Took the family to a small family-owned zoo. Also touched an alligator. All the animals can be hand fed. Grilled some hamburgers and hand fed myself, too.
i_stole_ur_taco 22 points 2 days ago
Yeah, I don’t come here to have my sense of childlike wonder replenished!
SeductiveTortoise 9 points 2 days ago
My God dude, leave some thrill for the rest of us. What are you, a 90s action hero?
unemployedclaquer 17 points 2 days ago
Picture shows an astonishing lack of giraffe-appropriate sized trees
thagoat 9 points 2 days ago
Aside from my personal views on zoos in general, I took the family and (and met our friends there) for a kids' day. There were no trees in the enclosure, but there was a giraffe-appropriate sized tether ball. 🤷♂️
The giraffea are fed carrots, green beans, and acacia leaves (at an eye-watering markup) 3 timers per day from the park guests. Judging by what I saw today that was about 100 people feeding 4 animals. I'm sure they are also receiving proper giraffe nutrition from the park caretakers. All the animals look healthy and are probably over-fed, to be honest. There are stations throughout the park to purchase food pellets that can be given to all the animals.
tipicaldik 13 points 2 days ago
Yeah man you haven't lived til you've had an animals two-foot long purple tongue come reaching through some bars and grab you by the wrist! Aye-yai-yai!
LadyButterfly 2 points 2 days ago
Uh oh
thagoat 13 points 2 days ago
It wasn't life-changing haha. They have short, coarse hair and if I didn't have a carrot stick to feed him he wasn't at all interested in the petting lol. They have a very long, purplish tongue that they curl around the food they eat to draw it into their mouths. And that tongue is wet and sticky. But hey, I got to pet one 😁
LadyButterfly 6 points 2 days ago
That's a great photo thanks for sharing
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 4 points 18 hours ago
thats awesome; not dull; I am calling the mods and the dullness police
too_high_for_this 4 points 2 days ago
And it's World Giraffe Day today! Just found out from doing the NYT crossword.
jordanlund 4 points 2 days ago
Not sure hand feeding an alligator is wise...
AngryCommieKender 3 points 2 days ago
While they can't be domesticated, they can be tamed. Also it's stupid easy to hold their jaws shut. Like a 5 or 6 year old kid would have the strength to keep their jaws shut. I agree with you though. I wouldn't get near the tame ones when I went to a gator farm in Florida. I still maintain that place is a front for the mob.
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 17 hours ago
Gatorland is pretty cool, and relatively affordable compared to other Orlando attractions.
It's basically a zoo specializing in Florida animals.
AngryCommieKender 1 point 16 hours ago
I don't actually remember the name. Gatorland sounds familiar though. This was almost 30 years ago now, and I was 15 at the time. It was in the panhandle near Tallahassee, on a scout trip
HerbalGamer 3 points 2 days ago
Weren't you mildly infuriated by this very zoo?
HubertManne 2 points 2 days ago
not sure I want to hand feed an alligator.
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