We arrived later than I had wanted but we still managed to drop off the camper at Terramungamine Reserve (to make sure we got a spot) and got to the zoo at 1. The plan was to see a section of the zoo and some shows to make it easier tomorrow. The boys rode their bikes around whilst Matt and I walked.

We saw quite a few animals in the time we were there and my favourite were the white-handed gibbons swinging around the ropes.



We watched the Galapagos Tortoise feed. The male was 40 years old and female 95 years old. They move at a top speed of 0.3km per hour and the males can grow to 300kg. The keeper demonstrated "the finch response" to the crowd. It is where when a finch comes and picks at the tortoise, it will stand up tall and stretch out its neck. It does this so the finch can easily clean off all the bug and parasites on the tortoise. It stays very still in a trance like state and this was mimicked by the zoo keeper giving the tortoise a scratch.



The last show of the day was the African wild dogs. They were bigger than I expected; a bit bigger than a dingo. This was a pack of 6 males that the keeper says probably only have 18 months of life left in them. When they were thrown the kangaroo carcass is was every dog for themselves. They fought for ages for each piece of meat, even getting as vicious as the dogs ganging up and biting the one with the meat.






We did a final drive through in our car just before leaving and Liam was asleep super fast so just Zach and I walked through the Aussie enclosure siting wallabies, peacocks and koalas.