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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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

is everything really bigger in texas???

Atlanta has a zoo?

it must suck then

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.