Zoo Sauvage – Quebec
We went to the zoo on a school day. Class ended early that day. We had to be on the bus at 11:30. We received a paper bag lunch. Sandwiches, a juice box, macaroni salad, and a cookie. We ate on the bus. It was a two-hour drive to the zoo. I read more of my book.
When we arrived at Zoo Sauvage we started by watching a film, telling us about the animals. Then suddenly there are snakes on the screen and everyone feels something brush the back of their legs from under the seat. Everyone screamed. It was very funny. The best part was when the snake was hunting a mouse, you knew what was going to happen. When we were attacked from under our seats a second-time people still screamed. Then it was winter and we saw the hares and the wolves, and it began snowing in the theatre. So when spring came, and we saw all the baby animals on screen, we got wet in the inside April showers. It was a fun experience, if not a little overdone.
After we had an hour to wander a small section of the zoo. We started in a mixed forest area with a lot of the animals you can see your backyard; rabbits, raccoons, foxes. We stopped at an underground section to see the inside of a beaver dam. Very dark, hard to get a photo, because the flash bounces off the glass and reflects in the photo. So the photo’s are very dark. Then we went and saw the seals, that was sad. It was like a kiddie pool, and it wasn’t clean at all, the water was very dirty. But just next to them were the polar bears. And they were in a much nicer habitat, though it was rather small. We watched there until we had to go catch the train.
After the hour, we could catch a cage/train ride that took us through the fenced off back of the zoo. Where there were different types of animals roaming free. The train took just over an hour. The train was like going through the prairies. We saw elk, caribou, wolves, deer, black bears, water buffalo, bison, prairie dogs and more. It was neat.
When that was over we went through the mountain area of the zoo. There was a grizzly bear, but he was sleeping, a cougar, bobcat, coyotes, and mountain goats. We passed through this area very quickly. The only animals cooperating for photo’s were the coyotes, because an employee was in the habitat.
The smallest part of the zoo was Asian animals. There were three exhibits, red-crowned crane, Japanese snow macaques, and tigers. I loved the macaques and tigers. The macaque walk had all these little things for people to try. You could climb up and down obstacles, you could swing on a rope or slide down a pole. The monkeys were cute. Someone had dropped their camera into the exhibit, and one of the macaques had it and was trying to eat it or break the ‘shell’ for the food inside. I feel really sorry for whoever dropped their camera.
Then the saddest part of the rather small zoo was the tigers. There were four tigers in the pen, and really they just laid there. After seeing the tigers we had seen all there was to see. We tried to find an ice-cream shop, but they had all closed. So we went back to the gift shop and saw a little squirrel trying to steal food from the garbage can. Then we went back on the bus.
