A great day as a zoo keeper!

I had agreat and remarkable day as zoo keeper in the Adelaide zoo today. I spent 7 and 1/2 hours working there as a keeper. WOW!
And what did we do:

• cleaned the hippo's cages (dirty and huge poos!)
• cleaned the giraffes cages (small poos but hundreds of them everywhere)
• gave showers to hippos and fed them with carrots and "washed" their teeth with a water (no toothpaste used)
• fed giraffes with leaves and carrots (they have blue and loooong tongues)
• fed simpanses with sultanas (lovely animals)
• fed lemurs who came to sit on our lap (so close, so long white-black tailes, wonderful)
• fed lions and African painted dogs with a horse meat (poor horse), the lions were roaring, I was a bit scared...
• scratced a tiger (so wonderful fur she has)
• fed the small monkeys (the one that Pippi Longstocking has) with living worms (the monkeys just sat on my shoulder and munched the worms just in the side of my ear...), I was not scared but I felt that some of the worms crawel under my t-shirt...

What A WONDERFUL gift this day was. I am so grateful, Thank You, my dear friends!

Carrots, and some more carrots and MORE CARROTS...

These nice little fellows were so cute and well-behaving friends:
they are lemurs from Madagaskar

500 kg is being set on this one foot...

These were greedy to have their lunch

Even some animals The Finns might have seen in Finland:
the otters, the right one is blind fellow but can live a good life in a zoo.

This used to be a horse...

The zoo vet was doing some surgery for a emu-look-like-bird called bustard.

Sultanas given to a close relative of humans...

This little fellow was one of my favourites.

Stop using palm oil, otherwise we'll lose these wise, rare creatures! Read more (in Finnish)