Funny incident at the zoo

[skygazer]

I have no idea what made me think of this but I crack up every time I do.

Several years ago, my then-husband and I went to a zoo. This zoo had a pair of pygmy hippos in two side-by-side enclosures.

The female pygmy hippo was submerged at the bottom of a murky tank of water - you could sort of vaguely see a dark shape and that's about it.

The male pygmy hippo was in the middle of an open area vigorously humping a large rock.

All the families were crowded around the female's enclosure with the parents (in those annoying sing-song voices) saying, "Look, dear, in the water! See the hippo?" while the kids were sort of quizzically pointing into the other enclosure and saying, "What about THAT hippo? I wanna see that one." and the parents replying, "Well, but, look at this one...."

It's one of my fondest memories. :rofl:

[auburngrad82]

1. We had a similar experience at the Atlanta Zoo about 12 years ago

We were visiting the zoo with a friend and we heard this moaning that would have put Moaning Myrtle to shame. Everyone was running so we decided to follow. These two huge turtles were bumping shells, if you know what I mean. And about every thirty seconds or so the one on top would thrust and then stop, moan very very loudly, and then just lay there with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth. Repeat every thirty seconds for the next hour or so until everyone got bored and wandered off.

The memory...

I think I've been scarred for life...

[DS1]

8. Tantric Turtles

nice

[petronius]

11. Tortoise sex is freakin' hilarious

I will never forget seeing and hearing a couple of them going at it at the SD Zoo years ago...

:rofl:

[unpossibles]

2. a little boy goes to the zoo with his mom....

... eventually they get to the elephant pen, and the boy frowns and asks, "mom, what is that hanging from the elephant?"

The mom says, "that's his trunk, dear."

"No! On the other end! What IS that?" the boy whines.

""His tail, son," the mother replies, smiling.

"No, no, no! Right there in front of the tail. What is that?" he asks again, pointing this time.

The mom blushes and pulls him away, saying: "oh, that's nothing, dear. Let's go see the tigers!"

The boy isn't satisfied with her answer, but he knows better than to ask again, so when his dad gets home that night, he begs him to go to the zoo together the next day. So the dad and theboy get to the zoo, and the son drags him straight to the elephant pen.

"Dad, what is that hanging from the elephant?" the boy asks.

The dad says, "that's his trunk, son."

"No! On the other end! What IS that?" the boy whines.

""His tail," the father replies, smiling and shaking his head.

"No, no, no! Right there in front of the tail. What is that?" he asks again, pointing.

The dad looks down at his son and decides to be frank, so he says, "well, son. That is his penis."

The boy gets confused and looks up and says, "his penis? Mom said that was 'nothing'."

The man swells with pride and replies, "well, son, your mother's been spoiled...."

[KitchenWitch]

3. One time when my son was little - I took him to the Minnesota Zoo

This was back when the Zoo still had two Beluga Whales as part of their exhibits. One was male and one was female.

Apparently the male whale was feeling rather randy that day and was chasing the female around the tank with his soldier at full attention. My son asked why he was doing that. I think I responded that he was doing that because he really really really liked the other whale.

:rofl:

[trof]

4. The Bull and the Cow.

We were visiting my father-in-law's farm.
My little girl was around 5 or 6.
The three of us were walking back to feed the cows.
And over by the fence there was this bull.
Mounted on a cow and just going at it.

"Grandpop? What's he doin'?"
"Uh...he just wants to get a better look over the fence."
:rofl:

[Hugin]

5. My Jr.H.S. Earth Science teacher would've said, "It's a NATURAL PHENOMENON." and carried on...

Just like he did when someone 'tooted' in class. :rofl:


Interesting guy, he's partially responsible for my love of Primates...

Whenever we were starting the day's experiments he'd always address safety on the
various pieces of equipment with the phrase;

It takes the average monkey 15 seconds to try _______ with the ______.

For example,

It takes the average monkey 15 seconds before they try sticking a paper clip in the power outlet.
or
It takes the average monkey 15 seconds before they figure out they haven't got the hose connected
to the gas outlet.

Then when you'd mess up he'd say you were better than the monkey because it only took you 10 seconds
to do whatever it was...

Ah, it made me laugh.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. LaraMN talking about Jack licking a llama's tongue at the zoo

ranks as one of the funniest things I have ever read.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6517082

[begin_within]

7. Once on the bus ride at the San Diego Zoo

We were looking at a large enclosure of some kind of exotic goats or yaks from somewhere. Two of them started "doing it" right in front of the whole busload of tourists. A lot of people started laughing, but the bus driver (who is also the narrator of the tour) abruptly stopped her description and drove on.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. At the Minnesota Zoo one day I was in the native animal exhibit

and a couple of mountain lions started doing the horizontal tango, right up close to the glass. Next to me there's a mom and a little boy about 4 years old, and the kid says, "Mommy, what are the kitties doing?" And I thought Mommy was going to yank the kid's arm clean out of the socket as she pulled him away to the next exhibit: "Come on, let's go look at the other animals now." She couldn't get him away from those humping cougars fast enough.

[MissHoneychurch]

10. Ah yes ...

[cloudbase]

12. Not at the zoo,

but at Old Faithful my lovely wife, deciding to be a bit impish, says aloud "Look at all those boilerfish!" I swear, half the people began looking for them.