San Francisco Zoo

Last winter Jake and I celebrated Christmas with the Criddle clan. As part of the fun festivities we visited the SF Zoo with my nephew Christian. While there we saw some crazy animals. On the left you can see the hippo that surprised us by leaping out of the water when we were about 8 feet away from it. Then there was the Lion House. Everyday in the early afternoon there is feeding time at the Lion House. Everyone is jammed into one room while one by one lions enter their cages and start roaring at the crowd. There are little girls watching from on top of their father's shoulders. A short time later the lion trainers toss a dead white rabbit into each lion cage and--as illustrated in the picture to the right--each white rabbit is
eaten for dinner. While we were watching this horrendous scene we heard one little girl start to cry and ask her dad what was going on. Her father replied, "It's just the food chain." That little girl must be scarred for life.