It's the New Zoo Revue....

.....coming back to you...." Does anyone else remember that show?? PBS? Mid to late seventies?? Right up there with Sesame Street, ZOOM, and Electric Co? (Does anyone remember that Morgan Freeman was on Electric Co?) It was one of those typical cheesy learning show - there was Freddy the Frog, Charlie the Owl and Henrietta Hippo and OH MY GOSH - I'm now certifiable with this long-term memory thing. The whole reason I bring it up, is that I went to the zoo last week.

Now, if you've never been to the Zoo in the winter, by all means GO - there aren't any crowds and it's colder so the animals are more likely to be out and playful. Maybe you northern people don't have that problem, but in the south - zoo animals are quite sluggish in the summer, as they should be. But it was FANTASTIC!!! I spent at least 15 to 20 minutes per exhibit. They all had such animated personalities - sometimes I just thought I just might be in Narnia and they were going to start talking. There's a new baby rhino named Mayor Bill. He was hilarious- just wanted someone to pay attention to him or play with him, so he kept butting his little horn against the legs of one rhino, then another - no one wanted to play (sad face). But he didn't give up- just kept at it. The chimp preserve was precious -there were two chimps right on the glass, doing the grooming thing. One chimp had a severly hurt wrist - hair and skin off and it was raw. This girl chimp just kept on him, you could tell it hurt and she just kept licking at it, comforting him, staying with him. I just sat at the glass right there - I just wanted to reach in there and fix it. There was some kind of serious alpha-male thing going on in the Macaw cage, something about the new guy on cell block one. And I tried to organize a prison break in the South-American bird exhibit - they ignored me. Bottom line- people - get off the web and go to the zoo!!!