And while I'm on the subject of the zoo, let me pose a little conundrum for you smart folks. I first saw this when my wife and I visited the zoo a while back, and today had the chance to snap a picture of it.
There's a separate rainforest exhibit in a building off by itself from the rest of the zoo. A good chunk of the first floor is a whole bunch of small glass cages, most of which are a couple of feet wide and deep, and maybe four or five feet tall. They're all completely sealed from top to bottom. They contain rather mundane rainforest creatures; fish, frogs, lizards, etc.
Then we come to this particular tank.
Odd in that the glass partition stops at about the middle of my chest. Had I wanted to I could have stuck my entire arm into the water.
You can only see a couple of them in this pic due to bad lighting (there were about a dozen), but the fish down at the lower right of the tank are piranhas. The nice little plaque nearby says that there are in fact no known human killings attributed to piranhas, just a few nips here and there when people leave their hands or feet dangling off the boat. People living in the Amazon often swim in infested water with no problem.
Fine. Great. So despite what I've seen in the horror movies, they aren't going to skeletonize my arm in three seconds. But should we really take the chance?
I thought maybe they have demonstrations and toss in rabbits or something. But if that were the case, wouldn't they have a little porthole with a lock on it? What's the deal?
Ideas, anyone?
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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.