DAY 130

Nothing out of the ordinary happened today, except I kept falling asleep, because of all the alcohol that I had last night of course. One thing was nice though, well I don’t know about the actual task, but the fact that I got to sit down for it. For a majority of the morning Lawrence and I had to sort through baby chicks. Now this doesn’t sound bad, and it isn’t that bad, but still isn’t the most exciting thing to do. What we had to do is take the baby chicks from one crate and separate them into two crates, bad and good. Oh, by the way they’re dead if you’re wondering. The gross part was, how we knew if they were bad or not is if they’re green, but you have to check by looking at their butts. So basically I got to stare at baby chicks asses for a couple of hours. Now when I say they are bad they aren’t actually rotten or anything, they just cant be feed to the animals. Except the crocodiles, so the chicks that are labelled “bad” are actually the crocodile’s food. Another thing that happened today was that the crow was much more talkative today then usual. Yes actually the zoo has two crows, one that is a Black Crow (which is the kind we have in the US), and a Pied Crow, which I think is from around here, but I could be wrong. Anyways, the Pied Crow talks more than the Black Crow, though he does his fair chair himself. The Pied Crow says (and this is spelled phonetically) Ah-Wa, which means “ NO!” in one of the South African languages. There are actually 11 official languages of South Africa, the 3 main ones being, English, Afrikaans, and Zulu. Both the crows are actually very good at impersonations. There best one is this one that sounds like a mother telling her child that they have to go and the child starts whining, not wanting to go. The best part is that they can make it sound like the two people are getting farther and farther away, like there leaving the zoo or something. The first couple times I heard this I actually thought it was happening and would look up from what I was doing to look for the mother and the child. They can also talk to you, like real conversations. Apparently crows, like cockatoos and parrots have a brain as advanced as a 4-5 yr old, so if you walk past their cage they will come up to you and say “hello”, if you say hello back, they will say “what you doing,” after you tell them what your doing they say “how are you,” you answer them and then ask them how they are and they will either say “bad” or “good” depending on the day, sometimes they will both say the same thing and sometimes they won’t. But the best part is after they say good or bad, they will then say “thank you,” and if you say thank you after you say good or bad, they say “your welcome.” So they’re actually very polite crows, they will also say “thank you” after you give them something to eat. They hole thing is actually quite amusing.


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