When Did You Last Visit A Zoo?

When it comes to entertainment value, on a scale of one to ten the best zoo on the planet would rate no better than a five for me. The San Diego Zoo is pretty good as zoos go, but it's a zoo nevertheless. I had a LA Zoo family membership and used to take the kids when they were little, but haven't been back to see the animals in at least twenty years. (I went to the LA Zoo's Christmas season nighttime light display a couple of years ago, but since the animals are not part of that event I don't count it in the same category.)

I may take grandkids when they get a bit older, but that would be for their entertainment, not mine.
 

The last time was a lot of years ago outside of Sydney Australia. Koalas have the softest fur I ever touched.

The last one before that was Tampa, where a chimp was mistreating a mouse. The mouse "played possum" until the chimp dropped him, then he took off at a very high speed.

There was the one in Quebec city where there was an enormous Kodiak bear surrounded by signs saying "do not feed the bear". He was sitting there rubbing his tummy wanting us to ignore the signs.
 
I don't know why they feel they have to capture and cage animals, that belong in the wild. For what?
 

CeeCee said:
Maybe next time...I promise. Have a lot going now and none of it is fun. Dr visits, mammogram, etc.

Then heading back to the coast. Grandson graduating from 8th grade. It will be a big deal, he's tops in his grade. Even other grandparents are flying in for this...

Take some pictures though, I'm curious.
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Is this a dating forum?
 
Last month I went to a fairly new place near Wichita called Tangynika Wildlife park. It's a bit pricier than a lot of zoos but I know feeding all those animals has to be expensive. My granddaughter loves giraffes and you can feed some of the animals. We fed giraffes, kangaroos, some kind of parrots, tortoises, llamas, baby hippos, lemurs. I couldn't afford to go there very often but we had a great time. They had some other unusual animals that we couldn't feed like an albino crocodile, honey badgers, several birds from Austrailia, a sloth (that recently had a baby).
 
I took some of my grandkids last fall. We have a decent zoo here in Nashville, and we all had a blast!! I'm Australian by birth, so being able to hang with the kangaroos (they have a petting area and there are 'roos and goats that the kids can pet and brush) was a special treat for them. :D
 
Olive said:
I don't know why they feel they have to capture and cage animals, that belong in the wild. For what?
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I would not care to meet a Kodiak bear in the wild.
I have never seen a Flamingo in the wild, not even in the Everglades.
 
It has been about 10 years since I visited the Jacksonville, FL Zoo. I loved the Gorilla and Monkeys . Also fascinated by the Jaguar and the Cougar. Sadly the Cougar died about 2 years later.
 

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