The Birmingham Zoo

Flat Aubrey’s friends had told her about their fun visits to the Birmingham Zoo and how they saw tigers, elephants, and giraffes. Apparently, the zoo seemed to be an exciting place to visit and see exotic animals up close. Aubrey decided to go to the Birmingham Zoo on a day that it wouldn’t be crowded with people. The perfect day had arrived because it was extremely cold outside in the low thirty degrees, so people more than likely wouldn’t visit the zoo. That day Flat Aubrey made her way to the zoo and she had hoped to have an experience worthy to boast about.

Aubrey had went through the admissions office and the nice employee advised her to visit the animals in the buildings, because the areas would be much warmer inside. Therefore, she had decided to visit the primates building first, where she wanted to see the gorilla first. Sadly, the big gorilla wasn’t anywhere in sight that day, so she moved on to the various types of monkeys. Flat Aubrey read the information labels beside each monkey’s area. Their eyes had stared back at hers through the glass, and they ran along the tree limbs playing. Aubrey had never seen monkeys like them, or ever thought they existed. She ventured through the rest of the primates building to the exit. The next building belonged to the predators, which was across the zoo.

Aubrey visited the elephants on her walk to the predators building. The elephants were gigantic and there were two, while Aubrey had thought there would only be one. Was one a boy and the other a girl, Flat Aubrey had wondered? There wasn’t an employee for her to ask, so she would have to ask the admission’s lady when she left. Aubrey had moved on to the primates building, but the glimpse of lions on the left distracted her. Flat Aubrey’s friends didn’t mention the lions to her, but she didn’t care. She had seen an animal they might not have. The male lion had a long mane of hair and it was thick and real dirty. He paced by the gate, while the female lion laid along the glass wall. The lions didn’t look mean or aggressive; they only had appeared to be very strong. Their bodies’ had seemed to be full of muscle, because each muscle pressed through their skin as they moved. Aubrey had spent a long time looking at the lions, and she turned around to enter the predators building. Smaller lions were inside but they hadn’t fascinated Flat Aubrey as the large ones had. There was a tiger that had put on a show for her, where it strolled around the enclosed area close to the glass wall. It had faced her at the glass wall multiple times, and she was stuck on its glow-like eyes. The tiger had strolled around for a few minutes until it went back into its indoor cage. Aubrey visited the hyenas, which were jumpy animals. They trotted to the glass to look at her, while she had stared at them. Aubrey had known the animals hadn’t seen someone like her before. The cold weather was getting hard to bear when she walked outside. It was too cold to be freezing at the zoo, so Aubrey waved goodbye to the lions and they didn’t return the wave. She was back at home before and she had realized that she didn’t ask about the elephants. On the bright side, that gave her a reason to visit the Birmingham Zoo again.