Going To The Zoo

It was a warm sunny Wednesday morning. My class and I went to the zoo. We had been trying all year to fill up our marble jar for our good behaviour.

We looked at amazing animals on our way to the meerkat enclosure. There were big rocks, sandy grounds and small tunnels in their enclosure. They looked so inquisitive, cute and cuddly. We tried to pat their soft fur, but they boldly crawled away.

There was one meerkat, furiously looking over the enclosure, looking out for any attacks.

Finally, we had to go, but two little baby meerkats came crawling over to us. They used their hands to dig holes on the ground. They looked like they were looking for treasure. After a little while, we had to leave the meerkats' enclosure to go to see the next animal.

The next animal we wanted to see was the spider monkey.
Step by step, we got closer to the spider monkeys' enclosure. Finally, we made it. They had long furry tails, colourful fur and their eyes were the size of marbles.  One monkey looked like it was meditating even though it was sleeping.There long heavy ropes and wire cages surrounding them, and big wooden poles standing in their enclosure. The monkeys were leaping onto the cage wire, sleeping and using their tails to hang onto their food.

Sadly, we had to move onto the next animal.

The last animal we saw was the Red Panda. As we got close to the Red Panda enclosure, I saw a beautiful lot of nature surrounding me. I only saw one Red Panda. It was sleeping on a leafy tree branch. The Red Panda's fur had a touch of maroon on its back, with black and white around its face and tail. It looked cute and cuddly.

After that, we had to go and get ready to leave.

When we got outside the entrance of Hamilton Zoo, I said to myself, “I had a lot of fun and, hopefully, we can come back here another day.”

Hochstetter's Frog

The Lost Tigers

One sunny afternoon,  Zoey and Rex went to the zoo with their parents to see the baby tigers that had been born two weeks ago.

They had been walking around for a  period of time, when Zoey asked, “Can we go see the baby tigers now?”

Zoe's Mum replied, “Sure, that's why we came here in the first place."

They slowly walked over the wooden footpath and to the tiger cages.

When they got there, they saw a sign saying that the baby tigers had run away from their cage, so Rex suggested, “Why don’t we go and find the lost tigers?”

“I think that's a great idea,” said his dad.

The family split up and searched for the lost tigers.

Zoey went to look in the monkey enclosure. She saw something move behind the rocks. She went for a closer look. There it was - a baby tiger, but Zoey didn’t know how to get it out so she called for a zoo keeper to take it out.

Zoey went to find Rex. She found him by the giraffe enclosure. “Hey, Rex, guess what I found - one baby tiger."

Rex replied, “Well done, but I asked one of the zoo keepers how many tigers there were. She told me that there were three.”

Mum and Dad came running towards them, saying that they had found two baby tigers - one in a lady's purse, looking for something to eat, and one in the meerkat enclosure.

“Well done, guys. We have found  all the baby tigers,” said Rex.

Mum said, "That was a big day, and, now that the tigers are safe, the zoo keepers might want to keep an eye on the baby tigers. I think we should go home now.”