Wildlife

When I was in the Wolf Cubs, we had a Cubmaster who worked for the Canadian Wildlife Service.  One time a flamingo flew into our area by mistake, and they were taking care of him before bringing him south.  He let us see the flamingo, but from a distance.  I also remember the "Hinterland Who's Who" ads that the CWS put on TV, with that flute melody at the beginning.

Or you can see quasi-wildlife at the zoo.  The London Zoo is a place I've often visited when in that city.  It was the original "zoo," short for "zoological gardens." What not everyone knows is that the word is properly pronounced with an extra syllable, like "zohological." (It goes back to the Greek alphabet having no letter equivalent to "H.") I once saw a zookeeper there talking to a monkey!

One thing to see at the Zoo is a statue of Amrika Paul.  She was a little girl in the 1960s dying of leukaemia, who went to England for unsuccessful treatment.  In the short time she had left she found great comfort from her zoo visits.  After her death her family stayed in England and became really wealthy in the Anglo-Indian trade. (Her father even got appointed to the House of Lords!) Years later, when the Zoo was in a financial crisis and in danger of closing, her family made a huge contribution that helped keep it going.

If you see a zoo animal running in a circle, that means he's stir crazy.