Katie

Well, it was at the zoo in a glass cage, but still..uhhhh, and the scary thing is actually that they arn't as red as I had imagined, they actually look more black, so there's just simply no way I'd be able to tell them from any other spider...

But I did enjoy seeing the other animals at Melbourne zoo, where I went with Sarah today,

like this adorable meerkat


and the wallabys


and of course some kangoroos


I did get to see what a real-life wombat looks like, but as these animals are active at night, we only got to see them sleep


a lot of the orangutangs were sleeping as well, after having tucked themselves in under their sheets


I think this was the first time I saw bambo that wasn't i a pot, but I'm not quite sure..


And of course there were a lot of birds as well, we had to watch our heads in the big aviary though


The male Eclectus Parrot was cuddling up (or possibly fighting) with a Kakatu, while the female one of the same species watched them carefully from the hollow tree she had just climbed out of.


The Helmeted Honeyeater has the longest tounge I've seen in a bird, it's att least twice the size of this little birds beek. 


People always talk about the cool black parrots of Australia, I wonder if they mean those Black Kakatus? They are really cool indeed.


Pelikans and Peakoks roam freely around the entire park


I did think that the Gento Penguins at Melbourne zoo were really cute, but the Australian Small Penguins do beat them, they are about the cutest thing I'v ever seen, I'll have to go down to the beaches to see them in the wild someday :)