It's been about a year since our last visit, and that seems to be the secret to the kids enjoying the zoo. It was a Zurich holiday today and Bea and Ili whizzed around the zoo highly excited as if they'd never before seen an animal. It was a bit of a "seen it", move on, "seen it", move on, at times, with Ili asking "is it dead?" . . . . but they had a great time. The tropical "Masoala" has a new treetop walkway to ascend—27 degrees on the ground climbing to 34 degrees at the canopy (40 on a summers day!) giving you a good view down over the tropical house, birds, lemurs etc. Nice interactive European frog/toad display in the reptile house with all of the particular frog/toad croaks at the touch of a button, including the midwife toad that we've both heard and found in France (very small little toad). Was all good, and we don't have to visit again until 2014 ;-) and by then the new elephant enclosure will be ready—41 million CHF spent for half-a-dozen elephants and a rhino, and I'm sure they won't appreciate the architectural roof structure. This city has too much money! I wonder how far that sum would go towards elephant conservation.
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