Travis Kelce to Visit Australia zoo again with Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce is sharing behind-the-scenes details of his “amazing” date with Taylor Swift at the Sydney Zoo.

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end called the Grammy winner the “best thing possible” as he raved about their day meeting and feeding “exotic animals” including red pandas, koalas and dingos last month. “The kangaroos were pretty sweet. I got to see a red panda up close and personal,” he told his brother, Jason Kelce, in Wednesday’s episode of their “New Heights” podcast.

Travis, 34, particularly enjoyed his experience with the “sweet” red pandas, which he compared to a “friendly raccoon.” “One of my favorite things is the zookeeper, the one showing us the red panda, we had to go in a cage just to go in and see the panda in, like, the panda area, and they’re like, ‘All right, make sure that door’s closed, and when you get outta here quickly, close this one because they are escape artists,’ and I was like, ‘This thing just got so many brownie points from me, dude!’” he recalled.

While he loved many of the animals, the NFL star did admit there were some that he was thankful do not live in Kansas City, Mo.
“I saw a crocodile, which is f–king way bigger than an alligator,” he said before adding, “Thank God” they are not prominent in the United States. Travis and Swift, also 34, also got the chance to see two elephants from Africa, a tiger “sitting outside a treehouse” and a lion “up close.”

“You see three of them run down from their rock knowing they’re about to get fed, [and when] you see how fast and agile that thing is, dude, it’s over,” he added. “You can tell one was the big, bad one. Like, damn, that’s a bad man right there. Yeah, it was fun. It was a fun one.”
The athlete also shared that he had a soft spot for some of the other animals they saw.

“[We fed] the eucalyptus leaves to koalas,” he remembered. “They weren’t doing anything. They were just chilling. That’s what koalas do. They just chill.” The couple also got to “pet a rhino,” and Travis admitted it was “terrifying to be even in the same pen” as the 2,000-pound animal.