Saturday, January 26, 2008

The Merida Zoo and the Cemetery Again

At first we weren't going to go to the zoo as we'd been told that it's not a particularly good one and the animals are sad. In the end we did go and it wasn't as bad as the one in Kunming, China, and parts were even fairly nice. What I didn't know and do now is the length of a giraffe's tongue. That tongue goes out one side of his mouth and loops under his chin and up the other side. I'm not sure why this should be useful, but the fellow seemed to have gotten something in his mouth or on his tongue that he was trying to remove. In any case, he could wash his whole lower muzzle with ease.




We revisited the cemetery. It wasn't as spooky as I thought it might be without the noonday sun.