I didn't I spelled "nowt" with a w, in point of fact.
And if you are not a teenager, then I apologise for the assumption although my point about young people often being the loudest on here to complain about young people does stand as a general statement.
The jumping rats are always active when I go and I like the fact that you can see into their off exhibit area so you can see them in normal light. The bettong [ does the zoo have more than one?] is always sleeping and I've never seen it move and I've even heard someone say to the person they were with "is it dead?".
I don't know how that was the first thing they thought of.
It's quite a common question asked in zoos. If an animal isn't moving, then it must be dead! The zoo used to have two bettongs, but I've only spotted one in the past couple of months.
Its interesting that some people mistake a Tamandua with an Aardvark. No common visitor in germany knows an aardvark, we only have three zoos with them,so if people see them, they belive to see, of course, an antaeter, coati or an earth pig...
By the way-does anybody know, in which year the Nocturnal house at the National Zoo was opened and if it is operating ? I belive, it was closed recently , or was this at Philadelphia ?
Aardvarks are a bit more common around here and I think most people have at least heard of the animal even if they can't identify what it looks like. I'd say coati is much more likely to be the unknown in the US.
You're thinking Philadelphia. It was only a section of the mammal house but it was very wonderful with lots of great species and some nice enclosures. I visited in July 2014 and at the time they had Pygmy Slow Loris, Malagasy Giant Rat, Greater and Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Common Vampire Bat, Sugar Glider, Asian Garden Dormouse, Striped Possum, Short-Beaked Echidna, and Feathertail Glider.
