Zoo Stories

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Yesterday at the zoo I was honored to bear witness to two cougars brawling like motherfuckers for 20 minutes. It was almost boxing-like, they'd separate after some scrapping, walk away, meet back up and go at it again. Also saw a male mandril mount a female in front of a group of children, leading to the parents trying unsuccessfully to usher the kids away.

 

We don't share our zoo stories enough. Or at all for that matter.

[King Kamala 0]

There's a home video of my family at some lame ass zoo in South Carolina from way back in the day and my brother (About 9 or 10 at the time) is filming the duck pond and the male duck mounts the female duck and starts humping it and says "There's a duck, trying to jump over another duck." Second best home video ever behind the one where my uncle sat on my then infant cousin at Christmas.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I was pretty pissed because the elephants were off display and the bears were hibernating though I really should have figured that one out.

 

The Toronto Zoo needs a better ape/monkey selection. No chimps is my biggest gripe.

[Mik 0]

The one time I made it to the San Diego zoo was when the Panda was in heat, which apparently only happens once a year. That was pretty neat, but I wasn't around the 1 hour a day or so that they let the male in.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Have you ever been to the Monteray Bay Aquarium? That place is sweet.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Ft. Wayne has a pretty nice zoo. No elephants, but they do have giraffes, and some badass tigers.

 

I get a year pass to the zoo every season, and run through the rainforest exhibit in the mornings. It has a boardwalk thing that runs through the forest surrounding the zoo. I always look for the tigers at one spot. One morning, I didn't see him until I was right up along the side of their fence. That fucker would've had me if he was loose. Awesome cat.

[Mik 0]

I've never been the Monteray Bay Aquarium. I've been to them in Baltimore and Sydney. The problem I have with aquariums is that there isn't really enough to distinguish one from the other. Nearly every zoo I have been to has been unique in some way, but I can't say the same about aquariums.

[Nighthawk 0]

As little of a fuck as I give about almost anything, you may be surprised to hear that I hold something of a concern for zoo's treatment of animals. Not an outright moral objection, like I have to the circus, but a concern. I prefer more of a wildlife preserve type environment.

 

San Diego had a pretty kick ass zoo. I've spent the day there almost ten times and still haven't seen it all. LA is a decent smaller zoo. I also like how the old zoo there was just abandoned and you can go screw around in the cages and what not.

 

Considering my concern for the treatment of animals, I was pretty stoked when those tigers killed those guys at the SF zoo. I've actually never been there. Friend of mine takes her little brothers there every week. They would have been there the day the tigers escaped if not for the holiday.

[Ravenbomb 0]

In grade 5 we went on a field trip to the zoo and while we were there the Zebras were fucking.

[Red Baron 0]

I remember a field trip to African Lion Safari in grade four and one monkey threw poo at another monkey.

[Darthtiki 0]

A year or so ago I had to spend 3 hours watching Chimps @ the Sacramento (hellhole) zoo for an anthropology class. I got to see lots of fighting and some fucking. Hilarity ensued, especially all the tards who told their kids look at the monkeys.

[Nighthawk 0]

I don't understand the big deal with animals fucking. Animals fuck, it's what they do, like that Bloodhound Gang song. Any kid with a dog knows that.

[Red Baron 0]

But an animal flinging poo at another is quite hilarious.

[Nighthawk 0]

That I'll agree with. Most domestic animals, while they may eat shit, lack the opposable digits to fling it.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Not really a zoo, but last summer we were out in Las Vegas for my best friend's wedding. We were at one of the casinos (I can't remember which one it is), and they have a couple live white tigers on display. I don't remember this (yeah, we'd been drinking pretty much the whole day, leading up to the wedding in the evening), but apparently I asked very loudly, "Which of these is the one that mauled that guy?"

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I don't understand the big deal with animals fucking. Animals fuck, it's what they do, like that Bloodhound Gang song. Any kid with a dog knows that.

 

It's not the fucking itself, more so that it's being done by animals you don't see on a regular basis. Like mandrils. I have no clue the next time I'm gonna see two of those things gettin' it on.

 

[NoCalMike 0]

A couple years ago I was at the Orangutan exhibit, and the male noticed someone in the crowd holding a red plastic ball(the kind in the jumphouses at mcdonalds playgrounds) so it walked to the edge of it's grassy area(right before there is the big cement drop so they can't escape) and reaches out his arm towards the red ball, sort of asking for it......so the kid looks around sees no staff around and throws it to him....so ar first the Orangutan thinks it is food and tries to eat it and he chews a big hole into the side of it.....he quickly figures out it isn't food, so the smart fucker takes the ball to his waterfall area, and fills it with water and starts using it as a cup......after this his kids or maybe girlfriend orangutan sees this and wants to wrestle it away from him, but he wasn't ready to give it up quite yet....once he got done drinking water, he gave it up to his kids.

