The Sacramento Zoo - what a joke...
 

Perhaps my memory is clouded by youthful stupidity as opposed to the middle aged stupidity it is currently being clouded by. It is even possible that I was spoiled by the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park and the now long gone Lion Country Safari as a child. But one would think that the state capital would be able to put forth a better product that the crapshack it has.

The wife and I went there on Saturday expecting to kill some time and got about 2 hours worth of "look at that animal doing nothing" or "look at that monkey crapping in his hand and throwing it at people". The latter may have been more interesting if not for a thick slab of plexiglass between the monkeys and the poor Japanese tourists that could not afford to go to a real city with a real zoo.

The day was not a total loss, since most of the public apparently already knows that the Sacramento Zoo is a joke I was able to get an unobstructed view in order to get some pictures...

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The rest can be found here if anyone gives a crap:
http://zanelli.smugmug.com/gallery/1146584

I thought this was going to be about SRIC.

Like that needs to be said...

Is Chewbacca alergic to peanuts or something? His face be all swelled up! :eek:

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What's an out of work Wookie supposed to do other than get hooked on intergalactic smack and let himself go?
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He has gotten very angry in his old age as well and now only his strung out Smart Towel RG-400 will hang out with him:
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http://www.mamut.com/homepages/Unite...ns/towelie.jpg

I have no idea what is going on right now...

I love that first pic of the Snow Leopards, very nice Dan ;)

I want a fluffy snow leopard!

oooooooo flamingos!!!!! Yay!

I like the Giraffe.

Am I the only one not seeing any flamingos anywhere?


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"Dude... llamas!"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Dan's gallery is full of flamingo pics ;)

hehehe. The flamingos are on his website. the last page and a some cool shots of just 2 flamingos, doing that thing with their leg.

I've never been to a Zoo.

There's a crap petting zoo and the Sierra Safari Zoo out in the boonies both in Red Rock. Neither are worth seeing though. I like Marine World when I went when I was in 3rd grade.

Emu.

oh oh oh kangaroos are awesome.... whats the thing in front of if? wallaroo? thing looks evil.... I like it!

Those are both Wallabees, I hear they taste like chicken...