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Ocelot II

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7. I used to hang out there to look at the big cats. They slept most of the time, being cats, but

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 6, 2026, 11:19 AM

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it was relaxing to just watch them. When I was a kid we lived only a couple of miles from the zoo, and sometimes early on summer mornings we could hear the lions roar. It was more of a loud "Woof!"

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