Here’s how the Houston Zoo is keeping its residents safe:
The Houston Zoo has turned itself into a type of Noah’s Ark.
Animals of all sorts banded together as Houston prepares for Hurricane Rita. Picnic benches, garbage cans and other potential flying objects were fastened and secured. A protective fence is in place around the carousel.
Zoo spokesman Brian Hill says animals have been given some unusual accommodations. Geese, ducks and chickens roomed together in one of the zoo men’s rooms, which don’t have windows.
Turkeys were weathering the hurricane in a women’s rest room.
Maned wolves and ant-eaters were shacking up with the tenants of the Siberian tiger section.
I hope one of our local media outlets will do a more in-depth story after all this is over, because I’d love to know what arrangements were made for the rest of the Zoo’s inhabitants.
UPDATE: KHOU-11’s story has a couple of pictures.
