What does one do a Saturday when the sun is shining and summer’s finally arrived in Sweden? Drink beer on the lawn? Party away at a festival? Start an Irish cover band? Stay indoors watching movies and slaving away at hobby applications or game projects? Well, those are all viable options but not true this particular Saturday. Instead, I tagged along with some friends to the KolmÃ¥rden Zoo!

I get childishly giddy at zoos. I love watching animals, and prior to this I hadn’t been to KolmÃ¥rden since I was a wee kiddo. Imagine my surprise when all animals were either
a) sleeping, or
b) hiding someplace, sleeping.
Click the images for larger versions. Sorry, but I don’t have zoom on my camera; you’ll have to do with barely decent pics.

Does this look like a pack of wolves to you? Okay, at least the waterfall’s rather gorgeous.

Can you see any snow leopards? In hindsight I can tell you that the lazy buggers are sleeping in the little shed at the back.

Have you ever seen such a stoned ram? Or whatever it is…

Bloody slackers! Sleeping on the job! To illustrate my point further, I put together a little collage.

I call this piece See What I Can Do with Cut ‘n Paste and Emboss. Here you can notice a slacky vulture, a bunch of slacky prairie dogs, a donkey that stood like that for 15 minutes without moving an inch – and other animals too lazy to even move about.

But okay. It wasn’t all dull and motionless animals. The dolphins rocked, and after a brief shower we did see some of the cool animals:

   
For the city-dwellers: what we see above is a pair of playful kitties, a large kitty, some teddies and…um. A comic book character with adamantium claws. Damn, I wish I hadn’t skipped my biology classes.

And we saw a very friendly antelope thingie as well.

“Hey, what’s that over there?”

“Maybe they have food?”

You ought to be happy that I didn’t go for a bad ant-elope joke…

“Give me food, or I’ll come up there and bite your legs off!” Well, frankly my deer, I don’t give a damn. (I bet you wish I had gone for the ant-elope joke instead, huh?)

All in all, that was a great visit to the zoo, even if I just got the briefest glimpse of a wolf.

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