(Title courtesy of the R. Dean Taylor song).
One thing TYG and I love doing on our Mensa trips is visiting zoos, aquariums, anything of the sort. And wouldn’t you know, the Indianapolis Zoo was located within a mile of our hotel. A very hot mile, but it was worth it. We caught the morning dolphin show (later we found a room offering a view from under the water), saw a cage full of macaws (didn’t photograph well, alas) and a colony of meerkats and hydrated a lot. Like I said, hot.
I thought this bear was a small bear. Then I got close and realized how much of him was in the water.
The flock of helmeted guinea fowl were a hoot as they clucked at us. That’s a crowned crane in the background.
There’s an orang-utan house with several apes. We got to watch one of them practice identifying symbols on the computer. It did pretty well. Below, a mother and child clown around.
Gila monster!
Cheetah!
Lion fish!
And seal! Regrettably I didn’t photograph the walrus exhibit.
One moment of comedy was when a kid next to us informed his mother very seriously that he’d counted the rhino butts and there were definitely three of them in the exhibit.
It was definitely worth getting hot and exhausted for.
#SFWApro. All photos are mine.
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