Today I had the best BS111(biodiversity and ecology) practical ever! We got on a coach at about ten and went to the zoo! I mean how cool is that! the zoo!
And we went round! and saw lions! and tigers! and giraffes, and elephants (no gireleffants though) and sealions and it was sqeeeeeee
Childishness aside, it was actually a very informative trip(it was kinda a behind teh scenes tour, put on for the university, which has close ties with the zoo), we went to a range of enclosures and the guide told us what it was designed for, the features it had to optimise it for teh animals, they also explained the types of breeding programs and what was being done to increase numbers of the animal, the ways in which they were being trained(not circus training, but leik trained to accept blood tests and medical attention and stuff)
We also went and saw the pump room of the sea lion enclosure, and it was all rather interesting, they pump like 6 million gallons of water through a week( not really sure, Hard to hear with all the whirrrrinng and stuff) Colchester also apparantly has the largest underwater tunnel in teh UK of 24 metres. ONLY 24? Come on people, how are we supposed to create marine cities if you can't even get a decent underwater tunnel made?(though this might have been just out of zoos, again, not sure)
So yeah, it was fun, if very brief(not much chance to look at teh pretteh animalz!)
Anyway, back to procrastinating and doing coursework. Eventually
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