Edinburgh: Day 3
Today was spent at the Zoo, which like the rest of Edinburgh consists entirely of "uphill", whilst I'd love to come back in the future I feel I should undertake some training first and maybe a practice climb up Ben Nevis or Snowdon first!
We managed to see just about every animal, though a few of the big cats were a bit shy. I think my favourite was the gorgeous Sumatran Tiger, with then penguins being a close second. What surprised me about the zoo is it is almost entirely rare and endangered species rather than the more common breeds you see in other zoo's. The staff here were very knowledgable on the various habitats and creatures in their care. It's clear that they do love their animals very much.
I'll admit that some of the monkey enclosures seemed a little small for their inhabitants, one poor fella looked to be cage crazy, running back and forth on the ledge of the cage slapping the walls.
We managed to avoid the rain until the very end as we were viewing the Giant Panda's who were mostly asleep. I was surprised to learn that panda's gestate their offspring for a variable period of time, from 3 months to 13 months.
All in all a good day, dinner out at Weatherspoons tonight for a few of the local beers!
We managed to see just about every animal, though a few of the big cats were a bit shy. I think my favourite was the gorgeous Sumatran Tiger, with then penguins being a close second. What surprised me about the zoo is it is almost entirely rare and endangered species rather than the more common breeds you see in other zoo's. The staff here were very knowledgable on the various habitats and creatures in their care. It's clear that they do love their animals very much.
I'll admit that some of the monkey enclosures seemed a little small for their inhabitants, one poor fella looked to be cage crazy, running back and forth on the ledge of the cage slapping the walls.
We managed to avoid the rain until the very end as we were viewing the Giant Panda's who were mostly asleep. I was surprised to learn that panda's gestate their offspring for a variable period of time, from 3 months to 13 months.
All in all a good day, dinner out at Weatherspoons tonight for a few of the local beers!