San Diego Zoo

Mum and I where the only ones going to San Diego Zoo because Zak was sick and Dad was looking after him.

When we got inside the first thing we did was take a bus. Our tour guide told us interesting facts like 'flamingos are pink because of the shrimp they eat'. But the interesting thing about our tour was the guide sang a song about the zoo.






We saw a few animals, then took the gondola. We had a great view of the zoo from up there, although Mum found the height intimidating!

We saw gazelles, grizzly bears, polar bears, giraffe, pandas, elephants, flamingos, capybara and lots more.

The snake we saw in the queue to see the Giant Pandas was well camouflaged and approximately as thick as my wrist. I looked into the enclosure but I couldn't find it until I realised it was right in front of me.

There were 3 Pandas. The mother and the baby where in one enclosure and the father in another. They are kept separate because they are generally solitary animals. The mother was munching on some bamboo and the baby was lying in a hammock... the father was nowhere to be seen. The pandas diet was made up of pear, carrot and bamboo. In the wild pandas only eat one or two types of bamboo.






This picture was taken in the dark... We were there early in the evening.

We were at the zoo until around closing time. We got given directions but still got lost and then we found our way to a zoo bus that took us near the entrance and gave us clearer directions on where to go. Then we had a bit of trouble navigating our way back to the hotel but we managed to figure it out.

By Emma

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