Wednesday, July 22, 2009

bad idea


one Saturday in June Dylan, Thomas, Ashley and I went to the Hangzhou Zoo to check out wildlife. Unfortunately we were unaware of the experience the next 3 hours would bring. In the cab there I felt childlike giddiness then I arrived and saw the monkeys. Some monkeys did not look too healthy: they were missing patches of fur and had some kind of lumpy infections. The hungry bears were being fed junk food by zoo visitors. The zebras and almost-wingless ostriches shared a pen. After the seal show we decided to leave and passed by the deer pen. We witnessed a doe laying on the ground in blood surrounded by zookeepers. They had to hold her down and then I noticed a fawn laying near her tail. She had given birth to a still-born and after helping the doe, the keepers brought out an old trash bag to toss the fawn in. It was horrific; Ashley cried and I think everyone just wanted to go home. It took forever to catch a cab and once we had one I fell asleep.

The best part of going to the zoo was seeing a real panda...but he was eating some kind of muffin.

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