Swiss Family LIES

when i was little, i saw the 1960 movie swiss family robinson (um obviously not in the theatres, but on VHS); i was entranced and in love with all the animals, the island, and the whole family. so as i was playing with the tivo last night, i found that it was going to play on tv today. i was delighted and excited, 'cause i didn't remember that much of it.

obviously i didn't remember it was all a pack of LIES. they are many lies, ennumerated as follows:

1. they are on some tropical island, obviously somewhere near the south pacific. and somehow this one island in the middle of nowhere is the home of a monitor, a tiger, a baby elephant, sharks, monkeys, an ostrich. but how did they get there? and how do they sustain viable populations if they've always been there? (although they talk about a "land bridge to asia" theory but it still doesn't speak to sustainable populations).
2. they have flamingoes there too. maybe the theory of a land bridge to asia might have been some sort of lame explanation, but as flamingoes are native to south america, northern europe, and africa, that explanation doesn't, erm, fly.
   
3. baby elephants don't exist without a herd. a herd is very protective of their calves. where the hell did the baby elephant come from?
   
4. when the men in the family are hauling the animals to the island from the shipwreck, they are attacked by sharks. they shoot the sharks, and scare them away. however, if you shoot a shark, it bleeds, then doesn't it follow that it attracts more sharks?
5. the youngest son, francis, is, to me, an imperialist (and extremely annoying). he captures almost all the animals on the island and keeps them as his pets. yet the family was escaping napoleon, who they claimed was an imperialist himself. so shouldn't they teach their kid that animals belong in the wild, in their own place, rather than existing as his playthings?
6. there's a scene where the older brothers find a zebra stuck in mud being stalked by hyenas (both from africa, not asia), and they free it and use it as a riding horse. hello? do they know how long it takes to saddle-break a horse? a wild zebra, therefore, must be notably harder to break.

so i've been disillusioned once again. walt disney, how could you?