Last Wednesday, I spent a very pleasant two hours at Wellington Zoo. This was courtesy of a romantic gift from my husband – a one year pass for unlimited visits. It didn’t take him long to realise that his wife suddenly became a nine year old in the presence of any four legged creature.
What I learned:
1) Our cat Otto is distressing larger than the wallabies and only slightly more intelligent than the gibbon.
2) The Australian Pelican would be able to swallow him whole (its beak can hold 13 litres of water or several kilos of fish/cat)
3) Otto’s tail cannot suspend him upside down from a tree like the spider monkey, although he has attempted this trick from above the compost bin, and failed.
4) A red panda will find the sunniest branch in the highest tree and curl up there to sleep in a Force 8 and still be there 3 hours later – Otto would not.
5) Giraffes wait patiently to be fed carrots from a bucket. Patience and food do not appear in the same sentence for Otto. Bucket, however, does.
6) The Sumatran Tiger is allowed to play with a Yellow Pages after he has breakfast. Otto sleeps on the page marked “Restaurants”.
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