Friday
October 23, 2015
It
was nice to visit my Happy Place on Friday for a change. Smaller
crowds meant a quiet and peaceful walk-around. It was cool
and damp this morning. When the weather gets cool, an Open
Door policy often goes into effect, allowing the animals to
come and go as they please. This morning, many of them went
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*mumble,
mumble crunch, crunch* 'Great food you have here, toots'
said the new Siamang chomping away on fresh broccoli to his
ladyfriend. I haven't heard the pair of them sing together
yet. |
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Xerxes
was having a huge yawn when I arrived. What a large (and clean)
mouth he has. |
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'Aaaaah
- nothing like a big ol' yawn to get the blood flowing to the head.' |
Xerxes
swaggered right up to the viewing window and gave us all the
once-over. Then he turned around and sprayed the glass! Everyone
laughed. The cubs never showed their faces while I was there.
Perhaps they were embarrassed. |
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Mr
and Mrs. Worrywart: 'Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! Do you think
that ceiling is going to fall on us?We'll all be killed. Oh
no! What's a monkey to do?' |
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Here's
Dave, looking a little lost now that his pal Misawa has gone
to live in Texas. It's almost as if he keeps looking for Misawa. |
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'Don't
worry,' says Auntie. 'We're keeping an eye on him and making
sure he doesn't get lonely. |
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'So
are we.' says one of the Zebras. 'We're always up for a good game
of Tag.' |
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At
first I had no idea that the Sloth was in the exhibit. I
haven't seen him for ages. I saw the green leaf bobbing
up and down, looked more closely and there he was. |
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I
wonder what mischief Uzumma will get up to today. She looks very
mischievous. |
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Since
Nina died, 47-year old Pete in the other gorilla exhibit has
a new companion - Amanda who is 45 and also Uzumma's mother.
So far they are keeping their distance. |
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Just
as I arrived at the Ring-tailed Lemurs the keeper announced
that he was going to give them a second breakfast as they
were huddled up and looking cold. One of the Lemurs was very
excited by this news. ''Wow! You mean it? Hey Guys - more
food! Let the fun begin!' |
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'Here!
Here!' Toss it this way, pal!' |
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The
keeper also put little piles of veggies around and sprayed
the bark of trees with apple juice for the Lemurs to lick
off. 'It keeps them out here a little bit longer.' explained
the keeper. |
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'Don't
bother me - I'm busy. This apple juice tastes good but I wish
he'd warmed it up a bit first.' |
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'Hey
guys! Check it out! He says it's a 'Carrot Stick'. What's
a carrot? What a great color. I wonder if it tastes as good
as it looks? |
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'Hmmmmm.
Kinda cold, and hard on the ol' choppers but pretty good,
all in all.' |
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Yikes,
everyone's heading back inside now. Wait for us! We're coming
too. |
And
that was it for my trip too. It was another good visit.
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