Zoo Skooled!

Giraffe spit is green, and thick! Pretty gross huh? Not nearly as gross as you'd expect really. Yes we got spit on, but it was totally worth it! We started out in a class room with a short lesson about a giraffe's life (and death) on the Savannah. From there we headed over to the Giraffe enclosure in Destination Africa, where we all got to feed carrot sticks to Marty, and Tenga. Marty is the large female giraffe, and she is currently pregnant! Tenga is the father to be. The third giraffe - Kerrie (sp?) - Is being help in a seperate enclosure because she is a good candidate for artificial insemination and they don't want her and Tenga to uh...interfere with these plans... She did poke her head out and managed to get a few carrots too.

This picture show how close we could get to the giraffes. We weren't allowed to go right in with them (apparently the keepers rarely do that even), but there was only a fance seperating us from them. You can see the end of the group just leaving here.

Here is the second female giraffe coming to check things out from her secluded enclosure.

Display set up in the class room...

Marjorie feeding Marty a carrot stick, and getting a good deal of green slobber on her in the process I'm sure.

Some random close up pictures...look how fabulous her eye lashes are. I have no hope of mine ever looking that great no matter what mascara I use!

*Originally posted at: Twisted ramblings from the mouse that runs the brain
Comments:

Looks like you had a blast. The zookeepers at our zoo are awesome. Once when
my niece was about 4 she made a picture for the giraffe and when she showed to
the zoo keeper the lady brought her and my sister to the back where they got to
feed the giraffe carrots. So, I bet it was an awesome day.
March 26 10:41
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Published by: Ev