Talk to the animals..
Still confined to the borders of the UK, it's actually been quite refreshing to do stuff around London.. I'd been wanting to go to the London Zoo for a while now.. I know it's a big debate about whether they are right or wrong, but I love watching animals and I think the educational value is the big bonus of them..
Anyway, enough of the disclaimer..
Last sunday I finally got to go to the zoo.. Thinking that 2 and a half hours would be enough considering that the zoo isn't that big.. of course we were wrong.. we started off with the giraffe's, some funny stripey butt zebra type things, some weird snout nosed pig type things, then onto the small mammals where the various breeds of marmosets kept us entertained for ages with their amazingly humanlike actions.. and they're sooo cute!!
An Inquisitive Marmoset
That led onto the Nocturnal animals enclosure where the highlight were the tiny Australian gliders (like the sugar gliders I was used to from North Qld, but about the size of a mouse!).. there were hundredes of them!!.. There a few different types of sloths too (I always wanted come back as a sloth)..
And then - my favourite animal - the otters!!.. they were a great big family with about 6 kits (baby otters) all running/swimming around showing off for the spectators.. so carefree and oh so cute!
By now we had almost run out of time so we quickly went past the monkeys, tigers and lions en route to the reptile display (Blake's favourite animals) - but unfortunately we were too late.. So we have vowed to go back in the summer to see the rest of the zoo..
Anyway, enough of the disclaimer..
Last sunday I finally got to go to the zoo.. Thinking that 2 and a half hours would be enough considering that the zoo isn't that big.. of course we were wrong.. we started off with the giraffe's, some funny stripey butt zebra type things, some weird snout nosed pig type things, then onto the small mammals where the various breeds of marmosets kept us entertained for ages with their amazingly humanlike actions.. and they're sooo cute!!
An Inquisitive Marmoset
That led onto the Nocturnal animals enclosure where the highlight were the tiny Australian gliders (like the sugar gliders I was used to from North Qld, but about the size of a mouse!).. there were hundredes of them!!.. There a few different types of sloths too (I always wanted come back as a sloth)..
And then - my favourite animal - the otters!!.. they were a great big family with about 6 kits (baby otters) all running/swimming around showing off for the spectators.. so carefree and oh so cute!
By now we had almost run out of time so we quickly went past the monkeys, tigers and lions en route to the reptile display (Blake's favourite animals) - but unfortunately we were too late.. So we have vowed to go back in the summer to see the rest of the zoo..
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