Zoo Day

A day at the zoo for the wife and I was a refreshing difference from the typical weekend of sitting around doing laundry. Refreshing like falling off a crab boat in the Bering Sea. It was supposed to be relatively warm but the Oregon Zoo sits a couple hundred feet above the rest of the city and the wind was howling. For most of the animals; the polar bears, the penquins, the sea otters, but the strange exhibits were the rhinos, giraffes, and zebras because it was 40 degrees and the savanna isn't exactly just a stones throw away. How is it possible for these animals to survive in our Pacific northwest climate when their natural home is so much warmer? Anyway, I kinda felt bad for the poor creatures, the only way I can really justify keeping the animals in such a small habitat is the conservation work that zoos do. I do enjoy seeing the animals but that is outweighed by the sadness of an 11 foot elephant walking in circles in a room only three times its own length. That's all I have to say about that.