Yesterday, Shawn and I were sitting around eating breakfast trying to figure out how to spend our day together when I got the brilliant idea: Let's go to the zoo! So then we had to decide which zoo to go to. We live pretty close to the Brookfield Zoo, and I haven't been there for a REALLY long time, so that is what we decided to to. We had a blast! It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day with no rain and few clouds. It turned out to be a great day!
There were two baby camels! One of the babies was born this past March and one just a few weeks ago in April! They were so cute playing together. This one was trying to socialize with daddy...how sweet!
There were about 5 giraffes in this enclosure. This one was moving all over and he kept doing really funny looking things, but every time I would try to get a picture he would stop! I was getting so annoyed! I had never seen a giraffe try to bend down to get something off the ground and it is hilarious! I guess there knees must not bend like ours do cause he had his legs spread so wide...It was really cute, but no picture :(
There were two big elephants that I could see. They are so huge! The other elephant didn't have any tusks, but he was off to the side eating hay or something off the ground. It was so neat to stand there and watch him eat using his trunk. An elephant's trunk is truly amazing! They are able to use their trunks to do some things that really seem to require a lot of fine motor like skills! I was basically in awe. There was a display that has a long tube that is meant to demonstrate how heavy an elephant's trunk is...I couldn't believe it! I never figured how heavy it would be!
Oh...the Monkey house! I could have spent all day in their! The Primate exhibit was divided into several areas based on the Continent. Each area had primates that are indigenous to those areas. This little monkey was looking right at us and he was only about 5 feet away from our heads! It was a really open exhibit too with birds flying right over our heads. In each area all the different types of primates were able to interact with each other, although they didn't really seem to. Each different specie seemed to only play with each other. There were some other types of animals mixed in as well. In one of the areas there was a pygmy hippo swimming while a medium sized monkey was sitting on a branch right over the water! That was really neat! The Gorilla exhibit was at the end, but it was worth it! There were a lot of gorillas! There was one that was much smaller than the others so it must have been a juvenile...but I'm not sure of the age at all. I don't know if it was a boy or a girl, but it was really playful! He was running all over the trees trying to get the other gorillas to play with him...but they weren't really interested! Most of the males were just lounging around, but they looked really comfy! It was a lot of fun to watch them all play!
Of course, Shawn wanted to make sure that we saw the aquatic animals...so we went to the dolphin show as well as the new exhibit called Stingray Bay. The dolphin show was really great, as they usually are. There were 5 dolphins in the family, the mother with 4 of her children. Dolphins are so smart! Stingray Bay was really neat too...it was basically a small pond that had two different types of stingrays you could touch as well as horseshoe crabs and two types of small sharks. The sharks were hiding near the waterfall though were you couldn't reach them, so we weren't able to touch those :( We did get to touch the stingrays though, and that was really cool! They are really soft and the smaller ones were really friendly! It was almost like some of them liked to be petted. They would come right to you and there was one that kinda stopped when I started touching it and stayed there for a minute. That was pretty cool! It would have been really freaking cool to touch a shark, but oh well. Maybe some other time! The exhibit with the penguins was pretty small, but you were able to get really close to the penguins and it was open so there was a huge, thick piece of glass between you and the penguins. That was really neat. The could swim up really close to you...obviously it was far enough a way that you couldn't touch them, but still it was cool!
We made sure to see the big cats and the bears as well, but they were mostly just laying around being lazy! Most of them were sleeping...some were sleeping where we could see them, but most were hiding out of view :( We could at least see all the big cats, but the bears were almost all hiding away! Anyway, our trip to the zoo was wonderful and we had a great day! Just one more picture of Shawn that I absolutely love!
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