Last Friday we all went to the zoo: the local city has a small, but nice, zoo: a couple of elephants, which are always among the more distressing animals to see penned up: some giraffes, just obtained, who are not on show yet: a really nice collection of monkeys and apes, panthers, giant tortoises, birds, etc.
It was a very interesting visit too: the siamang apes were stunning in their vocal displays -- I suspect that they were telling us all "get out of here: this is our turf" or some such message....
The tortoises -- there were three or four of them -- were rather livelier than some that I've seen in the past: especially one rather large male who insisted on climbing on top of another (female?) who objected very loudly. And I suspect that she started rocking or something, because the one on top fell off. And promptly rolled over, and landed on his back. The dozens of people watching this just stood there laughing at his discomfort -- I ran to the snack bar to get them to radio for the zookeeper to help him over again: when I got back about five minutes later everyone was still there just watching and laughing: it appears that LOML and I were the only ones who thought that it was worth trying to summon some help! We were, and are, quite disgusted with that attitude!
Pictures to follow when I sort some out.
Yours, overturning the odds,
N.
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