I took a run to the zoo. Today the weather was unusually clouded and murky, and everything looked more mysteriously beautiful than it does in our everyday glare.
Inside the zoo I visited the coatis and the slender loris, and then stumbled upon an area I've never found in my several visits. Yes, it was Outsize Bird World. And in it was a pair of secretary birds, perhaps the most unlikely looking birds I've ever seen, an amalgamation of chicken, pheasant, seagull and hawk stuck unconvincingly on top of a pair of heron's legs and dressed in knee-length black trousers.
If I ever try to make my way back there, I will no doubt find that they have disappeared without trace.
Inside the zoo I visited the coatis and the slender loris, and then stumbled upon an area I've never found in my several visits. Yes, it was Outsize Bird World. And in it was a pair of secretary birds, perhaps the most unlikely looking birds I've ever seen, an amalgamation of chicken, pheasant, seagull and hawk stuck unconvincingly on top of a pair of heron's legs and dressed in knee-length black trousers.
If I ever try to make my way back there, I will no doubt find that they have disappeared without trace.
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