Im Gone Lick Your...

You've got to love the zoo, no matter how old you are spending a day looking at animals laze around is some what entertaining. So after working a full day we were granted a rest day and decided to investigate Wellington Zoo. Getting the bus there it looked as if we had chosen the perfect day. The weather was gray to keep it sweet and the bus ride up was shared with a scattering of OAPs and a young mum taking the very young baby for a nice day at the zoo. However when we arrived there was a feeling that something was about to go very wrong. Making our way to a Tue (some bird) x-ray we noticed a lot of children of a certain age running around. It seemed a bit strange to have so many children and so few parents looking after them. Then it dawned on us, there were family's', it was the dreaded school trip. But not just one THREE, it was horrible, so we went and looked at Meerkats been fed to cheer us up, this worked, in my view and Daveys Meerkats beat all, even mass hordes of school children. However at the chimpanzee feeding we were reminded of just why school trips where so horrible when we were treated to a rendition a baby 'sung' (i use the term loosely) over the loud speaker by a tone death 9yr old boy then not to be out done one of his fellow class mates. I don't know who we got out of there alive. But we did. So after that ordeal we revived our spirits by feeding the giraffes. Don't worry it wasn't our tuna sandwiches (we had chips for lunch anyway) it was a pile of leave handed us to by one of the zoo staff at the feeding time. And after having my hand licked by one massive tong it was off to meet our first kiwis, of the flying kind. In a dark underground room we got to see some live kiwis, hold a dead one that was suspiciously warm and watch a one legged one been fed. After that it was time for our lunch and then off to see the tigers, not much to say about that looked tiger liked 4 legs, stripes and walked around a bit. But we did managed to somehow get to stroke a day old Chick while talking to the zoo keeper about native birds. After that it off to see the rather groovy, the too cool for school, sun bears be fed grass. There bears why you feeding the grass you crazy kiwis no wonder they don't come out to be fed. but don't worry the grass is for them to look for bugs to stimulate them and there given a proper meal each day. from what i could see though they'd had enough stimulating, not like the lions however. When we were over at that take they were given a bag to sniff which they seemed to really enjoy maybe that's the result of been fed twice a week (in summer) to mimic real life conditions, cats gone crazy on nip. Next it was off to see the cotton topped monkeys, but not before the giraffes showed us a sight no one wants to see. So I'm going to share it with you. Female giraffe had been at the bubbly again and had to relive herself, as one dose, so male giraffe decides 'I'm gone lick your piss' and proceeds to get himself a little afternoon snifter. Nice and to think i fed you guys earlier. Anyway i digress back to the monkeys, and rather cool ones at that the litter chaps were quite the sight to watch excitably running about the place. So we stayed and watched them scamper about the place as the zoo staff scamper around trying to catch a duck. This was all so much excitement we nearly forgot to see the pelican feeding time. But lucky it was next door to the monkeys and we managed to see the crazy pelican (those guys have massive eyes) get its fill of fish and do what i like to think of as the happy dance. But he might have just had a serious medical problem, whose to say. Anyway that was enough zoo action for the day and we made our way back into the city timing the bus to perfection then getting the train around the bay to our home away from home in Petone to recount our story's of kinky giraffes.