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Too funny about your breakfast! I guess a cookie is OK if you MEANT to have fruit!
I've never seen the lion up on that rock! That would be so cool to catch him scaling that! Guess he wanted some alone time? Maybe the lioness had been nagging him about how much he sleeps.
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Another great safari! We've had a similar incident on a safari with the bull elephant. Poor kids really look at us adults like we've lost our minds laughing at the poor elephant. Love the photo of the lion up on that rock. By the way, we had that same nutritious breakfast while at WDW.
The new sweet shop looks very good with lots of great choices! Your second time on KS was more successful and at least this time it was mostly frontal shots and lots of great closeups! That's bizarre with the elephant and the extra leg!
I really like this photo! I think he/she was waiting for you to pose for the perfect shot!
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Another great safari! We've had a similar incident on a safari with the bull elephant. Poor kids really look at us adults like we've lost our minds laughing at the poor elephant.
Yep, that's what we had. It's times like that I'm very glad we don't have kids and I don't have to think of what to say to them...
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Love the photo of the lion up on that rock. By the way, we had that same nutritious breakfast while at WDW.
Well heck, if you can't have something like that while you're on vacation, then when can you?
Monday 27 February – part three: “Mr. Gorilla, would you like to tell me about your childhood?”
After our safari, we then made our way into Pangani… oh I mean Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail. There are still some signs showing the old name, so it’s easy to get confused… There was some neat action in the aviary…
… although Mark was more interested in getting a shot of something else going on in here….
We got close-up with the zebras and the meerkats…
When we got to this section, we ended up chatting to Alex who was stationed here for ages. She was explaining to us that she had studied psychology, but now she wanted to study animal psychology. That made for some jokes, with Mark saying “Mr. Gorilla, would you like to tell me about your childhood?” Classic! She also told us that some of the meerkats have got different dye colours on, as there’s no other way to identify them.
Then we got on to discussing the behaviour of the gorillas. Apparently, when they don’t like the noise from the visitors, they throw their own faeces at the glass… nice! And they went through a phase of doing the same at anyone in green… that would be the Cast Members then, although apparently they did score a direct hit on a guest as well. As we said, I bet that was one interesting dry cleaning claim…
However, the funniest story Alex told us had to be about the male gorilla who just decided he wanted his wicked way with the female… right up against the glass where all the visitors were watching. Apparently, she had a child come up to her and ask “what’s that gorilla doing?” She couldn’t think what to say, so just said “you need to go and ask your adult…” Now I bet that was an interesting conversation!
When we got to the gorillas, the first one we saw wasn’t very active…
One was hiding…
… but I really lucked out with this guy!
Look at this one – sitting in a bucket!
Once we were done there, we headed through the new part of Harambe, and I happened to check the Disney app, and discovered the safaris now had a 75 minute wait – even before 10:00am!
As we walked towards Asia, look who we found!
We found a Photopass photographer, so stopped for some shots…
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Oh Alex is a gem! I love chatting with those guys. I think so often guests walk right on past and miss such a great opportunity. Very good stories you got from her!! I can't imagine seeing those gorillas like that!!
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And the extra leg.... hahaha!!
By the way, we had that same nutritious breakfast while at WDW. 
I mean Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail. There are still some signs showing the old name, so it’s easy to get confused… 
Apparently, she had a child come up to her and ask “what’s that gorilla doing?” 
She couldn’t think what to say, so just said “you need to go and ask your adult…” Now I bet that was an interesting conversation! 
you do not try to pet a bird! 
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