{"id":1328,"date":"2016-08-11T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2016-08-31T04:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T03:05:21","slug":"indianapolis-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a scorchingly hot day, and I went to the zoo<\/a>.
\nWhere one or two of the animals seemed to have melted.<\/p>\n

There were some things I didn’t photograph, such as the shark-petting tank, where I was too distracted by seeing them swimming around right in front of me to take a picture.
\nI didn’t end up petting one;\u00a0Turns\u00a0out my desire to not disturb the critter is greater than my desire to pet a shark.<\/em><\/p>\n

The glass walled & roofed room\u00a0inside<\/strong> the dolphin tank I didn’t photograph because … well, a cellphone camera wouldn’t show a damn thing. It was fun, though rather reminiscent of the undersea lab in Jaws 3<\/a>, and I don’t remember that working out so well for anyone.
\nNear as I could tell, the room was surrounded by water, with just the entrance & outrance tubes connecting it to the dry parts of the world.
\n<\/em>Tank was kind of bare, but it may have been the staging area for the Dolphin Show, and not the ‘habitat’.<\/p>\n

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There’s a tiger in here somewhere. I remember it.<\/p>\n

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Melted bear.<\/p>\n

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Suspicious … Lemur?
\nyep; Red Ruffed Lemur<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mobile Lawn Ornaments!
\nAnd Ducks.<\/p>\n

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Lioness, enjoying the shade & breeze.<\/p>\n

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Melted Meercat.<\/p>\n

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Cheetahs, who seemed less concerned about the heat, but weren’t keen on being photographed.<\/p>\n

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Unlike these birds, who arranged themselves photogenically.<\/p>\n

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And a melted Red Panda.<\/p>\n

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The zoo also has the Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center<\/a>, with multiple linked enclosures, an open-air rope bridge system accessible from said enclosures which doesn’t provide access to the outside world, and a bunch of stuff which you’d hope the residents find interesting. This day, they found not being in the heat & the sun interesting, and I can’t blame them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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