Took the family to a small family-owned zoo. Also touched an alligator. All the animals can be hand fed. Grilled some hamburgers and hand fed myself, too.
I got to pet a giraffe today
Took the family to a small family-owned zoo. Also touched an alligator. All the animals can be hand fed. Grilled some hamburgers and hand fed myself, too.
26 Comments
treadful@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 64d
I'm sorry, I have to downvote this for not being dull.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 64d
Yeah, I don’t come here to have my sense of childlike wonder replenished!
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 64d
Sorry, gents. Tomorrow I have to replace my windshield wipers.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 11 pts · 64d
My God dude, leave some thrill for the rest of us. What are you, a 90s action hero?
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 64d
Picture shows an astonishing lack of giraffe-appropriate sized trees
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 64d
Aside from my personal views on zoos in general, I took the family and (and met our friends there) for a kids' day. There were no trees in the enclosure, but there was a giraffe-appropriate sized tether ball. 🤷♂️
The giraffea are fed carrots, green beans, and acacia leaves (at an eye-watering markup) 3 timers per day from the park guests. Judging by what I saw today that was about 100 people feeding 4 animals. I'm sure they are also receiving proper giraffe nutrition from the park caretakers. All the animals look healthy and are probably over-fed, to be honest. There are stations throughout the park to purchase food pellets that can be given to all the animals.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 63d
cope harder. you clearly know you're doing evil.
tipicaldik@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 64d
Yeah man you haven't lived til you've had an animals two-foot long purple tongue come reaching through some bars and grab you by the wrist! Aye-yai-yai!
espentan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 64d
You were being watched
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 64d
Uh oh
xep@discuss.online · 10 pts · 64d
What was it like?
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 64d
It wasn't life-changing haha. They have short, coarse hair and if I didn't have a carrot stick to feed him he wasn't at all interested in the petting lol. They have a very long, purplish tongue that they curl around the food they eat to draw it into their mouths. And that tongue is wet and sticky. But hey, I got to pet one 😁
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 64d
That's a great photo thanks for sharing
pseudo@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 63d
The Dull Men's club is getting less and less dull (^_^)
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 63d
thats awesome; not dull; I am calling the mods and the dullness police
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d
And it's World Giraffe Day today! Just found out from doing the NYT crossword.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 64d
Not sure hand feeding an alligator is wise...
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
While they can't be domesticated, they can be tamed. Also it's stupid easy to hold their jaws shut. Like a 5 or 6 year old kid would have the strength to keep their jaws shut. I agree with you though. I wouldn't get near the tame ones when I went to a gator farm in Florida. I still maintain that place is a front for the mob.
matdave@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 63d
Gator Land? I went there as a kid, but still remember it indifferently
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 63d
Gatorland is pretty cool, and relatively affordable compared to other Orlando attractions.
It's basically a zoo specializing in Florida animals.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d
I don't actually remember the name. Gatorland sounds familiar though. This was almost 30 years ago now, and I was 15 at the time. It was in the panhandle near Tallahassee, on a scout trip
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 64d
Weren't you mildly infuriated by this very zoo?
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 63d
Stupid longhorses
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 64d
not sure I want to hand feed an alligator.
Kissaki@feddit.org · 1 pts · 61d
I hope you didn't feed your hand to the alligator.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 63d
We get it, you're not a vegan; why do you have to mention it so many times every single day?