This zoo is so cool because it has a section in it that is solely dedicated
to Australian wildlife. In this exhibit they had it all gated up but you could
enter in the facility and the animals weren’t caged. The animals in the facility were
kangaroos, wallabies, and emus which were all running free. Okay, there really wasn’t
any running cause the kangaroos were snoozing, the wallabies were just sitting, doing nothing,
and the emus were just roaming. It was chill, until Tara told Teagan and I to
go stand by the emu so she could get a candid photo. We inched near the emu and
I heard some sort of growling so we stood like a foot and a half to two feet
away from the emu. Tara couldn’t hear the growling so she kept saying, “Get
closer!” Teagan and I just looked at each other and kept backing up slowly.
Finally, we got to where it was an acceptable distance for the camera woman,
and got our pic snapped. After that I guess the emu felt a bond between us
because it kept following us around like a lost puppy dog. My other nephew,
Tate was in the stroller cause he was “too tired to walk” and Steffan was being
held by his momma. The emu that kept following us became curious of the
stroller and the weird boy in it. It walked up to Tate, looked at him and
pecked him on the head. Tate freaked and pulled down the sun shade to block the
emu from having further contact with his head. That didn’t stop the emu cause
he just stuck his head up the hole where Tate’s feet were. Tate flipped, and
is now afraid of emu’s. I mean he does have a legitimate reason though.
Seriously, as I am typing this I am bustin’ up. I wish we had the whole ordeal on film, it would have been a YouTube sensation!
While walking around we spotted a clump of worms on a tree.
We all stopped and stared at the clump and were stumped by what it actually
was. Naturally, Teagan wanted to touch the clump to discover on his own what it
was. Tara told him no because it didn’t seem like a good idea since they had
spikes on them. We started to walk away
and right then a zoo worker walked by. We asked her about the clump of worms
and she just looked at us like we were crazy and then she was like, “Uh
those aren’t worms. Those are spitfire and if you touch them they will spit acid at
you." WTF? Is everything here like on steroids and super insane? When we got home we did some research on those little buggers and
it turns out that they are basically just larva because eventually they turn
into wasps. HOLY CRAP.