Pretty sure I fell asleep before midnight but why am I awake
Had a really lovely (but very tiring omg) day at the zoo with the family for along's (and chiqa's) birthdays
I just have this simultaneous intense love for animals but also couldnt help thinking if it was our responsibility at all to take care of them?
Like are humans just nice enough to decide to adopt some of them and making it their cause to protect these species, can we imagine life whereby we just coexist and just treat animals like another race and not an entirely different species
So cool but im glad we live in a world where humans takes care of animals (even though they're so equipped to survive on their own)
And Zoos are always a debatable thing- whether it's great that they're held in captive or is the welfare not worth their deprivation of free roaming.
I guess this is a thought for individual minds.
A few fun things I did/learnt in a weird order my brain decided to put them
- Inuka, our only polar bear left is 27 years old; 2 years above the average lifespan of a polar bear
- I can't say the word Falabella without an Italian accent (hahahaha can't yeah right)
- Elephant and I held a stick insect; I was shocked initially cause I expected some weight but it literally felt like someone putting a feather on your hand
- The lionness was in heat, meaning both lions were in their laziest mood they ignored the food thrown to them by the zookeepers
- Talking about zookeepers, it's still in one of my ambitions' list
- Oh no I didnt find out the giraffe's name but it's so dainty
- A few animals shared the name "Bella"
- Some other names I remember are Pasha (gorgeous white tiger I love it but it looked so lonely without omar), the elephant squad including Gambit (I remember Anusha too), Kayla and Simba the lions, The orang utans clique including Chomel, Pedro the intelligent sealion
- Overpriced. Overpriced. But you just somehow spend.
- We hired a trolley to put along's gigantic birthday present hahaha
- Pedro is too cool, im always impressed- I actually saw the trainer at KFC before the show catching up with her friends (who later was saboed as a volunteer) so friends if I dont get to be a zookeeper somehow one of you please be one
- Oh yes how did I not mention this earlier, we fed a Rhino called Nana! Quite scary though had to slide the carrot down the front of its face and push it right into its mouth which was biiiiig :O and muddy hehahah so cute
- Touched Bella and Candice the horses and chiqa fed some goats
- Oh there was this poll board where we were to vote on which endangered species were to get more portion of funds in saving efforts- between three animals (omg I cant recall I just remember orang utans.... is it elephant alamak will check again hahahha) and even though the orang utans were winning by like 20000 votes, it was so heartwarming to see that every single person I saw voting actually voted for all three :')
(also brings me to why we can think so unbiasedly regarding animals but not fellow humans hahahaha but then again people who love animals are usually kind people bless)
- But then along came a group of kids who just spammed any buttons they liked ahahais imagine if the decision was made by literal spam from kids
- Wait how could I not mention the main event; shammy surprising along with a loud rock happy birthday song, a (super delicious omg) salted caramel cake and a monster truck (aka the reason we had to rent a trolley) it went well hahahahah even though her hands were shaking while trying to light the candles- from where we were hiding, it was hilarious seeing mama try to divert along's attention by making him do different poses and take photo with the hippo statue hahahaha he even had to put his head in the hippo's mouth- it helped though we managed to sneak behind him to play the music
- Made friends with a couple of explorers while looking for camouflaged insects hahaha I loved it
Anyway, since we didnt cover the whole park this time round, it just means I have to go again soon!
Yayz
Ok I think my brain is in an awkward sleep-awake state so this post is filled with more queries than opinions which is nice dont try to analyze me por favor
I will try to get back to sleep it is 3.17am
Adeuuuu
