Evelyn Smythe sat on a bench at London Zoo waiting for the Doctor to return. To pass the time she pulled out the zoo map and looked at the various types of animals to be found on the zoo's grounds. "looking for the meerkats?" Evelyn's eyes rose from the pamflet to the face of the Doctor plastered with a smug expression and with eyes that (annoyingly) beamed with an intelligence that could almost justify his arrogance. Evelyn could think of many ways to describe the man standing before her but subtle was not one of them. Even with wearing his plain blue outfit in place of the usual multicolored monstrosity he stood out like a sore thumb amongst the jeans and t-shirts of the other zoo goers. In fact she doubted anyone would be surprised the two of them were in fact travelers in time and space. "You figured out what's going on with the Tardis then?" Evelyn asked, "Yes well, she seems to have detected some fluctuations in the vortex and will need to stay parked here while she recalibrates. So in the meantime I thought we could have a look around this delightful menagerie and enjoy… these" on the last word he looked down gesturing at the two ice creams Evelyn only now realized he was carrying "I got you chocolate of course".
They spent the next few hours walking around visiting the enclosures of various different animals in turn. Save for the reptile house, the Doctor stating that he'd had some bad experiences with reptiles in the past particularly the three eyed variety. The day was largely uneventful but Evelyn did have to stop the Doctor from trying to correct some of the zookeepers on their knowledge of the animals. However Evelyn was not prepared for just how agitated the Doctor was about to be. He stopped in front of a small unassuming enclosure staring in disbelief at the sight before him, all of his usual self asurededness was gone and replaced with utter befuddlement. "That is impossible, completely impossible" before the pair of them, separated by a small fence was a large grey creature somewhat resembling a turkey but plumper and possessing strangely pigeonesk features. It had an almost dumbfounded expression, not unlike the Doctor's as if it were questioning why he was staring back at it. "What's wrong Doctor, it's just a dodo?" Evelyn asked.