It's been snowing on and off for the past week. After a huge dump of snow, we decided to go and check out the Berlin Zoo, Germany's oldest zoo. Some german comedian was being filmed feeding the polar bears. I didn't pay any attention to him since the polar bears were much more amusing.
After that, we saw the penguins, which were begging me to pet them. Seriously, you can stand right next to their pool, and they swim around you and shake their tails. I was too afraid of catching some sort of penguin parasite (and of getting caught and thrown out of the zoo) so I resisted.
The biggest attraction of the Berlin zoo is the Polar Bear Knut. When he was born, his mother rejected him (bitch) which made his father (both pictured above) want to scarf him up for dinner. He had to be seperated and raised by a zoo employee, who unfortunatly died this past christmas. The zoo is talking about getting rid of Knut because he needs a mate and they're too cheap to buy him one even tho he makes them all their money! Seriously, the gift shop was full of Knut polar bear paraphenilia. Poor Knut. He also has some emotional problems, like, he can't stand to not have attention and at x-mas time when everyone was unwrapping presents, the zoo keepers had to stand infront of his cage and pretend they were oohing and aahing at him so he'd stop crying. Pretty sad.
We stumbled into the wild cat part of the zoo just as they were being fed. All the cats paced anxiously in their cages, their eyes intent on the zoo keeper. At first, I didn't know what was going on. It reminded me of that part of "The Day After Tomorrow" when all the animals are going crazy at the zoo and the guy's like, "What's going on, Ceaser?" the end of the world, that's what! So, I was a little nervous... that is, until I saw this adorable little guy eating the face off of a bird.
That lioness is hangry! I was actually feeling a bit peckish myself.. until I watched all the animals destroy their food.. which was mostly gigantic rib cages, tins of livers mixed with eggs, or dead birds/rats.
Then we saw some monkeys. They weren't too crazy. We had just missed them eat, so they were all falling asleep. No poop hurling. We ended our four hour visit at the Elephant shack. It was pretty stinky in there, so I took a few pictures and then the camera told me I couldn't take anymore because I was a crazy person who managed to take 170 pictures of animals in 4 hours. I will leave you with the highlights.
Or not... the computer is all crazy now. So enjoy the camel trying to do the splits!
