Mini Jam youngsters enjoy a day at the zoo

By Jacob Weller, Aged 9

WHILE everyone was getting ready for the Open Day Visitors, the Mini Jammers on site were off on their travels with a day visit to Colchester Zoo.

We arrived at about 10.30am and first we went to see the big and hairy Orangutan in his enclosure. He was leaning on an upside down banana box looking at us.

It was getting near lunchtime and we were supposed to be going to the sea lions and penguins but my brother Henry had gone off with another group so we sat down and had a snack.

Eventually we found him and carried on towards the penguins and sea lions and looked at some of the adoption boards including the one that had been adopted by the Sub Camp back at site.

When we got there we found lots of different types of fish and when we had all seen the penguins we next visited the elephants, giraffes and zebras.

They were all together in a enclosure although the elephants were gated up and so was the giraffe because she had just had a baby two months ago.

The baby giraffe was born in May which is the same month as my birthday.

Next we went to see the Pygmy Hippos but they where in cages so we looked at the 10,000 termites all working. They were scurrying around their homes.

Before we left we managed to see the Spider Monkeys swinging then we had a little peek at Sasha the white tiger who was lazing around before we looked at our final animal; the lions.

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