Wander Words

In retrospect, it’s probably a bad idea to expect much out of a zoo in the summertime. I mean, the animals are as hot as the humans. They want to be lounging in whatever speck of shade their caged homes provide, and doing as little as possible besides.

But a recent visit to the Tulsa Zoo, supposedly voted America’s Favorite Zoo, probably by people who hadn’t been there in the summer, was disappointing for more than just the sleepy animals.

I don’t know how many exhibts inside were missing, but there were a lot. Maybe 20? Ranging from snakes and creepy crawlies to huge birds, there were signs everywhere pointing out the obvious fact that the exhibits were empty. And we paid good money to see all those lovely signs!

The only high point of the day was the rain forest exhibit, which was appropriately steamy and involved some cute little monkey-like creatures (not being a zoologist, I don’t know what they were) that were allowed to run around.

OK, the birds were pretty cool too. But everything else, not worth the $6.04 admission. I’ll leave you trying to figure out where they got $6.04.

Sarah White wrote this on July 28th, 2005 and filed it under Travel |