Home A Day at the Zoo Index

This file is about zoos and wild animals, including Big Cats.
Also see Miscellaneous Animals and Bears.

Page Toppers

  • Alligators All Around
    (song by Carole King)
  • All Creatures Great and Small
  • And God created...
  • Animal House
  • At the Zoo
    (song by Simon and Garfunkel)
  • A Day Among the Animals
  • A Day at the Zoo
  • Do the zoo
  • Don't Feed the Animals
  • Don't Monkey around!
  • An Elephant Never Forgets
  • Eye of the Tiger
    (song by Survivor)
  • Everybody's Zooing It!
  • Fox on the Run
    (song by Manfred Mann)
  • Fun at the zoo
  • Funky Fur
  • Getting in the swing of things (monkeys)
  • Going Wild
  • Hangin' Around (monkeys)
  • Hear no evil, Speak no evil, See no evil
  • Humongous! (elephant or hippo)
  • I Am the Walrus
    (song by The Beatles)
  • I Work for Peanuts (elephant)
  • If I Were a Moose
    (song by Fred Small)
  • I'm Wild About...
  • In the Swing of Things (monkey)
  • It's a Jungle Out There
  • It's a Zoo Around Here
  • Just Hangin' Out
  • Just Monkey'n Around
  • Kids at play (baby animals)
  • Let's not forget...(elephant)
  • Life With the Lions
    (song by Billy Bragg)
  • Lion in the Winter
    (song by Hoyt Axton)
  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight
    (song by the Tokens)
  • Lone Wolf
    (song by Jerry Jeff Walker)
  • Look ma! No cavities (Hippo)
  • Look who's at the zoo
  • Monkey Business
  • Monkey See, Monkey Do
  • Monkey Time
    (song by Major Lance)
  • Monkeying around
  • More fun than a tree-full of monkeys!
  • Mr. Zebra
    (song by Tori Amos)
  • Muskrat Ramble
    (song by Louis Armstrong)
  • My Fur-vorite Animal is...
  • No Lion - the Zoo was Grrreat!
  • No more Monkeying around
  • Our little monkey
  • Our private zoo
  • Out of Africa
  • Paws here
  • Please Do Feed the Animals
  • Please Don't Feed the Animals
  • Proudest Monkey
    (song by the Dave Matthews Band)
  • Rain forest Cafe
  • Reach for the stars! (Giraffe)
  • A Real Swinger (monkey)
  • The Reptile House
  • Ride the Tiger
    (song by Jefferson Starship)
  • Safari Hunt
  • Save the Whales
    (song by Country Joe McDonald)
  • See You Later, Alligator
    (song by Bill Haley and the Comets)
  • Splish Splash I was taking a bath
    (Hippo with water splashes)
  • Suburban Safari
  • Swing my way (monkey)
  • Talk to the Animals
  • Tall Tails (giraffe)
  • This Place is a Zoo
  • Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Boy
    (song by Rolf Harris)
  • Too Much Monkey Business
    (song by Chuck Berry)
  • Trip to the Zoo
  • A Trunk full of _____! (love, smiles)
  • Two at the Zoo
  • Urban Safari
  • Walk With the Animals
  • Watch out zoo, here we come
  • We did the Wild Thing
  • We belong in the Zoo
  • Welcome to the Zoo
  • What a Zoo!
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Wild!
  • Wild and Crazy
  • A Wild and Crazy Place
  • Wild Child
  • Wild One
  • Wild Thing
  • Wonderful Zoo
  • Wondering Where the Lions Are
    (song by Bruce Cockburn)
  • You can fly, you can fly! (monkeys)
  • You're Grrrrrrreat! (tiger)
  • Zany Zoo
  • Zoo Day Fun
  • Zoo Fun
  • Zoo Hullabaloo
  • Zoo time
  • Zoo-pendous
  • A "Zoo"per day
  • A "Zoo"per time
  • Zoobilee
  • Zooperstars
  • Zoorassic Park
  • Zoorific
  • A Zoo-tiful day

Also use these with animal stickers for non-zoo pages (i.e. A Day at the Zoo for kids being rowdy.)

Quotes

Zoo Fun

(copyright Beverly Qualheim, used with permission)

As we go walking through the Zoo
This is what we'll see,
Elephants and hippos,
And monkeys in a tree.

Tigers roaring loudly,
Giraffes who stand so high,
Dolphins swimming freely,
And parrots in the sky.

So let's all go walking,
Having fun the whole day through,
As we go on our field trip,
To the friendly city zoo.

The Zoo

At the zoo we saw a bear
He had long, dark fuzzy hair
We saw a lion in a cage.
He was in an awful rage.

We saw the big, long-necked giraffe,
And the silly monkeys made us laugh
But my favorite animal at the zoo
Is the elephant - how about you?

The Elephant Poem

(by Wayne Hepburn, placed in the Public Domain 11 Sep 1997)

Elephants are lovely guys,
They're good and true and tell no lies.
They don't take more than they can eat,
And always watch where they put their feet.

They don't play with electric wires;
I never have heard of them starting fires.
They live healthily, they don't smoke
An Elephant is a kindly bloke.

