{"id":59826,"date":"2011-08-29T02:08:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/59826\/finger-butt-finger-mouth-ewwww\/"},"modified":"2011-08-29T02:08:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T06:08:39","slug":"finger-butt-finger-mouth-ewwww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/59826\/finger-butt-finger-mouth-ewwww\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger in the Butt; Finger in the Mouth. Ewwww!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, what a beautiful day!<\/font><\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019re a gorilla.<\/p>\n

I went to the Seattle Zoo today (AKA The Woodland Park Zoo) and, of course, I brought the camera along.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t, going to the zoo by myself would have been kind of weird, but with it, it\u2019s like all of you were coming with me!<\/p>\n

I had a good time, but yet, there is something sad about zoos.\u00a0 Sad in that most of the animals really don\u2019t look like they want to be there.\u00a0 Sad because zoos are necessary as a last line of defense for endangered species.<\/p>\n

Now, in support of my non-video-able friends, I have some \u201cframe grabs\u201d to share with you too.<\/p>\n

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Of course, I went to the zoo on my trusty bicycle, which itself was looking very good as I just had it \u201cdetailed\u201d.<\/font><\/p>\n


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Have you seen the movie \u201cMadagascar\u201d?\u00a0 In that film, the penguins were always scheming on how to escape from the zoo.\u00a0 From what I saw today, the penguins looked to be the happiest animals in the whole place.<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah\u2026. Right there\u2026. Yeaaahhh\u2026
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Can you spot the animal in this photo?\u00a0\u00a0 Kinda hard to see.
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I\u2019m sure there are lots of zoos that have cockroaches.\u00a0 Probably running around in the bushes and under the buildings.\u00a0 Up here in the northwest, it\u2019s a bit too cold for cockroaches, so they put them in cages and put them on display.<\/font><\/p>\n

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One thing that is frequently disappointing about zoos is that animals just lie there, sleeping or hiding.\u00a0 Not true with the Liberal Lemurs!\u00a0 See, the political zoologists at the zoo mistakenly housed the Lemurs right next to\u2026 or left next to the Vic d\u2019Monkeys.\u00a0 The calls of the right-leaning primates next door agitate the Liberal Lemurs to no end.\u00a0 They reacted.\u00a0 D would be proud.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of course, there was a lot of nom nom noming going on\u2026
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\nAnd the animals pitched in to help maintain the place.\u00a0 Who knew you could train a turkey vulture?!?
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\nNow, I saw several exhibits where they housed two different species of animals in the same enclosure.\u00a0 Usually closely related, compatible animals, or ones that took up very different areas of the space (like ground and tree), but the strangest mix was moose and wolf.
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\nI mean, don\u2019t wolves EAT moose?\u00a0 I know a single wolf wouldn\u2019t even try to take on a full grown moose, but it can\u2019t be good for the moose\u2019s nerves to have a lupine roommate!
\nCertainly the most contemplative looking animals in the whole zoo were the orangutans. Having a 28x zoom lens on my video camera allowed me to look into the eyes of these intelligent creatures in a way that just looking at them from 60 feet away would not.\u00a0 Look at these eyes\u2026
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As I mentioned in the intro, I had a problem with the gorillas.\u00a0 Or, perhaps I should say, the gorillas had a problem.\u00a0 Finger in the butt.\u00a0\u00a0 Finger in the mouth.\u00a0\u00a0 You can hear in the video, the crowd go \u201cewwww!!\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the video itself!\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Are you a zoo critic?\u00a0 A zoo lover?\u00a0 Ever put your finger in your.. Err.. Never mind.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Ah, what a beautiful day! Unless you\u2019re a gorilla. I went to the Seattle Zoo today (AKA The Woodland Park Zoo) and, of course, I brought the camera along.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t, going to the zoo by myself would have been kind of weird, but with it, it\u2019s like all of you were coming with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,837,42],"tags":[541,81,95,1538,2338],"class_list":["post-59826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-life","category-nature-2","category-photography","tag-animals","tag-joko","tag-nature","tag-seattle","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}