The Zoo

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What better place to spend your birthday than the zoo? So Ellie and I spent Friday at the zoo, and before anyone thinks Iím a looser for going to the zoo then let me say this. Youíre wrong. And youíre a looser. And you smell. The zoo was awesome, with thousands of animals from all over the world it was impossible to take in how awesome it was.

The Marmosets (possible Golden Marmosets) win on the cute level, but by far the best ever animal were the squirrel monkeys. Because it was so cold they all wanted to sit on the heater, and because the heater actually wasnít that hot they kept on jumping on each other and throwing the other off. It was a bit like those kung fu movies where a huge fight breaks out and some ninja has to fend off a thousand others and everytime one gets knocked down, or off a cliff, or through a wall the others jump in, except they were all kick-ass ninjas. Occasionally the fight would go outside and theyíd fight over wobbling hanging beams and hoops.

The amazing swimming penguins, weird dog/cat fossi creature, gibbons and white tiger were also highlights, with their crazy random antics. The lions, rhinos and sea lions werenít so great, but only because you have such high expectations of them that when they just sat around and did nothing you couldnít but help be disappointed. All over though, pretty much no animal wasnít fascinating in some way.

That in fact, was itís only downfall. Because youíre seeing so many animals that are incredibly amazing, you lose the impact of how amazing they are. So seeing the orang-utans (which were the first animals we saw) was mind blowing and we stared at them for ages even though they werenít doing anything, by the time we saw the giraffes it was kinda like ëokay, so theyíre giraffesí. Not that the giraffes werenít mind blowingly amazing, itís just that our minds were no longer in a state to be mind blown.

Iím sure pictures will follow, as will the story of the last remaining zeedonk (not to be missed) but for now I leave you with this photo.
killed by her mate

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(t) Ellie

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Mark wrote this at 16:03, Sat, 20/11/04, Link
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Sheepie

I was so sure it was called a zonkey.

Written by Sheepie at 20:07, Mon, 22/11/04

Benjamin

I was in Lyon in france in the summer, and they had a zoo in a park! And it was all free. Awesome stuff. PS send me the phone already

Written by Benjamin at 03:49, Tue, 23/11/04

Sparticus

It's on it's way. Soon. I'm sure. When I find some parcel tape or something.

Written by Sparticus at 09:46, Tue, 23/11/04

Benjamin

Well hurry up cos I'm only here for another 10 days!

*prepares himself for yet more "slacker" insults*

Written by Benjamin at 16:35, Tue, 23/11/04

Sparticus

Enough about the phone. Any future comments here must relate to this hilarious zoo related post. The end.

Written by Sparticus at 17:34, Tue, 23/11/04

Mr.Moony

I bet its not as good as the Singapore Zoo. They had polar bears there! Playing with a traffic cone!!!

Written by Mr.Moony at 11:10, Wed, 24/11/04

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