zooooooo

[kaberett]

Today has been for Errands, including the errand of Getting A Full CO₂ Canister, which requires driving most of the way to Whipsnade Zoo on a weekday.

So we did that (via returning a library book, and dropping things off at a charity shop, and buying vitamins, and stopping at the pharmacy, and visiting the tip where I maybe slightly acquired another cookbook) and then, obviously, visited The Zoo.

Highlights included:

• BABY ELEPHANT. POKING HER LITTLE NOSE OUT BETWEEN THE BARS TO PICK UP THE HAY THE BIG ELEPHANTS HAD DROPPED ON THE FLOOR.
• also she yelled. ... at the forklift.
• also we watched a Big Elephant roll a log ponderously across the enclosure so they could put their feets on it so as to reach the suspended haynet with their face
• baby langur!!!
• Saw The Pygmy Hippo
• saw the CHEETAHS who are not normally quite that obliging
• goldfinches
• PENGUINS WITH EGGS
• flamingoes doing a BIZARRE vibratey thing with their faces
• babirusa, which have ridiculous fancy tusks
• Visayan warty pigs gruntling away to themselves

... and then we came home and played more Filament. Good day.

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[rugessnome]

ELEPHANT! 🐘 baby elephant!

I don't believe I posted about returning to the zoo after the first visit this year, but I tried and failed to see our elephants. I did succeed at seeing our hippos (3 of 4, I think including Fritz but idk whether Fiona (now more or less an adult) was there) and even saw them eating a lettuce snack.

(also caught a pair of lions, ostriches, one other big cat, a condor, a mongoose, and um... the gorillas. And city squirrels with almost no fear of people who are prone to leaping explosively out of trashbins if startled)

...I was actually thinking of going again this week but didn't get around to it the one day I both might have felt up to it and was free.