I went to the zoo with my dad on Sunday =) it was really cool, and I was meaning to blog it with a photo bomb but the photo uploading took so long that it put me off
so
I'm just gonna put my favourites here, and ramble about the rest haha
We got there at opening time, 9.30 (nobody ask am or pm =P) because last time, we arrived at about midday, and all the animals were going blearrrrrgggh *snooze* Even so, the closer it got to midday, the sleepier the animals became.
I was thinking, do any of the animals realise that people love them just because they exist. Anywho
In chronological order, this is where we went:
Kiwis (they were very active and chasing each other around), red pandas
Tigers: they made a new enclosure, and all the tigers (there are three) were walking back and forth in front of the glass.
Birds: they're so pretty =) there were heaps of different species, including some that are becoming popular as pets now e.g. the lovebird, sun conure, white cockatoo, macaw (google the sun conures) but my favourite was the congo African grey parrot haha cos' he/she made really random expressions, which I always missed =.=
Giant tortoise
Lizards: These three, I can't remember their species names, have pro camouflaging skills.
Primates trail: gah it's so hard to take pictures of monkeys. They have so much balance 0_0 just casually walking across the ropes. One of the siamangs was sitting right next to the glass, and he/she (probably he?) was squatting on a thin rope. He's really muscular haha but his arms were wrapped around him like he was cold and he seemed kind of sad. He looked at us when we said "salamat pagi"
Sealions: Two of them were doing laps around the pool, one of them was sunbathing and also looking at the fourth one, which was turning over and over on the spot.. strange.
Meekats: so cute! For some reason, the meerkats were lazing around in the porcupine enclosure as well as their own.. Winnie told me she saw them in the tiger exhibit once.
Pridelands: We went to the giraffes for the feeding encounter, and as always there was a massive queue, because it's the only encounter where you can feed the animals rather than watch the keeper feed them. But the giraffes didn't come (playing "hard to get" lol) so in the end, we were allowed to take a carrot/apple piece and chuck it over the sides to the zebras and ostrich.
By the time we went to the white rhinos, it was almost midday, bleearrrgh time.. haha
The lions and the cheetah were also asleep, so we waited for the elephant encounter, which was cool. The keeper explained how elephants can't sweat so they need to regulate their body temperature with their environment *cue Burma throwing mud and dirt over herself immediately after her bath*
We left to see the orangutan encounter, and then we went home. It was a good day =)
6 comments:
Aww nice pictures :) Haven't been to the zoo in years.
Sun conures are prettyyy, yes I googled them.
I miss the zoo!! Do they still have that huge slide with the egg thing at the top?
i hate birds.... i don't know why. but i hate birds.... never liked the bird exhibits and they're just annoying... and only alright looking hahahahaaa the zoo looks way better than i remember it... it was under construction or something last time i went l0lz
hahahah at the rhino :D thats how I feel most days around that time
the tigers look awesome T_T
also where's your turtle pic?
bernie: yeah they do =D and the giant dragon
winnie: the tortoise was just yawning, didn't think it was worth the upload. (Not that they're boring or anything, just that since they're cold-blooded and we saw them in the morning, they were pretty... motionless lol)
I never had a good look around Auckland Zoo before lol - one day I shall!
wouldnt the tigers eat the lil things? o_O
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