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It had been a while, so I went to the zoo on Friday. All sorts of things went wrong: the bus driver failed to stop where I was waiting, I half-jogged through Newtown to get to the zoo in time for the 1pm otter talk, and missed it by only a couple of minutes. The otters were still out and about, but there was condensation on/in the lens so none of the photos turned out. The mad scramble left my muscles jellied as I was still full of residual sinus infection, so my arms were shaking like mad for the rest of the day, not conducive to photography in low light with improbably heavy lenses. And then my polarizing filter broke.
Wellington Zoo's male sumatran tiger has a deformity, caused by genetic defect, which means he can't bite and chew food. So he's given globs of raw mince through the fence.
Lanky the pelican is very old. Over 10 years beyond his life expectancy in captivity, in fact.
The red panda was given delicious grapes to eat. What the red panda didn't know is that the grape contained bitter medicine.
Now, have a gosling for good measure.
What do you mean, wrinkles? This is just what a giraffe looks like while chewing.
(All photos here.)
Hopefully I'll be acquiring a better laptop in the next month, which will be nice as my current curls up and dies if I try working with large image files, like anything shot in RAW. The obvious .jpg compression mangling would be nice to live without.