rob3770 10:46 Tue Aug 25
Colchester Zoo
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This place any good, compared to London zoo etc?
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bruuuno
8:40 Tue Aug 25
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lovely gentle beasts are tapirs...cant believe some spear chucker types eat them
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Northern Sold
8:29 Tue Aug 25
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remember watching a pair of Tapir's swimming in complete darkness (apart from moonlight) in their enclosure at san Diego zoo... we watched them for about half hour... great quirky animal for sure
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bruuuno
8:25 Tue Aug 25
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Fav animal is the tapir, hth
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bruuuno
8:24 Tue Aug 25
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I always take a girl to the zoo or aquarium for a date early on, lovely afternoon out
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JACK1
8:21 Tue Aug 25
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It's a good day out - very 'hilly' so be prepared lots to do we used to take my daughter on a regular basis .
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Northern Sold
7:46 Tue Aug 25
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Probably number 4 in my all time fav Zoo's
1) San Diego (by a country mile)
2) Miami
3) Chester
4) Colchester
5) Paignton
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Rise Park family
7:30 Tue Aug 25
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Great day out if you like that kind of stuff. My girls love it
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MrCrowmanSir
5:50 Tue Aug 25
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It's good but don't go in the summer school holidays, it's full of riff raff.
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Oh dear
3:31 Tue Aug 25
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A good day out, my kids loved it.
Knocks the spots of London Zoo
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Fivetide
3:12 Tue Aug 25
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Very good zoo for young and old. And unless you are really very old or have some disability, you really should be able to walk around outside for a day without special planning :)
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Billy Blagg
3:05 Tue Aug 25
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It's an excellent zoo although as I live a 15 minute drive from it but have only ever been twice I might not be the best person to comment.
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White Pony
2:31 Tue Aug 25
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There is a most excellent book on this zoo:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Story-Colchester-Zoo-Kershaw/dp/0752493469
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Mr Kenzo
2:25 Tue Aug 25
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Hahahaha, so bitter. Still living off Food Aid Parcels ?
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ManorParkHammer
2:20 Tue Aug 25
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'Let's be fair we all go to zoo's to see two things.
Animals fucking.
Animals shitting'
Sounds like an average night in Kenzos bedsit.
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Mr Kenzo
2:13 Tue Aug 25
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A couple from North Carolina travelled to Hawaii last month to pursue their dream of having a "dolphin-assisted birth" for their baby due in July, the Charlotte Observer reports.
The couple is hoping to bond with animals in the wild, spending time in the water with them before and after the birth. If the new parents are "lucky" they may even be able to have the baby in the water, The Sirius Institute, the organization helping with the odd birth plan, says on their website.
"It is about reconnecting as humans with the dolphins so we can coexist in this world together and learn from one another," the mom-to-be told the Observer. It brings "peace, comfort and strength to the mother and baby during labour," she added.
This is a very bad idea.
Although dolphins can be incredibly intelligent and are often affectionate toward and form bonds with humans (they have been know to give gifts to people in Australia, team up with Brazilian fishermen, and blow fun bubble rings, for example), the animals can be incredibly dangerous, too.
They try to rape and drown people; they gang rape their females and sometimes hold them hostage for weeks; they murder baby porpoises for fun; they kill the babies of rival male dolphins, because as soon as her child dies, a female dolphin is ready to be raped and impregnated immediately.
Unless the dolphins are raised in captivity and specifically taught how to interact safely with humans, they are still wild animals that can weigh up to 600 pounds.
"My professional opinion: this has to be, hands down, one of the worst natural birthing ideas anyone has ever had (and that is saying a lot)," marine biologist and Discover blogger Christie Wilcox writes. "DEAR GOD. NO. JUST. NO."
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Nurse Ratched
2:10 Tue Aug 25
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Years ago I read a story about naturalists working on the coast of Scotland who were baffled to witness dolphins attacking harbour (I think) seals out at sea. The dolphins would barge them, throw then up in the air out of the water, appear to 'throw' them to each other, stalk and chase them, etc.
The naturalists were coming up with all sorts of possible explanations for why the dolphins might be doing this except the one theory that seemed blindingly obvious to me: the dolphins were bullying the seals for fun. Just because they could. Maybe, like humans, they can be horrible bastards as well as clever.
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Mr Kenzo
2:02 Tue Aug 25
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Dolphins are proven rapists, Nazi's of the Sea
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Nurse Ratched
2:00 Tue Aug 25
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Where the dolphin failed, the lion will not.
Never send a fish* to do a cat's job.
(*yes, I fecking KNOW it's techjically a mammal, but it's a STUPID mammal that decided to go back to the SEA, so it ain't winning many games of Scrabble, is it?)
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chim chim cha boo
1:57 Tue Aug 25
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Nurse Ratched 1:43 Tue Aug 25
See yourself as an 'escaped lion' then do you Nursey?
*cheeky wink*
Although I do realise it wasn't actually an euphemism and she really literally hopes I get savaged to death by an escaped lion.
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mentor
1:45 Tue Aug 25
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Colchester Zoo is 10 times better than London, where half the visitors should be in a cage.
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Nurse Ratched
1:43 Tue Aug 25
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I hope you get eaten by an escaped lion, Chim.
That's right.
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