Haha!! I did. Thursday October 4, there was a professional practice lecture and I DIDN’T GO because I wanted to go to the zoo. So I DID. And it was GREAT. I went with Zeke and Ryan and we had fun. Look! I took lots of pictures!
Here’s the pink highway. Apparently it’s made out of corn, because Iowa has so much corn. Pink corn.
They had lots of big, pretty snakes!
They also had some rare solid brass lizards! Those things are pretty rare in nature, but once you capture one, you’ll have it pretty much forever, because they are pretty slow-moving. Me and Zeke both got to pet one!
These are Colorado River toads! Apparently some scandalous people get the toads real pissed off until they secrete their poison, then then dry it out and snort it up their nose and go on whacky trips! That’s just what I’ve heard. I think it sounds scandalous. For toads AND brains.
Here’s a spotted rattlesnake…
… and a really cool black and white viper! He was ALERT.
This is a FOSSA. It is like a cat/weasel/dog creature and I paralyzed it with my camera flash. Little Known Fact: This is Alberto Veronica’s favorite animal.
These were some sleepy gators. I thought it was funny and sad that they all had their eyes closed. I don’t know why sad, though. I close MY eyes when I sleep.
This was a good sign on the “Little Blue Penguin” exhibit. The penguins were only about a foot tall, and they were all outside, with a little pool to swim around in. This crazy lady in a wheelchair rolled up and asked the girl who was feeding them if they were sick and if they preferred the “arctic cold.” The zookeeper told her they were not sick and that they did not prefer the “arctic cold.”
Everywhere we go. Land squids. (Or Octopi.)
This is a beautiful coral…
… AND THESE ARE SOME SEXY SHRIMP. Yes. Sexy Shrimp. Look at ‘em. Shakin’ their asses.
This is a mantis shrimp. The little yellow guy with his buggy eyes buggin’ out at me. He likes to punch people in their buttcracks. He also likes to punch holes in rocks, clams, snails and crabs. ‘Cause it’s fun. Not ’cause he has to.
Here are some more beautiful corals…
This one’s called “upside-down jellyfish.” I guess because that’s what it looks like. (Actually, I guess that’s what it IS. OOPS.)
This is called a fuckin’ huge clam, because it’s fuckin’ huge. Seriously. It was like two feet across.
Here are some more beautiful corals and a couple of little cardinal fish. Awww! So CUTE.
These are called “Leafy Sea-dragons!” They are like sea-horses, but WAY fancier.
This is a big grouper. He will get much bigger. His main diet as an adult will include smaller fish, crabs, and divers!
That’s a monkey.
These are tapirs! They look kind of like pigs/hippos/horses/rhinoceroses.
THIS is a big, floppy soft-shelled turtle! It’s so floppy-looking! I don’t like the word floppy. :( But I like this floppy turtle!
This is some kind of lemur. I liked his eyes. He looks like a smart guy.
These are pygmy hippos! Exactly as mean and dumb and pointless as regular-sized hippos, but a fraction of the size! Awww!
Here are some beautiful macaws. Their bright colors make me HAPPY.
This is an ARAPAIMA! As I’m told, the arapaima is the largest freshwater fish in the world (by length)! The zoo had about 6-8 of them in a giant pool with around a dozen HUGE pacu and a couple of monster red-tailed catfish. It was amazing. The arapaima were all around six or eight feet long.
Me and Zeke saw trees like this when we were in Costa Rica! This tree, however, was WAY more awesome, because it was actually made out of CONCRETE. AMAZAZING! (This picture actually looks like it could have come directly from Costa Rica. So. Good job, Omaha Zoo!)
These lions were sleepy!
So cute and sleepy!
This bear was so funny! He was SO bad at climbing his tree! Which is good, because the tree’s branches came REALLY close to the edge of his enclosure.
If you’re gonna be a bear, though…
… be a GRIZZLY BEAR!
Tigers. The tigers were cool. The had several. They had a little lady tiger who only had THREE LEGS, but, she had cubs, so it was OK. They also had a HUGE male Siberian tiger. Seriously. I cannot communicate how large this animal was. Its head was probably three or four times the size of my head. It probably stood about 4 feet tall, if not taller. It was probably 15 feet long, if you stretched its tail out. Massive.
This is not the massive tiger, but it was much more photogenic!
And THEN there was this creepy orangutan and her creepy orangutan baby. I like looking at the apes but they always make me sad/weirded out.
So. Anyway. The zoo was awesome. Not as awesome as the Shedd Aquarium, which I need to go back to now that I have a digital camera. But, it was totally worth skipping a professional practice lecture for, although I heard from Ruby that it was a pretty good/valuable lecture.
-SARA.
It was not a valuable lecture and you did good in skipping. Good job!! Also, thank you for remembering what my favorite animal is. Also I think its crazy im the only one who has responded to your controlled insanity, and from henceforth i think the Giant clams should be called Clamasaurous. Star gazer out!
Hey Sara, Mo here. Which zoo was this. It looks a bit like the Omaha zoo. If so, a KCAI grad did all the tiles with the information about the various animals. They also have three-dimensional maps of the zoo made by KCAI Ceramics grad Tim Barry. Your pictures are amazing! – Mo
Hey Mo! It was, in fact, the Omaha Zoo! I forgot all about the tiles and the 3-d maps! You told Zeke and I about that one time. I didn’t really take note of any of the tiles, but I do remember being pretty impressed by a big 3-d map…
I guess I will have to go back and check it out! Darn!
-Sara!
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