Notes: Just a silly idea I came up with while watching Wildlife. Everyone is an animal, and I tried my best to fit an animal to a character's personality, but I'm not sure how well I did. Anyway, enjoy! ;)

Chapter 1: Welcome to New York Zoo

Olivia padded through the underbrush, her ears perked and alert. Ahead of her, a stray pigeon had made its home in some grass, and Olivia licked her lips hungrily. Dinner time!

A sudden roar rang through the grass, and the pigeon flew off. Olivia quickly leapt for it and swiped at it, but missed and let out a growl as she hit the ground. She got back up and shook the dirt off her chocolaty brown pelt, her eyes following the pigeon as it flew through the sky.

I'll get you later, she silently promised the pigeon. Sighing to herself, the brown lioness flattened her ears as another growl rippled through the air.

"I'm coming!" she yowled.

Hopping up onto the wall beside her, Olivia stalked along the wall over to the tiger pen.

"What?" she demanded of the snow tiger pacing the floor in front of her. Olivia made herself comfortable on the brick wall and began to clean her paws. "What is so important?"

The snow tiger turned to face her, his bright blue eyes cutting through hers.

"Is it bad I wanted to see you again?" he laughed.

"Not necessarily," Olivia replied. "But the sun's going to be up soon. I can't get caught in here."

"I know," Elliot purred, raising an amused brow. "But I wanted to see you again before the keepers get here."

Olivia snarled in a mock-annoyed way, and Elliot chuckled to himself in that only one way tigers can. Suddenly, a white stork flew overhead cawing out the Sunrise Warning. Elliot began pacing again and Olivia resuming cleaning her claws.

"What's up, Huang?" she asked the stork as he landed next to her.

"Just doing the morning run," Huang replied. "What's up with you guys?"

"Chilling," Elliot replied, circling his pen. "Who'd you check up on so far?"

"Munch and Fin," Huang replied. "Well, and Kathy and Dean. Casey was still asleep so I didn't want to wake her. Remember last time I tried to wake her up?"

"She nearly ripped your throat out," Elliot chuckled.

"She nearly skinned you with her bare claws," Olivia smirked. "Feathers and all."

"Very funny," Hunag frowned. "It wouldn't be so funny if you had been on the recieving end of those claws."

"I guess not," Olivia replied with a purr. "So, how are Dean and Kathy?"

She asked to be nice, though the three animals already knew she didn't really care... none of them quite cared.

"Fine," Huang replied with an internal sigh. "Needy as hell. But that's nothing new."

The three animals all nodded their agreement. Huang suddenly looked over to his left as the quickly brightening sky.

"Uh oh, sun's coming up," he noticed. "I have to finish the morning run. I'll see you guys tonight though."

Olivia and Elliot said goodbye and the white stork flew off squawking his warning to the rest of the zoo. Olivia stared at her paws.

"I guess that's my cue to go too," she sighed. "See you tonight, Elliot."

"See you," Elliot sighed as Olivia stalked off. He murmured to himself "And so the day begins again at the New York City Zoo. Well, the show must go on."