Zoo visitors antics!

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Colchester-dude

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I was at ther zoo the other day when a couple with young childdren where looking at the Chimps with humour. An adult female was cleaning her bottom and then urinated on the glass.

We know here at zoochat that this is normal chimp behaviour as the Chimpanzee was only marking her territory and having a daily clean of her body.

As I was standing admiring the animal the man beside me commented
"Urgh she picking her a*se!" while near his three or four year old son.
The mans wife also said something along the lines of "Look its having a pee at me" and then stated "How manky... what a horrible monkey"

I was just wondering what other Zoochat members experiences were and what funny or crude things were mentioned :confused:
 
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Lol every time at every zoo, it never fails to amaze some that living things actually do that sort of things :rolleyes:
 
I went to Twycross sometime last year. I heard on the radio that there was a child's dummy in the enclosure of a cat that I can't remember. Then passing another keeper I heard them say there was a child's dummy in the penguin pool. I was amazed some time later to hear someone asking for permission to go & retrieve a child's dummy from the tortoise enclosure. What is it with people there, it sounded like a full time job for someone to retrieve all the dummies!
 
Bong su espcially in Melbourne, the bull elephant. Since male elephants can retract their genetials, whenever it becomes visible, the area is full of comments.
 
It's like a fascination for some people when an animal urinates, particularly something like a rhino for example. I always think of the husband who is forever scratching and having a quick feel of his bits in the morning, getting told off by his wife then seeing chimps do the same thing at the zoo. The husband can then turn to his wife and say "See! It's natural!"
 
OrangePerson said:
I went to Twycross sometime last year. I heard on the radio that there was a child's dummy in the enclosure of a cat that I can't remember. Then passing another keeper I heard them say there was a child's dummy in the penguin pool. I was amazed some time later to hear someone asking for permission to go & retrieve a child's dummy from the tortoise enclosure. What is it with people there, it sounded like a full time job for someone to retrieve all the dummies!
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At Marwell once, a toddler leaned over the coati enclosure and dropped their dummy, probably accidental. One of the coatis ran over and promptly put it in it's mouth, creating the Maggie Simpson of the animal world.
 
Marwell Dalek said:
At Marwell once, a toddler leaned over the coati enclosure and dropped their dummy, probably accidental. One of the coatis ran over and promptly put it in it's mouth, creating the Maggie Simpson of the animal world.
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the coati, maggie simpson of the animal world, fantastic line!
 
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