Walking With Lemurs

It was great to get close to these fascinating creatures, which like many animals from Madagascar, can’t be found anywhere else in the world. The presenter who fed and talked about them was lovely, with enthusiasm about the animals shining out.

There were three types of lemur here, but only the ring-tailed lemurs came out because of the high winds. Apparently the red-ruffed lemurs quite often bully them away from the food if they join them. It was just after this that the announcement about the zoo closing came.

A First Picture

A rather self-indulgent part of this blog (although what part of it isn’t self-indulgent?) will be the posting of pictures that have been taken at zoos by myself and my friends. I had a hard time choosing the first picture to put up, but I knew I had to because otherwise this blog would be entirely too wordy, and I fancied having something pretty to look at when I visited it. So, here it is:

Meerkats are always incredibly popular with everyone, and it’s not hard to see why. Even with my indie taste in animals (I’ll talk more of this later), I can’t help loving the meerkats. They’re so easy to anthropomorphise. This meerkat is at Chester Zoo, where they have a pretty nice indoor/outdoor enclosure and plenty of stuff to do.