Little Ones

You know who's really cute? My kids...
Zoë is taking ballet lessons, while Violet is doing "creative dance." It involves very creative things like horsey gallops. Degas, eat your heart out.
Zoë was brave enough to feed the giraffe at the zoo. Barely.
Breakfast with the animals at the Singapore Zoo is pretty great. Well, the breakfast itself is merely adequate, but you do get to see and sometimes touch lots of neat animals. The orang-utans are very forbearing.

Comments

[ozma]

There's nothing like zoos outside the U.S. to get up close and personal with the animals. In Mexico, there are none of those fakey nice habitats for the animals...I never realized that zebras have such bad tartar.

I admit I was a little horrified at the zoo in Mexico even though the photo ops were great. I felt better when I returned a year later and the animals all seemed to be alive and healthy. But not that much better.

[Tiny Hermaphrodite]

The orang-utans are very forbearing.

Just don't call them monkeys.

[Matt]

There's nothing like zoos outside the U.S. to get up close and personal with the animals.

I went to the zoo in Mexico City many years ago but it was so packed with people we could hardly see anything. The worst zoo I've been to was outside the US, in St. Petersburg- a horrible animal prison of a zoo, w/ all black-top, cement, and iron "habitats", small, and the Russian equivalent of white trash throwing rocks and trash at them. Extremely depressing. It might be better now as they were scolded by the world zoo organization. The Bali one looks great, though. You should share a durian (SP?) fruit w/ the orangutans. I hear they love it.

[Julian Elson]

Giraffes always make me feel envious with regard to their eyelashes.