After we crossed Cook Strait on the ferry, we picked Elijah up at the airport. He had spent the week at a youth camp in Dunedin. After that, we went to the zoo.
Gayle treated the children to ice creams and ice blocks. While Miss Joy ate hers, she climbed through a lizard’s throat! It was a slide.
There were a lot of sculptures scattered through the zoo. She loved sitting on them!
Otters
An agouti. The next picture shows an exhibit designed to illustrate the agouti’s habit of hoarding stashes of food!
The red panda was perched directly above our path on a high branch.
The sun bear was fed while we were there. We were amused at the way it used its foot as a table!
Miss Joy’s favorite spot was the chimpanzee enclosure. She and her daddy stayed there for a long time. She was enthralled with the baby, who was climbing around and checking everything out.
I had never seen a capybara before! We have a book about one, titled Capyboppy, so it was delightful to actually see one–although it did nothing except sleep.
The ring-tailed lemurs were fun to watch! When they walk through tall grass, all you can see is the waving tails, which stand nearly straight up.
The squirrel monkeys were a lot of fun to watch, too. We found a bench beside them, and stayed there for awhile. They were quite active.
I really liked the Wellington Zoo. It is small, but laid out in such a way that it feels quite spacious. The enclosures are fairly natural, and the animals seemed reasonably happy.
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