Cue Johnny Cash:

I hear that train a-comin', a comin' round the bend...

Only, at the Baton Rouge Zoo, the train delivers a different kind of spectacle. What comes around the bend is a gang of white geese, marching single file and looking for trouble .

Wait, that's not a verse in Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," but it is what riders on BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo train see when rounding the bend somewhere near the giraffe habitat.

"There are days when they get in there with the giraffes and won't leave," Brittany Tully said. "They're kind of a little gang around here."

Tully is the zoo's senior communication manager. She's taken this ride before, and she's the first to admit that it never gets old.

There's just something about taking the train trip around the zoo, how it gives you a behind-

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