This small-ish zoo, part of the Natural History Museum, merits a solid “meh.” If you like zoos in general, you’ll like this zoo, but you might wonder why you’re spending your time in Paris on it. The animals seem happy enough, but there aren’t a whole lot of them. The only moment of zoo-keeper genius I saw was putting the tree sloths and the giant tortoises in the same enclosure, with a convenient bench in front of it for resting on while saying “so slow, so cute!” over and over again.
If you go, spend some time with the ostriches. Despite prominent signs saying “do not feed us,” hope springs eternal. The male followed me around the edges of the fence, scanning me and my pockets, and at one point enthusiastically consumed a pile of his own droppings in a “hint, hint” manner.
