We saw ninja gibbons
and pygmy hippos
I said I thought the pygmy hippos looked like Giant Gnids with legs and my friend thought I said giant neds with legs.
We saw wOl
and the maned wolves which were moving so fast all I got were photos of their rear ends. They look a bit like foxes would if they were teenagers in the 70s, and they stink.
What's black and white and eats like a horse?
Kitty wants to play.
It's the same animal - looks so black in the photo above but you can see the pattern underneath
Jaguar bollocks
Ring-tailed lemurs
We got there just in time for the Penguin Parade but I didn't get any photos of it, and only 7 were out for a walk today. Edinburgh Zoo has Penguin Parade every day - the keepers let the penguins come out for a walk around a grassy area outside their enclosure, just as many as want to come. It's great. I often wonder what would happen if the keepers just let them off without herding them back into their enclosure. Would they all just get on a bus and go into town? The penguins are my favourite. You could take me to the zoo at opening time and stick me in front of the penguin enclosure, and I'd still be there at closing time. They fascinate me, even when they're just standing looking at the wall.
It's hard to take underwater pictures without being reflected in the glass.
The penguins have established good breeding colonies so the zoo gives them concrete nests, and stones for them to give to each other as part of their courtship.
A bit scruffy - still moulting their winter feathers
A sea eagle
A black stork
We also heard a little boy talking about the Italian tigers (they were actually Sumatran
) and in the general conversation we established that penguins are birds, the Proclaimers don't lay eggs, and that monkey we saw was scratching, not wanking.
