TWIG FAMILY GOES TO ANOTHER ZOO

ONE DAY KNOBBY TWIG CAME HOME AND TOLD THE FAMILY HE HAD LEARNED ABOUT A ZOO THAT WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE THEY VISITED LAST TIME. HE WANTED THE FAMILY TO GO THERE.

FUZZY TWIG SAID, "I DO NOT WANT TO GO WHERE THEY HAVE ANIMALS LOCKED UP IN CAGES. EVEN IF THEY DO HAVE LOTS OF FOOD AND A WARM PLACE TO STAY WHEN IT IS COLD. IT MAKES ME SAD TO KNOW THEY DO NOT HAVE THEIR FREEDOM TO ROAM IN THE FOREST."

TWIGMAN TOLD HER SHE DID NOT HAVE TO GO IF SHE DID NOT WANT TO. AND LEAFY SAID SHE AGREED WITH FUZZY. SHE WOULD STAY HOME WITH FUZZY AND TWIGMAN COULD GO VISIT THE ZOO WITH THE TWO BOYS.

TWIGMAN, THORNY AND KNOBBY WENT TO THE DIFFERENT ZOO. THE FIRST ANIMAL THEY SAW WAS A KOMODO DRAGON. HE WAS REAL NEAT. TWIGMAN TOLD THE BOYS THE KOMODO DRAGON USED TO LIVE IN THE JUNGLE WHERE HE ATE SMALL ANIMALS AND SOME TIMES EVEN ATE PEOPLE. THE KOMODO DRAGON WAS NOT PRETTY TO LOOK AT AND THE BOYS AGREED THEY WERE GLAD HE WAS LOCKED UP WHERE HE COULD NOT EAT THEM.

THEY ALSO SAW A GIRAFFE. HE WAS DOWN IN A PIT WHERE THEY COULD SEE HIM EAT AT THEIR FEET. WHEN THE GIRAFFE STUCK OUT HIS TONGUE TO EAT GRASS AT THEIR FEET THORNY SAID, "WOW! LOOK HOW LONG HIS TONGUE IS. IT IS AS LONG AS FUZZY'S ARM." AND IT WAS. IT WAS ALSO VERY ROUGH. THEY KNEW BECAUSE KNOBBY TOUCHED THE GIRAFFE TONGUE. HE SAID, "IT IS LIKE IT HAS A BUNCH OF NEEDLES ON IT."

THORNY SAID, "LOOK AT THAT LONG NECK. I BET IT HAS A MILLION BONES IN IT." TWIGMAN EXPLAINED THE GIRAFFE NECK HAD THE SAME NUMBER OF BONES WE HAVE IN OUR NECKS. BUT THEY WERE A LOT BIGGER AND LONGER, A LOT LONGER.

WHEN THEY WENT HOME THEY TOLD FUZZY ABOUT WHAT THEY SAW AT THE ZOO AND SHE SAID, "NEXT TIME CAN I GO TOO?" EVERYONE LAUGHED.