new experiences of the day (highlights version)

[kaberett]

• mucked out the interior portion of a greater one-horned rhino's enclosure
• posted cabbage into a greater one-horned rhino including Stroking Its Nose and Discovering Its Upper Lip (which is prehensile in a way that is very similar to elephants' much longer trunk)
• pretended to be a tree for giraffes, including a BABY GIRAFFE, whose snoot was SO SOFT (as also was the nose of at least one adult giraffe) -- I did not touch these intentionally but contact was made in passing (and I had never previously observed how deliberate and intentional giraffes are about how they eat!)
• TWO DIFFERENT SPECIES OF PENGUIN EGGS
• holding a Very Endangered Hornbill
• ... going to sleep in a zoo

Comments

[redsixwing]

OH MY

prehensile lips! very fuzzy snoots! HOLDING HORNBILL.

I am delighted just to read about it.

[gingicat]

That sounds AMAZING.

[fyreharper]

eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

[rugessnome]

o! this sounds DELIGHTFUL. baby giraffe! rhinos eating cabbage!

(I have slept at a zoo myself, a couple times actually, since I was lucky enough to be reasonably close to the Cincinnati Zoo (people may know about their hippo Fiona) for field trips, but there wasn't a lot of behind the scenes experiences in terms of animal interaction on the school trip.)

[forests_of_fire]

howwww?? how did you get to do these things?? I AM DYING OF JEALOUSY.

[emperor]

That sounds very exciting indeed :)

[vass]

*______* <33333

[lunabee34]

That sounds amazing!

I'm basking in the vicarious joy.

[swaldman]

😮

[cesy]

Amazing!

[divulge]

Sounds amazing! <3

[sfred]

Wow! Unicorns!