We went to the Wildlife Park. My friend Liv-Astrid was there, and we straight away went to see the red pandas. They were really, really cute! Katie and Tilly and Katie’s mum said that when they saw them they were asleep, but now they were crawling around a lot, and as soon as they saw me and Liv-Astrid they crawled straight up to us!
Then me and Liv-Astrid walked around the Wildlife Park and tried to find the tigers – my really FAVOURITE animal! Liv-Astrid liked them too. Did you know that they live to about 20 years? It’s true.
There was a nice lady there who talked to us about quite a lot of things. First she talked to us about these bugs she kept in a building in the Wildlife Park. Did you know that because geckos live in the desert, and there isn’t any water, they actually lick their eyeballs to get water? It is actually true, but also a cross between disgusting and weird!
Did you also know that comelians have a tongue that can stretch out TWICE as long as its body?
And – I might as well write a bulleted list of the thing sor they will be paragraphs and paragraphs about maybe a dozen facts 😉
- Geckos lick their eyes for water
- A comelian has a tongue twice as long as its body
- One particular type of scorpian (I can’t remember which) glows in the dark
- Only two species of piranhas are carnivores (meat-eaters)
Did you know any of those facts? I can tell you I haven’t put one mistake in them – each one is true, my friends!
Then the lady came randomly into a workshop we were doing. She gave us some nattive animals, but I didn’t really understand it – I just liked holding and stroking the animals!
My favourite animal there that we got to stroke (but not hold) was an albino skunk, Flower. She was really, really cute, and Katie got too carried away with her that we nearly missed the tiger talk!
Well…
We were all waiting on our benches for the tiger talk to begin – as the benches were just RIGHT next to a tiger cage, of course. But it turned out that the lady doing the tiger talk (the lady who did some of the workshop and the Bug City tour) was round the back of the tiger cage! So basically, she had to start all over again because we were ‘ten minutes late’.
Did you know that while people are knocking down orangutans’ habitat for palm oil they are ALSO destroying some of the world of tigers, and so orangutans AND tigers are on the endangered list?!
It’s sad, but unfortunately true…
