Melbourne Zoo
About Melbourne Zoo
Melbourne Zoo is a zoo in Melbourne, Australia. It is located within Royal Park in Parkville, approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of the centre of Melbourne. It is the primary zoo serving Melbourne. As of 2021, the zoo contains 3742 animals comprising 243 species, from Australia and around the world. The zoo is accessible via Royal Park station on the Upfield railway line, and is also accessible via tram routes 58 and 19, as well as by bicycle on the Capital City Trail. Bicycles are not allowed inside the zoo itself.
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Monkeys in Melbourne Zoo are no longer allowed to eat bananas, because humans have bred them to have so much sugar that the monkeys were getting obese.
from 240: No Such Thing As An Easy Tweet, 2018-10-26 at 00:16:13 · read transcript
Other times Melbourne Zoo came up
There's a theory that actually it's a myth that the reason that they taste differently to bananas is because we made them when Gros-Michel bananas were around and we made them taste like those. Actually, we just made the candies taste like very sweet bananas and it just happens to be the same. I wonder if we were in Melbourne Zoo and we were fed those candy bananas, whether or not that would be more hurtful to us than an actual banana is to monkeys in Melbourne Zoo. If that was all we had, then it would be bad, yeah.
240: No Such Thing As An Easy Tweet, 2018-10-26 · listen
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