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Seokjin doesn’t really see the appeal of koalas. They have squashed in faces and their drab fur makes them look like ill treated plushies. "They’re genetically designed to die, you know. Nothing that survives exclusively on one type of plant and then doesn’t have the good sense to evolve fully functioning leg muscles isn't going to last for long."
"Hyeong!" Taehyung looks at him like a child who has learned too early the mysteries surrounding Father Christmas, "how can you talk like that? They’re so cute."
One especially ‘cute’ koala yawns wide, displaying a shrivelled up pink lump of a tongue and two less than impressive rows of incisors. Seokjin can’t begin to fathom their appeal.
It takes ten minutes to persuade Taehyung to leave the koalas and go look at something that Seokjin is actually interested in. It’s warm inside the reptile house, and the muggy smell of decomposing leaves is heavenly compared to the stench of the nearby rhino enclosure.
A skink scuttles from one side of it’s tank to the other prompting Taehyung to nearly jump out of his skin as he edges closer to Seokjin,
"It’s looking at me," he mumbles.
Seokjin snorts, “it’s hunting. They give them live crickets so that they can practice the behaviour they’d exhibit in the wild. You don't catch many crickets standing still”
"They feed them live animals?" Taehyung makes a face, "gross."
"They’re only insects,"
"That’s even grosser."
A cricket crosses the eyeline of the skink too close to be safe and less than two second later they get to watch the poor thing get folded in half by the jaws of the lizard. Taehyung’s shoulder presses close against Seokjin as he shudders,
"These things are awful,"
The skink freezes, it’s eyes looking out beyond the glass. Seokjin knows that it probably isn’t looking at them, but it would be easy to pretend it was, “I think they’re cute.”
"And people say I’m the weird one."