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enclosures around her. It was so dark in the nocturnal house! It had to be dim because the animals who lived there liked to be awake at night and asleep during the day. Zoe called the nocturnal house the “topsy-turvy house” because at night the keepers turned all the lights on so that it seemed like daytime, and the nocturnal animals all went to sleep. But right now, during the day, they pretended it was night so that the animals would be awake for people to see.
As her eyes adjusted, Zoe saw the bats fluttering around in the blue light of their enclosure. In the enclosure opposite, a friendly chinchilla called Suki was climbing on a branch. She gave a loud squeak of welcome as soon as she saw Zoe and Great-Uncle Horace.
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