Safari Park photos
I'm going to preface this by saying that it was chucking it down with rain most of the day, so a lot of the photos were taken through raindrop splattered glass. I hope you guys enjoy them anyway.
This lioness decided to have a nap almost right by our car.
All of the lions sleeping
Keeping watch... and sleeping
A lion standing up. She was swishing her tail gently and I think she looks really majestic.
A family of Macaques. They're meant to be good at damaging cars!
Macaque baby with its mum. We sat and watched them for ages.
The baby macaque eating a stick.
Looking a little lost
I got plenty of pictures of rhino butt, which was bad enough. This picture, however, is from a rhino who was penned off alone. All it kept doing was coming out of its bed area, stick its horn in the dung pile and then going back again. I have no idea why.
Spot the zebra:
I had to listen to copious amounts of "they're rubbish at camouflage" and "nope, can't see any zebra". I LIKE zebra, even if they do look a little odd in what is completely foreign environment for them.
I like giraffe too, but even I can't deny they look a little bizarre.
A drinking bear. A bear that got very very close to the car and made me go "OMG move the car!" because it was coming straight towards me. *blush*
Every time we saw the elephants they seemed to be eating. They're fascinating to watch, which the photo doesn't really show, sorry.
Round One of Name This Animal:
I think it's an Eland. It has the most amazing horns whatever it is. Eating animals seems to be a reoccurring theme. Hmm.
Round Two of Name This Animal:
The animal in the middle: goat or sheep? I said sheep but was outvoted at the time.
This is a fully grown marmoset. They were free-ranging around the "foot safari" (the same place the sheep/goats where, as was everything that follows). Forgive the blurriness - this was too cute not to include.
Obligatory Donkey Photos (long story)
Next: Penguins! I didn't get any good pictures during penguin feeding time because I didn't have a great view and it decided to absolutely chuck it down so I was more focussed on being dry. I also got elbowed in the ribs by some random lady, but she did at least apologise.
I think those are both of the same penguin. It's an adolescent penguin because it still has a grey face. Oh and it's a Humbolt penguin if anyone's interested. They're very cute!
And finally... LEMURS!
The lemurs were without doubt the best part of the whole safari. They came up close to be petted and one even put its paws on my, well, my boobs - pervert lemur! All the black and white ruffed lemurs were males and were really friendly (a little TOO friendly sometimes). The red ruffed lemur in the photos was male too. His mate had a baby and it was adorable. No photos of it though, sorry.
Look at that tail!
The red ruffed lemur being shy, and deciding if it wanted to take on the black and white ruffed lemurs for food.
Coats and umbrellas are handy for drinking rain water from apparently.
Mmm tasty! (That would be my Mum looking rather embarrassed.)
Om nom nom! (My favourite photo - I'm so proud of this, even if it does have the (very lovely) keeper in the background.)
Eating the banana surprisingly daintily considering the prior nomming. (They left the skins of everything, even the apple, and preferred to suck/lick the remaining fruit off, which was quite funny with lemon.)
Well that's my photo-spam for the day. It was a lot later than I expected to post it because photobucket kept hanging last night, and then I slept until about 5pm today (I got up at points to take meds, have breakfast and have a shower. Stupid meds.). Hope you enjoyed anyway.
This lioness decided to have a nap almost right by our car.
All of the lions sleeping
Keeping watch... and sleeping
A lion standing up. She was swishing her tail gently and I think she looks really majestic.
A family of Macaques. They're meant to be good at damaging cars!
Macaque baby with its mum. We sat and watched them for ages.
The baby macaque eating a stick.
Looking a little lost
I got plenty of pictures of rhino butt, which was bad enough. This picture, however, is from a rhino who was penned off alone. All it kept doing was coming out of its bed area, stick its horn in the dung pile and then going back again. I have no idea why.
Spot the zebra:
I had to listen to copious amounts of "they're rubbish at camouflage" and "nope, can't see any zebra". I LIKE zebra, even if they do look a little odd in what is completely foreign environment for them.
I like giraffe too, but even I can't deny they look a little bizarre.
A drinking bear. A bear that got very very close to the car and made me go "OMG move the car!" because it was coming straight towards me. *blush*
Every time we saw the elephants they seemed to be eating. They're fascinating to watch, which the photo doesn't really show, sorry.
Round One of Name This Animal:
I think it's an Eland. It has the most amazing horns whatever it is. Eating animals seems to be a reoccurring theme. Hmm.
Round Two of Name This Animal:
The animal in the middle: goat or sheep? I said sheep but was outvoted at the time.
This is a fully grown marmoset. They were free-ranging around the "foot safari" (the same place the sheep/goats where, as was everything that follows). Forgive the blurriness - this was too cute not to include.
Obligatory Donkey Photos (long story)
Next: Penguins! I didn't get any good pictures during penguin feeding time because I didn't have a great view and it decided to absolutely chuck it down so I was more focussed on being dry. I also got elbowed in the ribs by some random lady, but she did at least apologise.
I think those are both of the same penguin. It's an adolescent penguin because it still has a grey face. Oh and it's a Humbolt penguin if anyone's interested. They're very cute!
And finally... LEMURS!
The lemurs were without doubt the best part of the whole safari. They came up close to be petted and one even put its paws on my, well, my boobs - pervert lemur! All the black and white ruffed lemurs were males and were really friendly (a little TOO friendly sometimes). The red ruffed lemur in the photos was male too. His mate had a baby and it was adorable. No photos of it though, sorry.
Look at that tail!
The red ruffed lemur being shy, and deciding if it wanted to take on the black and white ruffed lemurs for food.
Coats and umbrellas are handy for drinking rain water from apparently.
Mmm tasty! (That would be my Mum looking rather embarrassed.)
Om nom nom! (My favourite photo - I'm so proud of this, even if it does have the (very lovely) keeper in the background.)
Eating the banana surprisingly daintily considering the prior nomming. (They left the skins of everything, even the apple, and preferred to suck/lick the remaining fruit off, which was quite funny with lemon.)
Well that's my photo-spam for the day. It was a lot later than I expected to post it because photobucket kept hanging last night, and then I slept until about 5pm today (I got up at points to take meds, have breakfast and have a shower. Stupid meds.). Hope you enjoyed anyway.