Vern Update

Since Adam had no school yesterday due to the Rosh Hashana holiday we spent the morning at the Zoo. While we were there we checked on our favorite sufaka, Vern. Not surprisingly Vern had grown again and we spent about 20 minutes watching him drive the rest of his family nuts. Sufaka's are part of the lemur family and have long thing tales. Vern's newest trick is to swing from family member to family member pulling their tales as he swings along.

It was nice and cool yesterday morning so the cats were up and active. We spent some time watching the leopard, the tiger, the lions and the ocelot. In all the years we've been going to the zoo this was the first time we actually saw the ocelot. Adam has always maintained that there wasn't really an ocelot, that they just wanted people to think there was one in the enclosure but yesterday we finally saw him for ourselves.

Also we got our first look at the baby orangutan yesterday. Not sure of the gender but the whole family was in the enclosure yesterday. One of the keepers mentioned that they had just last week returned the mother and baby to the enclosure so it was the first time we'd seen the new arrival. He/she was adorable. I had to laugh when the father kept taking the pacifier away then the baby would steal it back.

All in all a very enjoyable day.