Magdeburg Zoo

Every year my host family goes to the zoo on the 26th of December. This year I got to tag along. Not much happened so this blog really will be mostly pictures but the animals were pretty active and really didn't hide that much. They really put on a show for us . I guess the animals in Germany are more active than the ones in the United States. Also, at least at the Magdeburg zoo, the zoo puts much less space between you and the animals. For instance, the penguin cage literally just had a short fence between us and the penguins. No plexi-glass or wide dugout. Just a little fence that I could have easily jumped over. Needless to say, I did not jump this fence but it was cool to be so close to the animals.

It was a pretty cloudy day when we went and the zoo itself wasn't too colorful so this guy really "popped" when we saw him.

This right here is a tapir. It is a pretty sizable animal about the size of a very large pig. What's funny is it made this little high pitched chirp the entire time we were there. Such a large animal with such a small voice.

Giant guinea pig! 

Porcupine

In da jungle, the mighty jungle...