new experiences of the day (highlights version)

• 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