The Ventura Zoo Trip

It was a very sunny Saturday, so Mack and his parents thought it was a good day to go to Ventura Zoo. Another reason to go there was because the zoo had just got a new stripey Sumatran tiger. Mack asked his parents if he could see it and they said yes. 
He went off to try to find the tiger, and, when he did, he tried to feed it some meat that he had been saving, because it looked hungry. The tiger snapped up the meat and brought Mack down with him, then the tiger started circling around him, looking angry. 
Mack screamed and tried to get away, but the tiger was too quick for him and  blocked his path. 
Luckily, the zoo keeper got a cage and put an enormous steak in it. The tiger saw it and came bounding towards it. The zoo keeper quickly closed the door on the cage and he threw Mack a rope for him to climb up. The tiger was happy then because he had a nice, yummy piece of meat.

The Hamilton Zoo Trip

It was a cloudy Wednesday morning and my group and I had just got to the Hamilton Zoo.  

First, we went to see the bird enclosure and, in it, there were some orange-crested cockatoos and multi-coloured rainbow birds. I took a photo of them and we moved on to the monkey enclosures. 
First, we saw the fuzzy, brown Capuchin monkeys, swinging around like crazy on the thick, black, hairy ropes. Next, we saw the cotton top Tamarins. They looked cute and furry. Then there were the spider monkeys. Two of them were playing a game of tag on the thick, grey, metal mesh.

Next, we all went over to the glass Tuatara cage but he wasn't in there. There were  some small bushes at the back of the cage so we all figured out that he must have been dozing around back.   

Next up were the dirty, smelly, greyish-brown rhinos in their desert-like plains. I took a photo of the one sleeping peacefully on the sand. Two were having a fight over who was the strongest rhino.

Next, we all stopped at the slimy green duck pond to have lunch. We saw some swans and I spotted a camouflaged turtle on the far side of the pond. As he stood as still as a stone on a sunny, warm rock, I took a photo of him, as well.

Finally, we went all the way back to the entrance again, and a zookeeper welcomed us all into the Education classroom. We all had to watch some slides on a whiteboard, then, when it had finished, we got a look around the room.

Afterwards, my group and I got ice cream blocks and we went back to school. I  had a really fun and awesome time there and I really want to go back.