When I think of going to the zoo, one of my mom’s favorite stories about my childhood sticks out. Like many parents, my mom would teach me all the sounds an animal makes. As we visited each animal she asked me what sound they made. When we got to the giraffes, I would stretch my neck to look like them. It’s interesting that people go to the zoo not only to look at animals, but to act like them.
I feel like I went to the Indianapolis Zoo quite often when I was little, but I don’t have very many concrete memories about it. I think my favorite part of the zoo was the dolphin show. There were “splash zone” seats right up by the tank where if you were lucky you’d get splashed by a jumping dolphin passing by. Of course, the view wasn’t as great as sitting up higher, so we’d switch off. I think I craved some sort of interactivity, but still knowing I was safe. I also remember liking the monkeys, just because there were so many kind and they always seemed to be “playing.”
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