The Zoo animals

Enjoyed a Beautiful day at the Taronga zoo today. It all seemed so normal and usual, humans everywhere, car park full, ques to see animals from up close, to take photos with the koala, or to feed the giraffe, or to admire the elephants. 

Or the rush to see the seal show, booked out, ques to get food, coffees, ice cream, children running around, shrieking with happiness at the playful meerkats digging the dirt, or the naughty chimpanzee jumping from the tree to the pit with leafy branches, throwing back at each other. 

While the graceful zebra stands alone , the giraffe family is grazing together. And at The tiger walk, tigers basking in the afternoon sun, after a sumptuous lunch, yes, the real ones, and one tiger pacing around going round and round, as if in an orbit, made just for him, and a kid saying "I can watch this the whole day", while another was crying on missing out on seeing the baby spider.

Looking at the animals, in captivity, so aloof, graceful, indifferent to the prying curious human eyes though sometimes, it seemed as if they raised their eyebrows, just for a minute to look at us too,  and then turn around to their own kind. 

It seemed quite normal to them too, humans watching them, while they went about their own business of living.

Soon these bus and car loads and ferries full of visitors would leave, and it would be quiet finally,  the sun would hang in there, for a debrief, and to relax, for a while, and then it would be the night time. 

Kids returning to their stuffed toy animals, teething sofiees or cuddly koalas, tired, full of dreams, time for bath, and a story, going to bed, dreaming, of real animals that talk in human tongue, teach them to behave, to obey, to play with mates, and to share and care. 

While the grown ups check their emails, their Twitter feed, watch the news, look at some different 'real' animals, bulls Nd bears,or the vaccines and viruses, and argue and quarrel because they don't want to share, they want things their way, and just for themselves and they don't want to play, unless the game follows their own rules, otherwise they don't care. 

Quite normal. As it was, and as is. Yes, both the human and the zoo lives have returned to normal here.