As drake made his way to the front of the park to check out the flamingos he passed many people and some even recognized him from the live feeding with the tiger as he got closer to where the flamingos were kept he saw many kids surrounding the area looking at the flamingos who were walking all around with no limitations as he got closer the flock of 4 who normally ignored everyone and vibes around all looked at him all the sudden then started walking towards which greatly surprised the children and the employee not far away that sells tickets as they never seen this behavior even when it was time to feed as the flamingos neared drake they started doing laps around him they looked to be inspecting him then they started rubbing their heads on his legs and abdomen which even surprised drake himself as he never heard of flamingos exhibiting this behavior to humans in captivity 'looks like the animal affinity is way more useful then I thought I'm practically apart of the flock' thought drake as the kids in the pathway started talking some parents even started recording as he had time he played with the flamingos making honking sounds as they made honking sounds back to him after 5 minutes drake decided that it was time to go as he slowly walked away as the four flamingos stared at him and started honking at him drake not wanting to stress them out just honked softly back in hopes they got the point which it seems they did as they quieted down as he left you could see the 4 flamingos walking aimlessly which left the employee selling tickets even more stunned he never even seen the flamingos communicating with humans even on the internet he never seen it and now seeing them act like they just lost a flock member as his boss kept walking he saw birds fly up to him and some sat on his shoulder he couldn't help but think 'fuck is my boss Cinderella?'
"Finally the birds stopped harassing me" said drake with a smile although it wasn't really annoying and in fact it was fun it won't stop him from being a drama queen "Damn man what are you prince Cinderella you damn near got all the birds in the area I was almost expecting a snow owl to somehow appear and land at your shoulder" said a young man with blonde hair looking to be around 21 " haha it was just a coincidence" said drake with a smile as the young man said "a coincidence? Bro I saw what happened with the flamingos if this is a coincidence then why don't you play the lottery by the way I'm Ivan" said Ivan going for a hand shake "I'm drake" said drake while shaking Ivan's hand "wow drake the owner of the zoo I didn't know you had such a good relations with animals, I came here from Madison I study at the department of forest and wildlife came to visit family and came here as it's the closest zoo to Appleton that's an actual zoo do you know how impressed I was at the animals you have here especially for a private owned zoo with no government funds" said Ivan as he truly respected this zoo that had no government funding but still tried "haha thank you anyway Ivan what are your favorite animals?" Said drake wanting to change topics as he didn't want to talk about how his parents ran the zoo at this moment Ivan wasn't dense and he also researched the zoo and new it's history and it's previous owners so he understood and said "I love every bird I don't really have a favorite bird as they all fascinate me I've even had ideas of dropping out or transferring to a bird university as I don't like studying anything else" said Ivan as he sighs very exasperated to the point that drake felt that he was talking to a war veteran that was fighting demons and experienced hell drake just smiled and said "well it was nice meeting you Ivan but I got things to do" said drake as Ivan nodded and shook his hand and said "yeah you too drake I might come back to work here after all I can study more with The prince calming down the birds and having them show unnatural behavior" said Ivan as drake just smile bitterly at the nickname and said "sure see you then" as he walked away in the path of the grizzly and anteater exhibits
After walking for a bit drake could finally see the anteater exhibit it look to be .75 acres big as it housed two of the largest anteater species in the world giant anteaters as he finally made it to the front of the exhibit where a male zoo keeper was talking with 3 middle age adults about the ant eaters seeing him come the zoo keeper stopped the conversation and went to him and said "drake your here I didn't think you'll visit today" said the middle aged man as drake smiled and said "haha Jose I'm doing much better now tell me about the girls" said drake while looking into the exhibit it was wet lands and tropical forests themed "the two girls are doing just fine drake" said Jose as the two girls he refers too are two giant ant eaters although these animals are solitary the females are far less territorial plus she is sharing a exhibit with her daughter there is no issues as giant anteaters nurture the daughters for 2 years so the relationship is good