An anteater looks like a cool pet!

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:50 am

If you have had one, what's it like? Are they crazy and hard to control? or are they kinda like ferrets or something where they just run away from you when you try to play with them?... and smell. And what dose their poop look like since all they eat is ants?! Is it like a ball of 1000 dead mushy bugs? These are things i need to know.

Floyd · Post by **Floyd** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:15 am

go in the zoo and ask the wardens.
oh, before you ask, whales are better than octopuses, because they don't evade their tank that easily

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:22 am

Crap... all the zoos where i live (austin, tx) suck... they have cats and dogs.. maybe a gold fish.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:33 pm

Floyd wrote:go in the zoo and ask the wardens.
oh, before you ask, whales are better than octopuses, because they don't evade their tank that easily

Just don't drink the water they swim in.

You might swallow more than water.

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:20 pm

Isaac wrote:all the zoos where i live (austin, tx) suck

Come on up to Ft. Worth. We have one of the best zoos on the planet!

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:30 pm

Kilarin wrote: Come on up to Ft. Worth. We have one of the best zoos on the planet!

Oh you think you're sooo cool with your fancy zoo with living animals.

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:39 pm

I live in Austin and I think that the zoos here suck too. Waco has an ok one, but for the really good ones you have to go to somewhere bigger, like Houston or Dallas/Fort Worth. :p

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:59 pm

san antonio has got some good zoos i hear.
the mexican zoo has people too.

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:32 pm

Isaac wrote:Oh you think you're sooo cool with your fancy zoo with living animals.

Heh, yep!

The Ft. Worth Zoo is classed as one of the best in the world.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:37 pm

10.50 per adult. no wonder they can buy real animals.

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:49 pm

We have a great zoo in Washington DC. s'matter, dontcha watch C-SPAN???

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:53 am

Kilarin wrote:Come on up to Ft. Worth. We have one of the best zoos on the planet!

Gosh. Now think about the joke about the Texan in Hawaii in VonVulcan's thread ...

I've been googling for the best zoos of the world, and so far have come across Atlanta, Singapore, Sao Paolo, San Diego. The Wilhelma of Stuttgart, Germany has about 10.000 animals and 5000 plants, and world famous ape facility and aquarium ... it's pretty close to me, about 50 miles. Then there is Hagenbeck's animal park in Hamburg, Germany, with about 2.500 animals, dubbed 'most beautiful European animal park'.

A nice article about zoos by a 'zoo buff': http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A964948260

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:48 am

Diedel wrote:Now think about the joke about the Texan in Hawaii in VonVulcan's thread

Guilty as charged.

BUT, in this case, it's not ALL braggadocio:

The Zoo has been ranked as a top zoo in the nation by Family Life magazine, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today, and as one of the top zoos in the South by Southern Living Reader's Choice Awards.

Isaac wrote:10.50 per adult. no wonder they can buy real animals.

But annual memberships are cheap, and then you can visit all you want!

Hattrick · Post by **Hattrick** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:18 am

meh, Zoo's are ok but I like our drive through wildlife sanctuary.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:58 am

is everything really bigger in texas???

Immortal Lobster · Post by **Immortal Lobster** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:09 am

Atlanta has a zoo?

it must suck then

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:03 pm

Do anteaters eat fire ants? (Hope they're not too spicy.) If so, I could use some.

Palzon · Post by **Palzon** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:15 pm

Isaac, have you tried the Austin Nature and Science Center? I haven't been in a while, but I recall them having a lot of wildlife.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/ansc/exhibits.htm

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:02 pm

My family's had a membership to the Philadelphia Zoo ever since I was 5 or 6. America's first zoo = pretty cool. They have a new big cats exhibit that I'll have to get around to seeing soon.

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:51 pm

ccb056 wrote:is everything really bigger in texas???

Mainly just the egos.

BUT, we DO have a state park bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:53 am

I read somewhere they made stepping on ants illegal in Germany... would you be allowed to have a pet anteater?

I've never actually heard of a pet anteater before, anyway, though.

Isaac · Post by **Isaac** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:16 am

We used to go here all the time. http://www.gpz.org/
i think it won some kind of zoo award. Im from brownsville texas, and this was one of the best places to hang out down there... or the walmart.

An anteater looks like a cool pet!

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