The San Diego Zoo is open every day, including holidays. So we went at 9:30 in the morning on Thanksgiving day. We wished all the birds a happy thanksgiving day, starting off with the very pink flamingos that are at the start of their new exhibit, Monkey trails and forest tails. There were smaller birds that looked like kiwis, but they were the same pink color. It must be the food, they must be sneaking the flamingo food that enhances the bird color. Indeed, you are what you eat.
The orangutans were very entertaining, two adults and a baby swinging on the trees and ropes, looking much like a barrel of monkeys. We walked to the back end of the park to visit the polar bears. Being thanksgiving, their enrichment was a pumpkin. We saw the shredded remains floating in the pool. Yes, pumpkin floats.