Elephants take care of their young,
And rarely speak with angry tongue.
When in school, they do not cheat,
They walk in lines which are quite neat.

They don't beat up on smaller folks,
Don't care if they're the butt of jokes.
They don't fret, what wear today,
Look simply splendid all in gray.

Super strong yet very nice,
They're really not afraid of mice.
I've tried and tried but I just can't
Find anything better than the Elephant.

Eletelephony

(E. Richards)

Once there was an elephant
Who tried to use the telephunt -
No! No! I mean an elephone
Who tried to use the telephone -

(Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right.)

However it was, he got his trunk
Entangled in the telephunk;
The more he tried to get it free,
The louder buzzed the telephee.

(I fear I'd better drop this song
Of elephop and telephong!)

Holding Hands

(Leonore M. Link)

Elephants walking
along the trails
Are holding hands
by holding tails,
Trunks and tails
are handy things
When elephants walk
in circus rings.

A Kangaroo

(Julie Holder)

A kangaroo
One afternoon
Jumped so high
It jumped over the moon!

It jumped so far
It jumped so high
It bumped its head
Upon the sky.

Down it fell
Spinning round
And bumped its bottom
On the ground.

Mister Giraffe

(Geoffrey Lapage)

O Mister Giraffe, you make me laugh,
You seem to be made all wrong;
Your head is so high up there in the sky
And your neck is so very long
That your dinner and tea, it seems to me,
Have such a long way to go,
And I'm wondering how they manage to know
The way to your tummy below.

The Giraffe's Song

With a neck so long,
To hear his song,
You'll have to stay,
Around all day.
He begins his tune,
Just before noon.
And it comes out right,
About midnight!

The Hippo

The hippo should watch her weight.
It's not healthy to be fat.
But who would ever have the nerve
To tell a hippo that?

The Zebra

Thank goodness for the zebra!
He's a special animal, you see;
For without the striped zebra,
What word would start with Z?

Rhinoceros

A rhinoceros, rhinoceros.
Sometimes he makes a dreadful fuss.
He has a big horn on his nose.
He snorts and rumbles as he goes.
He's very long and very wide.
He has a very wrinkled hide.
He has big hoofs on his four feet.
We feed him grass and hay to eat.
A rhinoceros, a rhinoceros
Is surely not a pet for us.

The Rhinoceros

(Hilaire Belloc)

Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone,
You do not take my fancy in the least;
You have a horn where other brutes have none;
Rhinoceros, you are an ugly beast.

The Ostrich

(Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)

The ostrich is a silly bird,
With scarcely any mind.
He often runs so very fast,
He leaves himself behind.

And when he gets there, has to stand
And hang about till night,
Without a blessed thing to do
Until he comes in sight.

The Ostrich

(Ogden Nash)

The ostrich roams the great Sahara.
Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra.
It has such long and lofty legs,
I'm glad it sits to lay its eggs.

Penguin

(Meish Goldish)

I know a bird
That cannot fly;
Penguin is its name.
It cannot fly,
But it can swim
With speed that wins it fame!

I know a bird
That lives on ice
And waddles to the sea.
It looks so cute
In its black and white suit,
As handsome as can be!

(Penguins are birds but it seemed more logical to put them here.)

A Question About Penguins penguin

When do penguins change their clothes?
They must have others I suppose.
Can it be they're always dressed
In party clothes, that can't be messed?
Gathered in suits of black and white
Perfect for some formal night -
Do they expect a king or queen
To grace their distant glacial scene?
It would make me feel much better
If I knew each one owned a sweater.

The Camel

(Ogden Nash)

The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary, two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are you?

Big Cats

Page Toppers

  • Dandy'lions'
  • The Eye of the Tiger
  • Funky Fur
  • Just 'Lion" Around
  • Just 'Lion' Around the House
  • Lions, and tigers and bears, Oh my
  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight
  • The Mane Attraction (lion)
  • My Fur-vorite Animal is...
  • No Lion - the Zoo was Grrreat!
  • Out of Africa
  • Paws here
  • Roaring for his rights
  • Roarin' Good Times
  • Safari Hunt
  • Suburban Safari
  • Tiger Cubs on the Prowl
  • Tiger Cubs Roar
  • You're Grrrrrrreat! (tiger)

Quotes

The Panther

(Ogden Nash)

The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn't been peppered.
Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say Ouch.
Better yet, if called by a panther,
Don't anther.

The Tiger

(Cynthia Walters)

Orange and black,
Great big cat.
Four big paws.
Long sharp claws.
Through the jungle running,
Do you see her coming?
What a sight!
Will she bite?

Leopard

(Carolyn Wells)

If, strolling forth, a beast you view
Whose hide with spots is peppered,
As soon as it has leapt on you
You'll know it is a leopard

Lion

Lion paced the jungle floor.
And then let out a mighty roar.
"My stomach is empty. What can I do?
I know what - I'll nibble on you!"

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

In the jungle
The mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight

The Lion

(Mary Howitt)

When lion sends his roaring forth,
Silence falls upon the earth;
For the creatures, great and small,
Know his terror-breathing call;
And, as if by death pursued,
Leave him to a solitude.