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Another Day at Chester Zoo

By Hannah the Giraffe

Hi, my name’s Hannah Giraffe and as you can probably tell, I am a Giraffe. This is my blog about yet another day at Chester Zoo.

 It suddenly became very noisy and I soon realized that Clayton Hall Business and Language College had come yet another year! The noise of screaming and shouting really irritated me but it is all worth it because, as usual, we get lots of visitors in our enclosure; it’s not a surprise! This meant we got more food and we got to play about. However, it’s boring staying in our enclosure all day and all night. I just wanted to break free, live life on the edge.

 So I decided to escape.

I started to wonder round in the enclosure planning my escape and I thought of disguising myself as a human. I got some straw that I eat and placed it on my head. I made sure that none of the other giraffes grassed on me and then I set off on my adventures.

The first animals I went to were the rhinos, there were two of them just lying around and chilling. I met some Clayton Hall Business and Language College students there and we went off to see the Meerkats and Porcupines.

 I helped the humans answer some of their questions they had in their booklet, then we went to the Asian Elephants and filled in some more questions. I was very surprised that no zoo keepers or any other humans realized that I had escaped but they did keep on staring at me, I wonder why?

After that, we visited the indoor monkeys and the humans took lots of photos of them.

Here is one of the photos they took of some in the enclosure…

 We went back to the elephant enclosure and we listened to an animal talk because the humans had to fill in some more questions.

When we were walking back, this small human came running up to me and started hugging me. The humans said her name was Amy and they said she loved giraffe’s lots and lots! I think it was my lucky day.

We soon went on to the bat cave but I had to duck down when we went to the entry because I was too tall! However, when we got into the proper bit, it was all very high and I fitted in. All the bats were flying around in the pitch black room but they could still see because they aren't blind although there is a saying which is, ‘as blind as a bat’ which isn't true. They also have very sensitive hearing so they know whether they are going to bump into another bat because they make very precise noises that only the other bats can hear.

After a long time in the dark, we finally got back and because we loved it so much, we went in again. It wasn't as good as the first time because we knew what was coming.

 Next we went on to the butterflies and the room was so steamy that when the humans took photos of the butterflies their cameras steamed up.

This is my favourite part now; we all went to the giraffe’s enclosure and they met all of my friends and we sat down and had a rest because we had been walking for about an hour. I must have fallen asleep because when I woke up there were no humans to be seen; at least I’d had a good long sleep. I know this because it was quite dark when I woke up. I think the humans went off to the tigers and komodo dragons to finish off their booklets and then I heard a loud noise. This only meant one thing; Clayton Hall Business and Language College had finally gone home. Hooray, some peace and quiet.

That’s all for today but I will see you another time, Hannah Giraffe out…