ZOO.

[kaberett]

This time ZSL Whipsnade. Highlights, quickly, before I forget any more of them:

• WOOLLY PIGS
  
• we still didn't see any pygmy hippos, but these information boards used the verb "trundle" to describe their locomotion on land and I was delighted
  
• Grevy's zebra have white bellies!!! (see also wikipedia)
  
• baby flamingoes are grey they don't! know how! to be pink yet!
  
• the penguin enclosure is particularly amazing (astonishing views) AND the two types of penguin are DIFFERENTLY SHIT and it is GREAT. (Rockhoppers use their beaks to pull themselves up the banks, and also flop into the water face first. The Black-footed penguins instead sort of... wabble.)
  
• excellent free-range wallabies & Chinese water deer
  
• very much enjoyed the ridiculous pelicans also

(Adam who else was especially good?)

Comments

[kaberett]

oh!!! the RED PANDAS who were TALL in a TREE and also the wolverine trotting merrily about with a toy of some ilk in its mouth! they too were Excellent Friends.

[davidgillon]

free-range wallabies

This made me smile :)

[cesy]

Hooray!

[hunningham]

Woolly pig! I did not know that woolly pigs were a thing but am happier for knowing it.

[lunabee34]

Yay animals!

It's a zoo show, but real life. LOL

[highlyeccentric]

!! I want to go hang out with wallabies! I miss marsupials.

[me_and]

I also enjoyed the full-size hippos! And the many largely-unidentified animals that yelled while we had our afternoon tea...

[me_and]

(ZOO)

[el_staplador]

This is such a delightful post <3

[judiff]

Did you like sing the "I go to the Zoo" song from CXG while you were there?

[kaberett]

No, but we played it when we got back!