After my August visit to Melbourne Zoo in August with family, as a senior, I was offered a very good deal to take up an annual membership, and so I did. I've made two subsequent visits, thinking I will see one or two animals and then leave. That is kind of what I did, but still walked far more than I really needed too.
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These are from my most recent visit. The lion was being uncooperative, as were most animals.
I think this is a Taiwanese python.
This style looks familiar.
Sure enough, it is by the wonderful Gillie et Marc.
The great apes were good to see and I listened to commentary by a zoo keeper for a while.
From my previous visit, another sleepy animal, a tiger.
And a rather amusing orangutan. Unfortunately she did not play to the camera. She arrived with a bedsheet draped over her body. You can see it on her arm.
Eating fruit from a bucket. They have to find a bucket with some fruit inside.
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My next visit will be more planned to see animals when they are out to be fed and a zookeeper talk.
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I have often found that zoo animals sleep through my visits.
ReplyDeleteOne of the places on my bucket list is the orangutan sanctuary in Borneo. Not sure that will happen though.
Zoos are cruel and should not exist , no animal should be held against its will in a foreign land.
ReplyDeleteWhen. I was very young I remember the elephant rides we had at Taronga Zoo and now of course they are banned. The innocence of childhood disappeared when I realised I had contributed to the cruelty .
The great ape may not be the most handsome creature in the zoo, but it certainly is clever.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing wrong with walking further than you need to. I haven't been to a zoo in years.
ReplyDeleteAnimals at the zoo always seem less interested in us than we are in them.
ReplyDeleteI love zoos, even knowing that the animals would probably prefer to be wild. On the upside, zoos have improved tremendously over the past 50 years.
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