How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too
We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
You can come too, too, too
We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
See the elephant with the long trunk swingin'
Great big ears and a long trunk swingin'
Snuffin' up peanuts with a long trunk swingin'
And we can stay all day!
Great big ears and a long trunk swingin'
Snuffin' up peanuts with a long trunk swingin'
And we can stay all day!
Well we stayed all day and I'm gettin' sleepy
Sittin' in the car gettin' sleep sleep sleepy
Home already gettin' sleep sleep sleepy
'Cause we have stayed all day.
We been to the zoo zoo zoo
So have you you you
You came too too too
We been to the zoo zoo zoo
Sittin' in the car gettin' sleep sleep sleepy
Home already gettin' sleep sleep sleepy
'Cause we have stayed all day.
We been to the zoo zoo zoo
So have you you you
You came too too too
We been to the zoo zoo zoo
(from'Going to the Zoo' by Peter, Paul and Mary
Isn't my husband handsome? :)
And I think I'm just the belle of the ball. :)
We had a fun day. This was Squidge's choice for her birthday treat. The Saturday before her 7th birthday we went to Build a Bear and she made a lovely rabbit, we met Hello Kitty, had some balloon animals made and went to McDonalds for tea (NOT my choice, we tried to persuade Squidge that another eating establishment would be preferable, but she was adamant). The weekend after her birthday she wanted to either go to the beach or Chester Zoo. The weather made the beach an unattractive prospect so the zoo it was.
I'm in two minds about zoos. Chester Zoo has a great conservation scheme, but I still dislike seeing animals in captivity, especially the big cats. Although the lions just spend all day snoozing, the jaguars seemed distressed to me walking round and round and round. There are a multiplicity of arguments for and against zoos. The aim of conservation schemes in zoos is to maintain population of endangered animals and then reintroduce them to the wild at some point, but as Born Free point out this doesn't always work. Tigers, apparently, have never been successfully reintroduced to the wild.
But, for me, I think zoos like Chester Zoo are a useful and important (but imperfect) way to protect certain species. Hopefully, though, a better method of animal conservation will be found and promoted. I do love to see the animals, but always, always, feel a bit uncomfortable.
POINT OF INTEREST: I really don't like monkeys/apes/chimps. I try to like them, but they creep me out. Lock 'em up I say, they're plotting the downfall of mankind!
I jest, I jest.
Pip, pip!
Edit: my husband has just made the point that one of the birds on display at the zoo is extinct in the wild, which is an example of a zoo maintaining the existence of a species. Though, whether the bird happy to be alive in the zoo is perhaps another story.
I'm in two minds about zoos. Chester Zoo has a great conservation scheme, but I still dislike seeing animals in captivity, especially the big cats. Although the lions just spend all day snoozing, the jaguars seemed distressed to me walking round and round and round. There are a multiplicity of arguments for and against zoos. The aim of conservation schemes in zoos is to maintain population of endangered animals and then reintroduce them to the wild at some point, but as Born Free point out this doesn't always work. Tigers, apparently, have never been successfully reintroduced to the wild.
But, for me, I think zoos like Chester Zoo are a useful and important (but imperfect) way to protect certain species. Hopefully, though, a better method of animal conservation will be found and promoted. I do love to see the animals, but always, always, feel a bit uncomfortable.
POINT OF INTEREST: I really don't like monkeys/apes/chimps. I try to like them, but they creep me out. Lock 'em up I say, they're plotting the downfall of mankind!
I jest, I jest.
Pip, pip!
Edit: my husband has just made the point that one of the birds on display at the zoo is extinct in the wild, which is an example of a zoo maintaining the existence of a species. Though, whether the bird happy to be alive in the zoo is perhaps another story.
