The Exciting Adventures of Alex: Twycross zoo

While we were down in Leicester we went to twycross zoo!
A interesting thing about twycross zoo is that it is the only zoo in Britain that has bononbos! when we came into the zoo the first thing we noticed were some monkeys! They looked like Golden Lion tamirins but I'm not that sure. Then we found the orangutans!
The next amazing primate (scientific name for the group of animals that monkeys and gorillas belong to ) that we saw was a spider monkey !Then mum made a bee-line for the bonobos. There appeared to be two groups of them (one was inside whilst we were at twycross zoo.) Most of the bonobos were relaxing in the sun but there was a granny bonobo who pretended to be old and frail but sometimes she suddenly started chasing a young and cheeky bonobo who was running around the enclosure at high speed. Then we had our lunch next to the kookaburra cage, which was next door to the ibis cage(This must have confused them ,because they don't live near each other in the wild.) Then we went to the big birds place ,where we saw wildcats(i don't know why they were there)Flamingos,storks, turtles and all sorts of weird birds. Then we went to see the elephants (who were all outside because there was a mother elephant with a newborn baby occupying their indoor habitat.) After that we went to see the leopards which were really cool(one of them was flopped out inside.Mum joked that i should tickle its paws.Naturally i freaked out.)Unfortunately our camera was out of batteries by then.Then we went to see the pride of Asian lions which was brilliant!(Apparently there is only about 300 left in the wild.Eeek.) Then we saw the giraffes which were really cool . One of them stuck its head through the fence and gave me a look up close. I mustn't forget the super cute meerkats .One was standing on a log and keeping watch(it was also looking very cute .)Another was suckling a furry ball of babys(Awww.) Then there was the giant guinea pigs,or capybara .Another cool creature we saw were the Marmosets,which basically looked like Meerkats that needed to go on a diet.
There was also pengwins! A few were hiding in the shade, a couple were soaking up the sun and the really clever ones were enjoying a good swim.
Here are the pictures!

The giant guinea pigs!