Xander and I go to our local zoo at least once a year. We always overhear something interesting.

So far my favorite things I have overheard are:

- A woman stating that the cranes were doing mating calls because they liked the gong in the Asian part of the park.
- Various small children announcing that the guinea fowl are turkeys/chickens/vultures.
- A pre-teen girl repeatedly asking what was in an enclosure while a girl in her group read the sign aloud right next to her. She never did figure out what she was looking at.
- A small child stating that they thought the red panda looked like a skunk. I could understand a raccoon, but I still can't figure out what kind of skunk he saw that looked like a red panda.

The second place favorite goes to:

- A woman who kept yelling over the handler as she was doing her show wanting to know what the animal was. The handler and several members of the audience told her, repeatedly, it was an aardvark. When someone in her own group told her it was an aardvark she replied, "That's what I heard too, but I want to know!" Ultimately she left the show without ever accepting that the animal was an aardvark.


The winner is this gem I just heard this weekend:

- Squirtle is a fish and an ice type. That's why the guy was able to catch it by the polar bear exhibit.