The thing looked like little more than a large exotic cow to Ed but that didn't mean he was at all at ease with it.  He'd been through the zoo a time or two as a visitor and even if it had been a resident of the zoo it was out.  As in not in a cage.  As in there was nothing separating it and them.  And was worse was what it could mean for the rest of the zoo and it's residents.

Then some how squabbles about houses and general intelligence and the price of peas in Paris  broke out amongst them.  
"Have some sense man!" was all Ed managed to hiss at the professor but it was lost among the other rebukes. What Ed lacked in animal education he made up for in intuition and intuition told him the bossy woman knew what she was talking about.  "I would wager someone put it here." He muttered with irritation because he didn't honestly care at the moment.   The scale of their task and the stakes at hand were suddenly very real and he cared more that people didnt seem to be moving.

With a firm grip on his cane he moved in the direction Miss MacKay had indicated, his free arm vaguely outstretched in the hope it would have some kind of herding affect on the others.  He could live with dying by his own faults but he'd be damned if he got killed by someone else's stupidity.