that resemble hornet nests. Real beehives are just honeycombs dangling from trees or lining the inside of hollow trees.
*Impalas are all depicted as having horns, which only males possess.
*Hares are shown with black, hairless noses like on a dog, but in real life rabbits and hares have noses shaped like a slit.
*Tamaa is supposedly a fork-tailed drongo, but he has tail streamers and a head crest like a greater racket-tailed drongo, a species that does not live in Africa. Also, since Tamaa is a bird, he isn't supposed to have teeth, but he is shown multiple times with teeth in the episode The Call of the Drongo.
**In addition, Anga is also depicted with teeth even though martial eagles do not possess them in real life.
*Red colobuses live only on the island of Zanzibar, not on mainland Africa like Tumbili's Troop.
*Sumu has only six legs and four eyes, but since scorpions are arachnids, he should have eight of both. Also, his eyes are arranged like a spider's rather than an actual scorpion's.
*Kenge's venom is portrayed only inducing paralysis. A real monitor lizard's venom not only causes that but also prevents blood clotting. However, this may have been done on purpose to make the show kid-friendly.
*Kenge has his upper teeth sticking out of his mouth, but real-life monitor lizards do not show this trait.
*Mpishi makes noises like a red-tailed hawk rather than a real harrier hawk.
**Mpishi is also referred to as a hawk by the characters including herself, but harrier hawks are not true hawks at all.
*Aardwolves are stated to look like hyenas and take offense when being called one. Aardwolves actually are a type of hyena.
*Kifaru and Mwenzi's friendship perpetrates one side of a story that tickbirds have a symbiotic relationship with rhinoceroses. In real life, oxpeckers are also parasites feeding on the blood of larger animals, even pecking wounds to get it. This may have been cut from the show to make it kid-friendly.
*Shupavu's Group all have colors which do not match those of real African skinks.
*When drinking water, some giraffes don’t spread their legs and just bend over their necks.
*Despite real-life rhinos having three toes, Young Rhino's Mother and Kifaru have four toes.
*Unlike real cheetahs who have spots all over their bodies, Fuli has no spots on her underbelly.
*Shujaa pounds his chest with his fists, instead of open or cupped hands like real gorillas.
*Crocodiles are shown having only four fingers instead of five. They also have claws on all fingers, when real-life crocodilians have claws on only three fingers.
**Also, most of the other reptiles have four fingers instead of five like in real-life.
*Kinyonga is shown in her debut episode running from the skinks, but in real life chameleons are very slow.
*Rafiki is said to be a mandrill, but he's more of a mandrill/baboon cross due to the fact that he has a white mane and tail.
*Reirei and other jackals are shown to be nearly the same size as hyenas. In real life jackals are much smaller than hyenas.
*Ono sometimes reports to the rest of the Guard that Mzingo and his vultures are circling and claims it as not good. Vultures usually circle when they find a carcass and eat it so it doesn't spread diseases.
*Even though yellow wagtails migrate north to Europe during Africa's dry season, Nyuni is shown in the episode The Morning Report, in the dry season.
*In A Real Meal, when Mpishi and Mwoga are dancing together, Mpishi is bigger than Mwoga, but in real life vultures are bigger than harrier hawks.
*The vultures can hover, but in real life, since vultures are heavy birds, they don't have the ability to hover and would land if so close to the ground.
*Kifaru is revealed to be a member of Mbeya's Crash in Pride Landers Unite!, even though he's a white rhinoceros while Mbeya and the other rhinos are black rhinoceroses. Also, black rhinoceroses are solitary whereas it's the white rhinoceroses that form crashes.
*Laini's Group are shown being active in the daytime, but in real life, galagos are nocturnal.
*Ono had stated that a snow leopard's fur allows it to blend in with the snow. It is not an accurate fact because a snow leopard's fur is gray so it can blend right in with the mountain's rocks.
*Only healthy adult honey badgers are immune to a cobra bite, and even so, they are still weakened by the venom, so they will often pass out and sleep the venom out of their system. A young honey badger like Bunga would quickly pass out and die due to not having a strong enough immune system in his youth.
*The komodo dragons in The Lion Guard are a dark hue of swampy green, but in real life, the komodo dragon is a mixture of brown and gray.
*The characters aren’t shown with the climate sensitivities their bodies would realistically have. For example, the various members of the guard are shown to be just fine traveling through cold, snowy environments despite being tropical animals (Besthe and Mankini in particular) who would likely freeze to death. This is also the case with Ora, even worse because as a Komodo dragon he’s a cold-blooded reptile. Also, Chuluun the snow leopard is shown to be in no discomfort whatsoever when in tropical climates such as near the Dragon Island. 
*The snow monkeys in The Lion Guard are creamy-white when in real life they are gray.
*In Battle for the Pride Lands, Scar and Kion both get their scars via cobra bites, and their scars merely appear as scratched skin exposing flesh. In addition, it is stated that the venom will corrupt their morality. This is not true to reality as bite from a cobra's jaws can cause punctures in the skin, which will bleed irregularly before becoming a flesh wound. In addition, cobra venom can kill within a maximum of 30 minutes in addition to brain damage and other extensive bodily damage, yet Scar is stated to have not cured the bite from the venom and survived, whilst Kion, a young teen who with a more vulnerable immune system, travels for a good amount of months to the Tree of Life with the venom still in his system. It's likely that this fact was intentionally censored, or ignored by the writers to keep this show kid-friendly.
