The zoo

I hung out with my friend June yesterday. At first we'd like to go shopping but June said that the zoo had some new animals and flowers. I hadn't been there for ages and really curious about what kind of animals they have. So we went to the zoo.

I remember the first time I came to this zoo I was 6 or 7. I was very young at that time and quite excited about visiting the zoo. In my memories, the zoo was extremely large. I almost couldn't reach the end. But things changed since I have grown up, this time I felt it's not a big zoo at all. I even wondered if this zoo was the same one I had visited before.

The zoo has many kinds of animals. There are some rare ones like alpaca, lesser panda, seal, giraffe, raccoon, llama and some more common animals like tiger, lion, wolf, monkey, and crane.

I liked llamas most. They were just so adorable! There were only two there and I guess one was a boy and the other was a girl. They were not like other animals standing far away from people but walked up close and looked at me. Very gentle eyes, just like water waving when they blinked. They moved close and would like to eat everything! June's umbrella almost became their food.

The tongue of the giraffes was soft, strong and flexable. It looked like they were eating when they were drinking. I really had no idea why they needed to be that strenuous to drink. After they drank some water leaked from their mouth.

The poorest animal was the wolf. They'd like to drink but the basin was empty. They can do nothing but to walk around the cage again and again. June said to me, "Won't they feel even thirster then before? Walking will cost them energy and water too." Maybe the wolf didn't like humans. They couldn't speak and couldn't make people understand them. So they have to walk around to make people notice them. But it was no use. No zoo keepers came.

I start to feel sorry about the animals. If they were living in their hometown, at least they could drink and walk and jump and go wherever they'd like to be. But now, they were in a cage. No freedom, even not enough water. On the other hand, if there is no zoo in the world, we couldn't have a chance to stand so close to the rare animals. We will have no chance to observe them. It's really a very complex and hard thing to tell whether zoos are right or wrong.