A Zoo Day

Today I had a professional development day. But that isn't what I'm going to write about.

It was at the Perth Zoo and at lunchtime I got to wander past several enclosures. I spent most of my limited time in the African Savannah section. Since it was very cold and sporadically raining I felt sorry for these desert animals.
I stopped by the baboons and watched them groom themselves. It was scary how one of them did exactly what I have done on occasion, pick through each hair and look for split ends. I am only one level more evolved because I don't actually eat what I find.
A staring contest with a cheetah was my next stop. It had a killer stare (no pun intended) and licked its lips a couple of times to psych me out. Strangely it stopped doing that when I poked my own tongue out at it. It won the contest, but only because it had all day to stare and I had a lunch break.
Looking at the giraffe and two zebras stand idly or boredly wander the fence line, I wondered what we would call having humans in pens and animals staring at us? Not a zoo, surely.
Perhaps prison.
Or Hell.

I was glad to return to my seminar and its complexities. Better to have to fight for food than have it thrown carelessly at you...