**Also, during the Lion Guard's stay at the Tree of Life, the healing methods that Kion goes through, such as crossing a river to get a flower, getting mud on his face, and having tree-frogs hop on him, would realistically not neutralize the venom in his system.
*In Battle for the Pride Lands, Ushari and Bunga both fall into the lava pit, and a splash of lava can be seen, indicating Ushari's death. In reality, he would've died before he would even get close to the lava due to the noxious flames of the volcano suffocating him, and then the heat waves from the volcano burning him alive before he would land in the lava.
**Likewise, Bunga and Ono would've died the same way, and Ono's eyes would've been burned as opposed to being faded.
*In The River of Patience and The Lake of Reflection, Ora bites Baliyo and Beshte. It is stated that the venom will 'wear off' when in reality, a single bite from a komodo dragon can kill a victim within hours.
*In "Undercover Kinyonga", "The Ukumbusho Tradition", and "The Hyena Resistance", Fuli is heard inaccurately growling and snarling like a tiger. Cheetahs can't roar, they yelp, chirp, meow, purr, and hiss.
*Chuluun has lavender-colored fur without any spots on her back, but in real life, snow leopards are gray with a spotted overside.
*Dogo and Kijana are hunters, but in real life jackal pups don't hunt until they grow older.
*Dogo and Kijana appear to remain cubs in Season 3 despite a supposed 2 year gap between Seasons 2 and 3, in which they would likely be teenagers.
**A similar mistake is with Wema and Tunu.
*The jackals make dog noises, but cannot do so in real life.
*Mzingo and his vultures are shown to attack living animals, but in real life they only scavenge for dead animals.
*Kion is shown to have a adult roar, (not counting the Roar of the Elders) but lion cubs don't have that type of roar until they get older.
*Bunga is mostly shown walking on his hind legs, but in real life honey badgers walk on four legs.
*One scene showed Ono lifting Bunga up effortlessly, but egrets cannot do so.
*Fuli and Azaad are depicted with yellow fur but in real life their fur is more of a pale golden-yellow.
*Kion and the Lion Guard remain young teenagers throughout the entiredy of Season 3. This would not be accurate as Kiara has grown from a teen to a young adult during the events of Season 3, and naturally the Lion Guard would've been much, much older by the events of Return to the Pride Lands. Rani would've also been a young adult by the end of the series.
*Kovu, Kion, and Scar's scars are permanent but in real life scars aren't permanent on animals.
**In The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Kovu receives a scar from his mother Zira, but realistically, Kovu's left eye would've been blind from the hit and he would've received 5 vertical scars on his face.
*Rani is seen crying since Janna died but in real life lions don't cry at all.
*Kion's Roar of The Elders is from a leopard, not a lion.
*The Servals is shown to have orange fur but in real life they more of a pale golden-yellow
*When Badili roars at Mapigano, he makes a puppy whimper and runs away. Leopards don't whimper.
*Some felines characters such as females are depicted without whiskers but in real life they do have them and without them they lose they senses.
*Ono is shown to have good eye sight but in real life egrets don't.
*The series has lots of problems with scale. The aforementioned jackals are too large, but Kenge and Ora are unrealistically large for a monitor lizard, Shujaa is too large, and gazelles are shown being the same size as zebras.
*The snow monkeys seem to live on the same mountain as the red pandas and Chuluun, despite the former being endemic to Japan while the others are from mainland Asia (coexisting in the Himalayas and adjacent areas).
*The order the Lion Guard travels around Asia to get to the Tree of Life is completely illogical, as they seem to reach southeast and Central Asia before getting to the Middle East despite coming from Africa. Not to mention how unrealistic them being able to travel that far over the course of several days is.
*Crocodiles in the series appear as green, even though real crocodiles are often grey.
*The skinks have inaccurately bright colors, which real skinks don't.
*Komodo Island is considerably closer to Australia than it is to mainland Asia, so it doesn’t make sense how it was shown being so close to the Asian coast that it could be connected by a small land bridge.
*When Ono hatched out of his egg he was seen with flight feathers when in reality most birds hatch they are born with downy feathers waiting a couple of weeks before they gain their flight feathers.
*Makucha is shown hunting with his leap. Leopards are solitary animals.
*Smun and his prickle of porcupines are shown chasing small animals during the assault on the Tree of Life. In reality, porcupines are not hunters, they're vegetarians. In addition, porcupines are not fast runners at all; Their sharp defensive trigger hairs (also known as quills) ward off predators, and their diet of vegetation do not warrant a need for them to run.
*Azaad's comment about cheetahs not having friends is a bit strange considering how male cheetahs (typically brothers) often do live in coalitions of 2-4 cheetahs.
*In "Fuli's New Family", several characters comment on how soft Fuli's fur is. In reality, cheetahs do not have soft fur.
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