London Zoo - The Zoo

The day we went was pretty hot - so most of the animals were sleeping or hiding out. Kim, despite several polite requests on my part, refused to jump into a number of enclosures with a pointy stick to get the lions and stuff into better photography positions. Blame not, the photographer, dear reader - it was all the assistant's fault...

Funky Gibbons?

Looks a bit like me on a Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, all his suck-up mates have been 'networking' and getting all the good stuff.

Flutterby.

And, quite possibly, the eggy thing it came from.

Spider Monkey coming over for a closer look.

And voicing an opinion.

They come over here, whinge about the weather, get drunk on our strong beer, and then look at them.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oh bugger off.

No tongues, right.

Pigmy Hippo with far more sense than us.

The best fish in the world.

Here's why. They could have asked before 'studying' my sperm, a euphemism if ever I heard one.

An ugly little lizard.

When I was a kid, I had a book all about snakes. This was my all time favorite - the Green Mamba. It hangs from trees in South America and drops down on people to inject a really nasty venom and then eat them. Ha!

Take away the buildings and you could be in Africa.

Warthogs are great. When they run, they look like they're radio controlled 'cos their tails stick straight up. These guys would put a different slant on that great Queensland sport of pig hunting - and certainly even up the odds.

African Hunting Dogs doing what Brandy does best.

Okapi's. A silly name for a silly animal. I just told Kim that it is the only mammal with a tongue long enough to clean it's own ears and she got straight on to the London Zoological Society and adopted one.

No set of photos from the zoo is complete without a piccy of a Meercat.

The Snowdon Aviary - seen better days, too. I remember when the place was packed with birds flying around your head. There are only a few these days.