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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I am going to try to break my non-posting rut I have been in and post today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a photo I took last month at the zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Seal<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, there’s the huge moral dilemma<\/a> of keeping animals caged up outside of their habitats. There has been so much documented about how it impacts their mental health so poorly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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