I have not posted in a while – in over a month I believe – and the longer I go without posting, the harder it seems to want to post.
So I am going to try to break my non-posting rut I have been in and post today.
Here is a photo I took last month at the zoo.
This seal kept swimming by my son and every couple of times he would swim by he’d open his mouth and kind of lunge at my son. There were a couple people and kids there watching the seal, but he only did it to my son.
We were behind glass and safe, obviously, but I’m quite impressed I actually managed to get a shot of the seal with its mouth wide open and ready.
I struggle with visiting zoos. On the one hand, it’s great to be able to see so many animals up close and most zoos do a lot to highlight the importance of conservation efforts, so it’s a good learning experience.
On the other hand, there’s the huge moral dilemma of keeping animals caged up outside of their habitats. There has been so much documented about how it impacts their mental health so poorly.
Perhaps, in a couple of decades, we won’t believe that zoos even existed – how cruel they seemed and how backwards we were to keep them for so long.