I dropped off the rental car then took a ferry ride across Sydney Harbor to the other side where Taronga Zoo is.

If you listened to your biology teacher, you would know animals in Australia are different from the rest because of the Ice Age.

Millions of years ago, Earth was colder and the ice caps on our north and south poles grew, pulling the water out of the ocean, causing it to drop.

Now that there is more land, animals could walk everywhere, it was possible to walk from South America all the way to Europe or even from Africa to North America.

That is why cats have distant relatives all over the world, the tiger in Asia, the lion in Africa, the bobcat in North America, and the puma in South America.

They are all felines and related.

The same goes for primates, the giant gorilla in Africa, the howler monkey in South America, and the fat orangutan in Thailand.

There are no felines or primates here in Australia.

The land between Australia and the rest was too deep, so Australia remained an island, and the animals in Australia evolved on their own.

That is why the animals here are weird and fucked up.

00:14 Introduction
02:47 Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
03:25 Koala at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
03:49 Wombat at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
04:27 Wallaby at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
04:50 Kangaroo at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
05:06 Platypus at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
05:30 Tasmanian Devil at Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
07:52 Marble Bar, Sydney, Australia
08:48 Plans for Tomorrow