[Twisted Intestine 0]

I was pretty pissed because the elephants were off display and the bears were hibernating though I really should have figured that one out.

 

The Toronto Zoo needs a better ape/monkey selection. No chimps is my biggest gripe.

 

I've never been to the Toronto Zoo (Only moved to Toronto in September), and was thinking of going. Is it worth it, or am I better off waiting until summer?

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Wait until summer, especially as the AustralAsia building is closed and under construction until around April for roof repairs. Also, go on a weekday during the summer as weekends are fucking mobbed.

[treble 0]

I went to an aquarium in the summer. Highlight was seeing a seal take a shit.

[Darthtiki 0]

I saw a blue whale take a shit once

[Nighthawk 0]

Dude, animals taking a shit at the zoo begins and ends with hippos.

[treble 0]

It was all in the timing. I looked over just in time to see it roll over and saw a puff of brown water.

[Turbo Lion 0]

I work at a Zoo (in SC, oddly enough as one was mentioned earlier). I haven't been there long enough yet to have a cool story. Though the lions eye me with delicious intent sometimes when I walk by their area.

[Nighthawk 0]

What do you do at the zoo?

[Turbo Lion 0]

Lowest rung on the ladder stuff. Working with guests and other stuff nobody else wants to do.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Lowest rung on the ladder stuff. Working with guests and other stuff nobody else wants to do.

 

Since the last four or five posts have centred around various animal shit(hell, probably 4/10 of the posts so far - Tony Gwynn can't touch that), convince me helping guests is the lowest rung on the ladder.

 

As indifferent as I am to animals, I'm enjoying this thread.

 

I went to the Erie Zoo as a kid one summer. Was clearly bored until a camel (or maybe a llama) sneezed on my brother. Also went to Zoo Boo that fall. I don't remember what happened at it, but Joe Carter's homerun was that night also.

 

For reasons similar to Milky's, I'm a little ashamed about how many times I went to Gatorland or similar places during my five trips to Florida in my life. Baron can confirm that, as the subject of animals on show and the correlation to Steve Irwin's death came up during a golf tournament we played in this past spring. I would have had no idea, until I found out more researching this thread. Maybe I'm just pissed because GatorLand never got back to me to answer the question.

 

Hey - two baseball references and my lifetime's alligator history; what a post!

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Dude, animals taking a shit at the zoo begins and ends with hippos.

 

The tail flipping it around is what makes it.

[Turbo Lion 0]

Lowest rung on the ladder stuff. Working with guests and other stuff nobody else wants to do.

 

Since the last four or five posts have centred around various animal shit(hell, probably 4/10 of the posts so far - Tony Gwynn can't touch that), convince me helping guests is the lowest rung on the ladder.

 

As indifferent as I am to animals, I'm enjoying this thread.

 

I went to the Erie Zoo as a kid one summer. Was clearly bored until a camel (or maybe a llama) sneezed on my brother. Also went to Zoo Boo that fall. I don't remember what happened at it, but Joe Carter's homerun was that night also.

 

For reasons similar to Milky's, I'm a little ashamed about how many times I went to Gatorland or similar places during my five trips to Florida in my life. Baron can confirm that, as the subject of animals on show and the correlation to Steve Irwin's death came up during a golf tournament we played in this past spring. I would have had no idea, until I found out more researching this thread. Maybe I'm just pissed because GatorLand never got back to me to answer the question.

 

Hey - two baseball references and my lifetime's alligator history; what a post!

 

Insofar as the respect level of the entire Zoo staff, we're at the bottom. Divers and land Zookeepers are considered to be higher in the system and more important - and they kind of operate in cliques even, as they don't seem to talk to us and we don't talk to them much.

 

I would say that the Divers that vacuum fish crap out of the gravel in the big Indo-Pacific and other tanks would have a "worse" job, but they're in the water with relatively rare animals that they love and care for. So on a weird level, they enjoy vacuuming shit and scrubbing the tanks. Part of my job is being the outside "buddy", monitoring the dives in case something goes wrong so I can alert other dive staff to make a save.

 

But we work the beast known as "The Asshole". They are many, they are stupid, and we encounter way more of them than the Zookeepers encounter something they don't like. We get the worst animal of all. Consumers.

 

[AboveAverage484 0]

This thread has been surprisingly entertaining.

 

I thoroughly enjoy going to the zoo, though I haven't been since a field trip in seventh grade. A guidance counselor at my school did tell a story about a dude that used to go to school with me until he dropped out. Anyways, he ended up with a job at the zoo but got fired for lighting it up with some gibbons. Apparently he thought it would be funny, which I guess it kind of is but the counselor said one of the gibbons would show up at the same part of the pen everyday waiting on good old J.T. to show up and burn one with him. I've never really questioned the validity of this story, I do, however, have some reservations about whether or not a gibbon would inhale a joint if it was placed in his mouth.