Teddy's Establishing Character Moment is getting caught giving water balloons to the chimpanzees so they can throw them back at obnoxious peanut-throwing tourists.
The prolonged description of how much of a troublemaker Henry the Hippo is. For one thing, he enjoyed shooting sprays of poop at observers (soiling an ambassador, a cabinet member, and the President's daughter at a D.C. zoo). His last owner before FunJungle was a circus who pawned him off to an unsuspecting FunJungle, getting the animal purchasing staff fired after Henry injured a couple of employees and then soiled Pointy-Haired Boss Martin Del Gato in the space of a day or two.
An escaped tiger causes a gala event to break up in panic but is more interested in eating the refreshments than the guests, not that this keeps Pete Thwacker, the fussy and irritable publicity spokesman, from climbing an eight-foot lamp post in a panic.
The funeral of Henry the Hippo is presided over by the Archbishop of Houston, who considered the whole thing an undignified insult when he was first asked. He still agreed to do it rather than have a famous rabbi take his place and cause the millions of people watching the televised event to assume that the most famous hippo on Earth was Jewish.
Poached
Pete referring to the toy koala he is using to cover up the theft of the real koala as the "emergency backup koala".
While trying to arrest Teddy for questioning, Large Marge and an equally burly local cop trip and fall on top of the toy koala, squashing it in front of horrified tourists (who are no less upset once they learn it was a toy and they were being fooled). Even better, one tourist records the whole thing and posts a slow motion version (giving Marge plenty of time to make an Oh, Crap! face as she falls) online.
Panda-Monium
Teddy being pantsed by a dolphin while swimming in the dolphin tank and then flipped into the air by the playful mammal before he can put his pants back on.
A victim of an earlier pantsing by the same dolphin later recalls how he was wearing distinctive trunks that his companion could see being carried away by the dolphin. When she asked if he's just been pantsed, he sheepishly said "Maybe", causing her to laugh so hard that she was barely able to swim back to the tank ladder.
A bumbling security guard trying to taser a fleeing criminal accidentally trips over a little kid and tasers an old lady (who the criminal then trips over). The way he proudly recounts the story while getting embarrassed at each ridiculous part of it really sells the scene.
Lion Down
The fish cannon being used to feed the penguins gets knocked up to top speed by accident, with one penguin accidentally being caught in the suction and being launched out of the cannon, becoming "the first penguin in history to fly".
A Know-Nothing Know-It-All social media blogger misspells the words stupid, moronic, and idiotic while insulting the ESA. Teddy describes his errors as "attesting to who the real stupid, moronic, idiot was."
The Big Bad of the book being covered in a heap of compost.
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks
The Barksdale twins illegally purchase a pet anaconda and then brag about how they hid it in the back of the family pickup during a search by Fish & Wildlife officials Teddy tipped off. Summer tells the twins that their (equally loutish) parents just got into that pickup for a drive, at which point there are a pair of very high-pitched screams from the pickup, that are audible from several dozen yards away, and the Barksdale parents swerve off the road, crash, and run away as fast as possible due to being startled by the snake's presence.
The chaos at the shady rival animal theme park Snakes Alive in the climax, when various animals escape due to the actions of the villains when they crash their car at the park.
The PA announcer tells the guests not to worry, and to let the staff handle things. Teddy notes that (with one exception) every staff member in sight is running away themselves, "often shoving elderly women and children out of their way".
One of the book's villians ends up taking cover on top of a glass display case of meat, and is convinced that the hyenas drooling over the meat want to eat her.
An animal smuggler who is the villain of the B-plot tries to hold a rare venomous snake hostage so the police will let him go. Three guesses how that turns out for him, although fortunately, there is a handy supply of antivenom.
Whale Done
The carcass of a beached whale is blown up, splattering pieces of gore all across the local beach houses (most of whose Upper-Class Twit owners don't come across very positively), and sometimes smashing through windows and getting inside of the houses.
Movie star Jackson Cross: My kitchen! My breakfast nook! My Picasso!
The main villain mistakes a lemur for an "ugly koala" while taking it hostage with a taser, only to get peed on and then tasered by the frightened lemur. All of this happens at the premier of a new action movie. The producer is rather dazed by the whacky hijinks and, upon learning that this kind of thing constantly happens to Teddy, offers to make a movie about him.
