Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Mon 05 May 2008 09:39:35p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>>>
>>>> It's all happening.
>>>>
>>>> I went to the zoo today. I can't remember the last time I did that.
>>>> Well, I can...but it must've been back in the 1980s. And I'm only
>>>> fifteen minutes from the Los Angeles Zoo.
>>>>
>>>> Any zoo lovers in here?
>>>
>>> You kidding, I love the zoo. Specifically, the Bronx Zoo. Being that
>>> my father's family settled in the Bronx from Ireland, I went to the zoo
>>> many times as a kid. The San Diego Zoo was a blast, of course. And,
>>
>> SD's got a reputation as one of the better ones, doesn't it? I mean
>> outside of California, even.
>>
>>> though it's not called a zoo, I recently stayed at the Animal Kingdom at
>>> Disney, and waking up to giraffes and gazelles, etc. outside my room,
>>> that was a fun thing.
>>
>> Coincidentally, I just posted a link to a giraffe shot I got today, in
>> another reply.
>>
>> I saw something interesting today -- just something I'd
>> never seen. Some kind of gazelle or something (I regret not remembering
>> exactly what it was) standing up eating tree foliage. I mean, I'm not
>> surprised at the act; I just don't think I've ever seen it before.
>>
>> http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/tree_eater.jpg
>>
>>
>
> Another great shot! Gawd, they're tall when they're standing on the hind
> legs, aren't they?

Yeah, they really strech out. And accentuating that is how damned skinny
their legs are. Not much eatin' on a dik-dik drumstick. Go ahead, say it
out loud..."dik-dick drumstick". Isn't that fun?

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