Well, a lot has happened as it has been a while since I last put a post in…yes I know, I’ve been a bit of a slack-arse.
The most exciting things are that it has snowed, we went to the new tropical house at the zoo & yesterday was Valentines day. The snow was a few weekends ago. It came down in huge flakes. Unfortunatally that was because it was too wet & the ground was too warm for it to last long, but hey, it did snow.
The zoo was great. Bluey & I went last Sunday and Erik & Maria joined us later.We went earlier because we tend to take our time a lot more than the others. We hadn’t heard details about the new tropical house at the zoo, so we were very pleasantly surprised to walk through the entrance door to go into a room where ring-tailed lemurs were interacting with zoo visitors. Bluey & I love them (Bluey more so since her Madagascar trip...but hey, you'll just have to read about that in Blueys blog ;-D). They were adourable. I kept thinking the song line “I want to move it, move it… He wants to move it, move it… she wants to move it, move it…we want to….MOVE IT!”
Those of you wondering “What the hell is he going on about?”, watch the movie “Madagascar”, then re-read this & it will all become clear to you as you will have been enlightened. We would come back to them about 4 more times because they were just so cool. I found that carrying the back-pack was not so bad because it provided them a comfortable sitting place and a spot to jump on their way to somewhere else. Later when Erik & Maria were there with us, I felt the backpack was quiet heavy. Later Bluey said I had 6 of them on me at that time. I wish we could have taken a flash photo at that time. Clear photos were not so easy to take either due to the fact that you can take photos only without the flash. When lemurs moved too fast, they became blurry. Also when you have your arm out to take a photo, one may jump on your arm or back & BUMP…blurry photo…LOL.
It was great. We thoroughly loved their interactions. After spending a fair amount of time with our little friends we moved on. The rest of the zoo was well designed with lovely, roomy enclosures. I was a bit upset not to see the king cobra, because he chose not to come out of his hide through a hole in the wall. Not the zoos fault that he was not in a very sociable mood on that day :-). I have no idea how big he is, but looking at the shed scales in the enclosure, it is a pretty good size. One point that did bug me was that they had a enclosure with a nice sized reticulated python in it, however the sign said “Green Anaconda”. I know it may be trivial to some people, but I don’t like people getting false information from somewhere they should be learning more about animals.
However I liked the tropical house set-up in general. I love reptiles and will always be a devoted reptile lover, but I do have to admit…lemur interaction was probably the highlight of this visit.
The most exciting things are that it has snowed, we went to the new tropical house at the zoo & yesterday was Valentines day. The snow was a few weekends ago. It came down in huge flakes. Unfortunatally that was because it was too wet & the ground was too warm for it to last long, but hey, it did snow.
The zoo was great. Bluey & I went last Sunday and Erik & Maria joined us later.We went earlier because we tend to take our time a lot more than the others. We hadn’t heard details about the new tropical house at the zoo, so we were very pleasantly surprised to walk through the entrance door to go into a room where ring-tailed lemurs were interacting with zoo visitors. Bluey & I love them (Bluey more so since her Madagascar trip...but hey, you'll just have to read about that in Blueys blog ;-D). They were adourable. I kept thinking the song line “I want to move it, move it… He wants to move it, move it… she wants to move it, move it…we want to….MOVE IT!”
Those of you wondering “What the hell is he going on about?”, watch the movie “Madagascar”, then re-read this & it will all become clear to you as you will have been enlightened. We would come back to them about 4 more times because they were just so cool. I found that carrying the back-pack was not so bad because it provided them a comfortable sitting place and a spot to jump on their way to somewhere else. Later when Erik & Maria were there with us, I felt the backpack was quiet heavy. Later Bluey said I had 6 of them on me at that time. I wish we could have taken a flash photo at that time. Clear photos were not so easy to take either due to the fact that you can take photos only without the flash. When lemurs moved too fast, they became blurry. Also when you have your arm out to take a photo, one may jump on your arm or back & BUMP…blurry photo…LOL.
It was great. We thoroughly loved their interactions. After spending a fair amount of time with our little friends we moved on. The rest of the zoo was well designed with lovely, roomy enclosures. I was a bit upset not to see the king cobra, because he chose not to come out of his hide through a hole in the wall. Not the zoos fault that he was not in a very sociable mood on that day :-). I have no idea how big he is, but looking at the shed scales in the enclosure, it is a pretty good size. One point that did bug me was that they had a enclosure with a nice sized reticulated python in it, however the sign said “Green Anaconda”. I know it may be trivial to some people, but I don’t like people getting false information from somewhere they should be learning more about animals.
However I liked the tropical house set-up in general. I love reptiles and will always be a devoted reptile lover, but I do have to admit…lemur interaction was probably the highlight of this visit.
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