Do You Pet Animals At Your Local Zoo?

During a keeper day I did I got to go into an okapi stall and stroke they're old female Mieke; definately an experience I'll never forget. :D
 
Just thought I'd ad my list

Asian Elephant
Giraffe
Rhea
Nine Banded Armadillo
Three Banded Armadillo
Ferret
Two Toed Sloth
Red Kangaroo
Bennett's Wallaby
Parma Wallaby
Arctic Fox
Muntjac
Tiger (Cub)
Pied Crow
American Alligator
Rhesus Macaque
Capybara
Ring Tailed Lemur
Aoudad
Bison
Grevy Zebra
Grant's Zebra
Elk
Striped Skunk
Emu
Fallow Deer
Eland
Water Buffalo
Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman
Ostrich
Kookaburra
Bongo
Roseate Spoonbill
Scimitar Horned Oryx
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Many Farm animals
Many Reptiles
Many Parrot species


All of which have been under the supervision of zookeepers.
 
Once at Taronga, when the elephants were in their barn, the keeper let me touch the trunk of either Porntip or Thong Dee......I was stunned!

Apart from that experience, I only ever pet the goats and sheep at the petting zoo!
 
Well at the Cincinnati Zoo I have only touched the animals brought out by the docents, the children's zoo animals (I have a soft spot for the two Dexter Cows ), scratched a giraffe's chin while feeding it at the feeding station, and during a special over-night experience in Manatee Springs while behind the scenes above the manatee exhibit a manatee did rub up against my hand. All of this was under keeper supervision. I wouldn't be one to go and touch the animals at the zoo without permission or supervision of the keepers.

Though at an exotic animal ranch and children's zoo in Centerville, Ohio you are allowed to touch and feed(Very few are you allowed to) certain animals. There I've touched and fed a young Nilgai bull, a Chital doe, Fallow Deer, a Yak calf, two Water Buffalo calves, a Red Deer cow, ostriches, emus, a Bornean Bearded Pig piglet, Blackbuck, and a Grant's Zebra, along with the regular children's zoo animals. All was under docent supervision.
 
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