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I got to pet a giraffe today

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It wasn't life-changing haha. They have short, coarse hair and if I didn't have a carrot stick to feed him he wasn't at all interested in the petting lol. They have a very long, purplish tongue that they curl around the food they eat to draw it into their mouths. And that tongue is wet and sticky. But hey, I got to pet one 😁

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I got to pet a giraffe today

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Aside from my personal views on zoos in general, I took the family and (and met our friends there) for a kids' day. There were no trees in the enclosure, but there was a giraffe-appropriate sized tether ball. 🤷‍♂️

The giraffea are fed carrots, green beans, and acacia leaves (at an eye-watering markup) 3 timers per day from the park guests. Judging by what I saw today that was about 100 people feeding 4 animals. I'm sure they are also receiving proper giraffe nutrition from the park caretakers. All the animals look healthy and are probably over-fed, to be honest. There are stations throughout the park to purchase food pellets that can be given to all the animals.

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So nosy lmao

At the table... "What the hell are these crazy symbols? Must be some sort of communist code."

Later on TV.... "And I read every word. Most of it was praise for me. No one has done more for China than me. And Xi, oh he's wonderful, he said lot of uhh, we talked about ehh, everyone says how good Xi has been for Korea. But sleepy Joe Biden was very bad for Japan, but now we're bring down affordability, we're stopping election fraud. The war in Pakistan is almost done, they're gonna open the strait of hormel, no thanks to Obama."