Despite a very impassioned and reasonable argument for zoos in Martel’s Life of Pie, neither Jul nor I are big fans of them. Regardless, much like Red Lobster, you have to go every couple years to remind yourself it isn’t like the pictures. Jul, Lynn, Shan, and the boys headed up to SF last week to the zoo. The company was great, but the zoo was, well, a zoo.
Now I’m a big fan of zoos. I know that they aren’t always the best habitat for animals, but I think we all need reminding that animals are real. So many of the animals in our lives are just pictures in books, but zoos give us the opportunity to see live animals and have a realistic idea of their size and color. My fondest childhood memory is going to see the sea lions in St.Louis when we lived there the year I was 3.