The Zoo Annex: Mammoth Cave

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Mammoth Cave

More than 367 miles of mapped Mammoth cave hide unseen under Kentucky. No one knows how much the Cave really cover because the full extent of the caves have not been explored. The second longest cave is only 143 miles, and is located in Ukrainskaya. Because Mammoth Cave has not been completely mapped some believe it could reach to 560 miles! If the Cave are 560 miles long you could go from Louisville, Ky, to Washington D.C. without seeing the sky!

There are many caves in Kentucky, like Fisher Ridge, cave which is the 7th longest cave in the world. Also the Roppel Cave, which in 1983 was found to connect to the Mammoth Cave. Some of the other caves in and around Kentucky could be part of the great Mammoth Cave. In fact, Kentucky has 14 caves that are on the longest cave of the world list.

On vacation, our family got to see some of the Mammoth Cave, and it's an amazing thing to see. Here are some images from our trip to the cave.

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Why Zoo Annex?

WeLeCoMe to the wonderful zoo annex, home to the wild and crazy Wallis Boys, who are native to North America. We also have here a Wallis Dad, a rare breed, but also native to North America. The Wallis Boys and Wallis Dad have a keeper called Carolyn, who spends a lot of time in the cage due to the heavy maintenance and feeding needs of the Wallis Boys. This add-on to the zoo was added not a long time ago, possibly two months ago. Some say this add on is not official to the zoo, and you don't need to pay admission to see these rare creatures, well this may be true, we are named the zoo annex because of the likeness to a zoo, and how these Wallis boys are as crazy as chimps, as speedy as cheetahs (At least when food is involved.) and they are as ravenous as wolves.

Jonathan Wallis

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My dad calls it the zoo annex because we live right behind the Louisville zoo and with four boys (including my Dad) in the house (not to talk about the one Latte loving mom). Its a crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy place. I think the zoo is going to be put out because of us. So at this point if you are thinking "can it really be that bad?" have never lived with more then two people for more then a week. And just to give some examples of how crazy it gets. Good dinner conversations deal with, how to destroy a country, the biggest practical joke you could pull, what you could do to start WW3, how to blow up the world, the rest are to crazy for the world to keep spinning if we told you them.

Josiah Wallis

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