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8:15am on Tuesday, 2nd August, 2005:
Burning Bright
Outburst
I went to Colchester zoo yesterday with my younger daughter. The entry price was £13 for me, £7 for her (well, 1p short in both cases). I knew zoos were expensive, but blimey...
Actually, it wasn't bad. They've got some nice, wide pens for some of the animals now, and raised walkways so you can look at things without having to peer through wire or glass that people have put their greasy hands on.
Of course, it wasn't perfect:
I know there are people who complain that keeping animals in captivity is cruel, but I hadn't realised that this cruelty extended to tormenting them with bad punctuation.
Some "tiger facts" that we were told by the zoo:
- White tigers are regular Bengal tigers that carry a recessive gene that makes them white. Otherwise, they're just regular Bengal tigers.
- White tigers have a unique layer of fat to protect them from the cold that other tigers don't have.
- One in ten thousand Bengal tigers is naturally white.
- There are only five thousand tigers left in the whole world.
Zoos, they're so educational.
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