if you are at the Woodland Park zoo, you should feed the birds

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It was very cool and totally worth the one dollar admission -- full of budgerigars and cockatiels and other colorful parrot-type things. Blue walls, and wedges of light -- fun to photograph. Budgies clinging in clusters to the mesh ceiling. They (the humans) gave you a popsicle stick with seeds glued on, to offer for a feeding perch. The cockatiels were at first standoffish, but once I coaxed one to hop onto the stick, it finished the seeds, and knew I must have more around, so stepped onto my hand, bit at my picnic-auth wristband, sidled up my arm. I moved the bird from my shoulder (which is set about with nibbly-looking ears) and to my head, and crouched down so a boy could feed it. Seeds in my hair.

People hooting gently the way the sign said the wild dogs would, and recording it to a camera's video mode.

Tapirs can make a noise like when you make a buzzy squeak with air coming out of the neck of a balloon.