We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo…how about you? When I saw that there was a zoo in Trivandrum I just could not resist!
It’s a big leafy zoo, with shaded paths and lots of information about each animal. It doesn’t seem as modern looking as some of the zoos back home, but it was interesting to see different kinds of animals! I enjoyed looking at the bears and the wildlife native to India. My new favourite animal has to be the ‘Cinerous Vulture’. It is the largest flying bird, with a wingspan of 3 meters and is often called the ‘Pilots Nightmare’ because it flies at a height of 32,000 feet. It has a funny bald head and scraggly feathers.
Whilst walking around the zoo, I heard a kerfuffle above and looked up to see which bird was causing this noise, only to find out that there are bats – big bats – in the trees above. And one of them pooped!
I also looked in at the Natural History Museum, which is smaller than it sounds. It’s got a series of rooms with stuffed animals and skeletons, showing various different animals and their growth patterns and interesting things about them. It was a little strange to walk around and remember that these were once living, breathing animals. At one point there was a room of foetus’s (or is it foeti?!) and in it a hippo baby that had been in the womb for five months. It looked like a clay model in a jar of goo…poor little hippo!
Randomly I noticed some building work going on. Two men stood plastering the building next to where I was, about three floors up, barefoot and in skirts, on a ledge that can’t be more than about 12 inches. I was scared for them!
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