Zoo Happenings

Numenius’ brother and nephew are visiting from Indiana, so today we went to the Bay Area and went to the Oakland Zoo with them and Numenius’ sister and boyfriend. A few of us took the short cable-car ride over the lions up the hill, which is how we managed to get the angle into the giraffe enclosure.

This is a zoo where many languages are spoken. Middle-class anglos are definitely in the minority, which was fun. We wondered how the demographic might be different at, say, the San Francisco Zoo, which is much larger.