The Australian Zoo/Steve Irwin Zoo

The Australian Zoo/Steve Irwin Zoo By Jake

Today we went to the Steve Irwin Zoo. It was amazing there. There was tons of animals. First outside of the zoo to get you warmed up there were two zoo keepers with a wombat you could pet. When we were in the zoo we went to the koalas. They pretty much didn't do anything except for sleeping so we went on to the next animal. It was the crocodiles and alligators. They were swimming around in the water looking for food. We went to the tortoises that were around 175 years old. Isn't that amazing! They weren't moving as fast as we thought they would.

The next place we went to was the snake house with tons of snakes. They had the deadliest snake in the world and other deadly snakes. We saw a snake that was the same species as the biggest snake in the world. It was Ginormous!

We came out of the snake house and went to the bird sanctuary. We hoped a bird would land on us, but none did. We saw many species of birds. One of the birds we saw was a laurikeet which is a type of parakeet that always lands in our back yard.

After leaving the bird sanctuary we arrived at the kangaroos. We all petted one including Dave, Joann and Taylor.

We had to rush to the Crocosseum and watch the reptile show. It talked about birds, crocs and snakes. They did a show with the snakes first where a man got picked out of the crowd to come and hold the snakes. Then they had a rubber snake and pretended to bite him. After that the fake paramedics came and put him on a board. Then while carrying him out next to the water they threw him in.

After the snake show they did a bird show. Laurikeets that were trained flew around the stadium to people and did tricks. The bird that I liked the most was a big 5 foot tall bird that I can't remember what its name is. His legs were longer than his body.

After the birds they brought in the big crocodile. The trainer stood on a platform and dropped the chicken and the croc jumped up to eat it. Then they put some chicken on land and the croc came out of the water to eat it and we saw how big it was.

I thought the crocoseum was the best part of the zoo. It was totally awesome!

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