Comments on: Pick up a penguin

By: Lady Banana

Lady Banana — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:29:39 +0000

I live very close to London Zoo, but had not visited for years until earlier this year. I’m pleased to say a lot of it, including the penguin pool has been re-built and re-designed…

Please feel free to take a look at my Flickr photos :)

http://flickr.com/photos/ladybanana/490320319/in/set-72157600193135209/

http://flickr.com/photos/ladybanana/sets/72157600193135209/show/

By: Whit

Whit — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:09:35 +0000

They could make it into a zoo/skate park. Empty pools are very popular with that set.

By: Grandma

Grandma — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:31:47 +0000

Oli - with reference to your comment is it a good time to point out that Kerry is half Scottish!

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:12:12 +0000

The last zoo I went to was three or four years ago - Flamingoland.

Beleive me, if you go there it will also be the last zoo that you go to.

I’m all for giving the animals plenty of room to roam but standing at the fence to a field where you can’t see the other side while, you read a card telling you that there are animals that you’d like to see in that field if only they hadn’t all pissed off to the other side of the field, the bit that you can’t see, well lets just say you soon regret paying the extra to go in the zoo bit of Flamingoland.

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:51:25 +0000

I do love London Zoo - but it does have the feel of a big machine fine-tuned for the purpose of extracting people from their money at all costs, sometimes. The children’s zoo in Battersea Park is seriously cute, though, and well worth a visit.

By: CamiKaos

CamiKaos — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:35:25 +0000

I too love zoos. In fact one of the nice things about having a kid is that I had an excuse to get a membership to our local Zoo so I can go whenever I want to… but I hate our penguin exhibit. It is stinky (more so than it needs to be) and stark and depressing. It is the one part of the zoo I can’t stand to be in.

poor penguins of the zoos of the world.

By: Oli

Oli — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:22:53 +0000

Edinburgh zoo seems to have a similarly styled penguin enclosure, which is grey, bleak and a bit slimy.
Much like the rest of Scotland.

The heading of today’s post reminds me of a news story about a boy who nicked a penguin from the zoo. Apparently his attention and interest had been captivated by the birds, and his parents didn’t notice him smuggling one out of the zoo. The thought he was a little quiet in the car, and after an hour in the bathroom, they opened the door to find him in the bath - with a penguin.