Zoo

On our visit with Uncle Mark and Aunt Kat we went to the Tucson Zoo. Aunt Kat's brother works there so we got a behind the scene tour. Hailey loved riding in the Zebra cart.


We got to see three Giraffes before they were let out into their habitat and we got to feed them biscuits. They would stick out their long black tongue to take the treat, we have never seen anything with a tongue like that before. They had three Giraffes, two female and one male. The two female were about 14 feet tall and the male was only 11 feet but by the time he is full grown he will reach 18 feet tall. These were moms favorite of the whole tour. They really are beautiful and graceful looking animals.

By the time we got to the Zebras they were already in their habitat but a couple of them came up to the back fence so we could see them close up. Uncle Jed told us that Zebras are very aggressive animals so we shouldn't try to pet them. They had a baby Zebra as well but he didn't come to the fence. They baby was 100 pounds when he was born.


We got to pet the white rhinos and feel their horns. We always new that Rhinos were big we just never realized how big until we got upclose.



This is a picture of Hailey with the lion. There were two older lions already in the habitat but this was the son who is much more active then his parents. Uncle Jed said that his full roar is so loud that is will shack the ground and you can feel it go through your body. Luckily we didn't get to experience this and the roars we head were load enough. Hailey jumped the first time he roared but after that she liked it. I think she thought it was just a big innocent cat and wanted to play.