I Petted an Echidna

[Pyper]

At the San Diego Zoo. I was very excited and the echidna was very spiny and otherwise uninterested in me. Did you know echidnas are one of only three monotremes left in the world? Wow.

I also saw meerkats and bonobos and fossas and other strange, yet cuddly, creatures.

I like the zoo. But boy do colobus monkeys stink.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

K!

I Am Sooo Jealous!


I Have Yet To See The New Gorilla Rainforest At The Toronto Zoo

I Have A Speacial Place Fer Wombats, Otters And Ocelots

AND Would LOVE Ta Go Ta Madagasgar To See Some Lemurs!

Once Again. I am Sooo Jealous!

 

[Never]

At the San Diego Zoo. I was very excited and the echidna was very spiny and otherwise uninterested in me. Did you know echidnas are one of only three monotremes left in the world? Wow.

I also saw meerkats and bonobos and fossas and other strange, yet cuddly, creatures.

I like the zoo. But boy do colobus monkeys stink.

That's nice but..
Can you eat it?

 

[Pyper]

I don't think echidnas are good eatin'. But I saw some capybaras that looked mighty tasty.

 

[Laurel]

I love the S.D. Zoo! The Wild Animal Park too. My old tortie doctor left my vet to go work at the S.D. Zoo. He gets to take care of the Galapagos tortoises. My dream would be to have a big ole plot of land with a concrete-barriered area in which Galapagos torts could roam. A little pond, a hideout, lots of tasty graze...I could bring them carrots and cactus fruit every now and then and scratch their necks (they love that)...damn I'm weird...

 

[Pyper]

I was really excited to go because I hadn't been since the first pandas in the U.S. came to the zoo. I was less than two at the time, but I still remember.

Somehow I always get diverted to the Wild Animal Park, which I've been to lots of times, and is also lots of fun, but has less to do.

We didn't end up seeing the Galapagos tortoises. They weren't high on our list of animals to see though, since there is a reptile rescue station near here called Casa de Tortuga, and they have lots of sweet tortoises.

But I did see the gorillas, and the ocelots, and the lemurs. Oh, and the naked mole rats! Ugliest animal in the world, I swear!

 

[Laurel]

Oooh! Take me! Take me!

Is the Zoo still doing that "Zoo After Dark" thingy?

 

[Never]

That's nice.

Aren't tortoises edible?

 

[Laurel]

Only if you're a cold, heartless bastard.

 

[Never]

What is it, a horse?
Oh well.. looks tasty.

http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/brazil/images/capybara.gif

 

[Never]

Laurel:
"Only if you're a cold, heartless bastard."

Note to self: Laurel like tortoises like I like bats. Don't eat on in front of her.
Technically, I am a bastard though..

 

[Guest]

it's a rodent....

worlds biggest....

 

[Pyper]

Yeah, they're still doing the Zoo after Dark thingy. I didn't get to see it though, because I went with my family, who by three'o'clock were whining piteously about how hot it was and how sore their feet were.

But I was hot with sore feet too.

 

[Never]

Unregistered:
it's a rodent....

worlds biggest....

My mother would disagree with you.

 

[Pyper]

Oh yeah, there's a capybara. The ones we saw, besides being tasty, were pretty cute. They were swimming in their pool and jumping on each other amongst...other things.

 

[Guest]

Oh Never's Mom...

go here...



http://www.rebsig.com/capybara/


i didn't say it was a bad animal.... i just said it was a rodent...

 

[Mensa]

Turtle soup

Yummmmmmm!!!

 

[Never]

Please, I wouldn't let my mother onto a pornsite.

It was a joke. Some humans are called rodents around here..

 

[Guest]

they got porn here???

 

[Pyper]

Why is somebody posting as unregistered on my thread? I mean, are echidnas such a sensitive topic that people are afraid they will be sullied forever if they speak of them using their real names?

 

[Never]

Hey, leave unregistered alone. She/he/it was trying to help me..
Thank you hun.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Echidna platypus and what else?


I have petted an echidna too but I just went down the bush and found him... didn't need no SD zoo!

 

[Pyper]

Hey, Chef is pretty knowledgable about monotremes! The third monotreme is the spiny anteater, looks a lot like an echidna.

Wow...a wild echidna. Just make sure you don't pet the fuzzy wuzzy platypus, they pack a nasty wallop. Saw it on the Discovery Channel.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

they just get a little shitty and kick out with their back legs...

Seen platipi in the wild too.... it does help when you live in real bush

 

[lickerish]

You can learn about a lot of these animals by watching the "Wild Thorneberry's".. it's a cartoon that my kids watch on Nickelodean. It's pretty informative and entertaining. (I think my kids are smarter than me these days.. they're learning spanish too)

Thats where I learned about capybara's anyways...