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Originally Posted by allen_kcCard
We got to camp overnight there with my son's scouting troop. We were put into the aquarium/penguin exhibit to sleep, I slept in the aquarium part because the penguins lunar cycle was setup where there was only like an hour of darkness at the time and I didn't want to fight those bright lights all night.
The next morning we got a private tour of the zoo before they opened and they took us into the big cats exhibit before they were outside. I remember the workers happened to be getting the big male lion fed or moved...not sure, we couldn't actually see it...but that thing was right on the other side of a big metal gate/wall from us and it roared and growled so loud I could feel it the vibration in my chest. I was unnerved by just hearing how powerful that thing sounded and nervous around those cages for the rest of the time we were in it.
Was really cool. That new exhibit was just being started on I think, was about 3-4 years ago.
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I was in the Denver Zoo once when a lion let out a big roar, and there is definitely something imbedded in humans that reacts to that. Zoo or not, I wanted to vacate the area immediately.
Props to my distant ancestors who roamed around with free-range lions.