While we were in the wallaby area, this 4+ foot-long copperhead came out from behind the bench that Andrea & Larkin were sitting on, passing about 6" from Andrea's foot! We got the kids out of the way, and the snake handlers were called from the reptile house. They caught it and took it far away to a safer place.
Well, not really Nigel. Nigel is the Brown Pelican who befriends Nemo in the Pixar movie. But brown pelicans don't live in australia. This australian pelican is much bigger than the brown pelicans I've seen before.
