Nanjing Zoo

On Monday, Jake had school off so we decided to go to the Nanjing Zoo. It was quite the experience. It makes me appreciate American zoos a lot more. People there throw all sorts of food, trash, etc in the animals cages. We got to see pandas, monkeys, ligers....yes I saw a real liger, elephants, giraffes, foxes, lions, tigers. The pandas were pretty uneventful. It was really hot so I don't blame them for just laying there. The monkeys were the craziest of all. Jake and I decided that they were probably at some point or another test/research monkeys. There was this monkey bar contraption that had the 2 ladders that they could climb up on each side, but the part that connects the 2 ladders had broken off. So the monkeys would climb up to the top and sit, then one of the other monkeys would race over and run up the ladder. That would scare the one that was sitting on top of the ladder so he would make a leap over to the other ladder. However he wouldn't quite make it, so he would SLAM into the ladder and fall down. But he wouldn't learn his lesson that time, it happened about 4-5 times while we were there. Crazy! Again I put captions on the pictures, so if you want to read them scroll the mouse over them. Enjoy what zoos in China are like.