Took the kids to Edinburgh Zoo years ago, they were more fascinated by the bonus fox sitting in one of the empty enclosures than the collections nearby…
Logged in for the first time today and holy moly I can only conclude from the numbers on this that people are desperately craving benign observations, and I get it
I don't know if you can see in the photo, but for some reason this house (which may actually be a real estate company?) put out a field-ful of gourds and there were 4-5 visible squirrels outright frolicking when I walked by.
"He was so assured and self-appreciatory a talker that really there was no need to do more than demonstrate wakefulness by an occasional nod, so that I was able to look around and take stock of the room’s crowded décor" - JLCarr
Yep! My inane bullshit is getting liked by so many people. And I’m a nobody on here; a real ham and egger, a greenhorn, a social abecedarian, a right nubcake I am.
The first time I visited the zoo in Omaha, a groundhog ran up to my foot and just stood there, staring at me, waiting for a treat. It was the first time I ever saw a groundhog, and it was the highlight of my day.
The Singaporean squirrel equivalent are these giant monitor lizards, so the zoo actually had signs telling (presumably foreign) visitors that they weren't escapees
I was in Bangalore and went to a zoo there. They had a cage with monkeys. Meanwhile, there were all sorts of monkeys hanging out in the trees everywhere. Must suck to be the jailed monkey watching all the others jump around free.
you know they're taunting the others. "oh yeah? i just run around wherever I want and eat all the stupid junk I can get my dumb little paws on. but your thing sounds cool too"
Oh yeah big cat enclosure sometimes get domestic cat visitors and sometimes they let them stay cheetahs are notoriously anxious and like having friends
We were at a small zoo years ago and watched a mama weasel run back and forth across the path in front of us, carrying her youngsters to safety. Highlight of the visit for us and our boys. (Well, aside from the magpie, which are like weeds here, but apparently don't live there, so one was caged.)
My zoo has a local birds exhibit where they house native birds that they're rehabbing. It makes me weirdly happy when I can't find many birds in there.
If I was a squirrel, I’d walk around outside the cages on my back two legs, smoking a ciggy and going “I’m a people, I’m a people, how do you go, sir? Pleased to have seen you!” at all the caged animals. And laughing in their direction.
Or I’d spring them all. Don’t know how, but I’d spring them.
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Ever think the random local birds that fly around see a rhino and are like WHAT THE FUUUU
Well, kind of.
Monkey forest.
Monkeys in the forest just larkin’.
A forest of monkeys.
Monkeys.
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they’re free with the zoo ticket like toys in a happy meal
I was older than ai should have been when I finally understood they were not officially a part of the zoo.
(The lion was only mildly intrigued, lost interest when the squirrel ran away.)
Then when meal service comes through, he's all like, "You, uh, gonna finish that?"
See for yourself
Or I’d spring them all. Don’t know how, but I’d spring them.
The Zoo Rats, though, they're just ok.
Heron popup in penguin enclosures all over the world... It's kinda their thing now 😉