{"id":884,"date":"2013-11-04T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/2013\/11\/04\/a-day-at-the-audubon-zoo\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:44:05","slug":"a-day-at-the-audubon-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/2013\/11\/04\/a-day-at-the-audubon-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day at the Audubon Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday visit to the Audubon Zoo was both enjoyable and educational. Au pairs got to pet a tiny, three-week old alligator (<em>Alligator mississippiensis)<\/em> and learned, among other things, that \u201cKomodo dragons are voracious eaters. A komodo dragon can eat as much as 80% of its body weight during a single feeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although au pairs agreed they could not eat anywhere close to their body weight \u00a0at one sitting (a sigh of relief from host parents!), they were sure they could out-talk any species on earth, including African Grey Parrots.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-881\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLDayatZoo.jpg\" alt=\"NOLDayatZoo\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLDayatZoo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLDayatZoo-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-882\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLZooalligator.jpg\" alt=\"NOLZooalligator\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLZooalligator.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLZooalligator-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-883\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLZoomeet.jpg\" alt=\"NOLZoomeet\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLZoomeet.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2013\/11\/NOLZoomeet-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday visit to the Audubon Zoo was both enjoyable and educational. 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A komodo dragon can eat as much as 80% of its body weight during a single feeding.\u201d Although au pairs  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/nol\/2013\/11\/04\/a-day-at-the-audubon-zoo\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[23,31,122,133],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-we-do","category-uncategorized","tag-au-pair-new-orleans","tag-audubon-zoo","tag-nanny","tag-new-orleans-live-in-childcare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Day at the Audubon Zoo - Jolanta&#039;s Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Day at the Audubon Zoo - Jolanta&#039;s Au Pair In America Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last Sunday visit to the Audubon Zoo was both enjoyable and educational. 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