Zoo Pics!
It was coooolllld here today, but sunny, and since I was going to the zoo anyway for a class (mammals - my favorites, I confess), I wandered around for a while afterwards and - big surprise - took a bunch of pictures. The usual suspects are here, of course, along with some new ones. Everything's resized, but this is still going to take a week to download if you're on dial-up. (OK, not really a week, but it will feel like it.)
First I went to Jungle World and finally got a decent shot of the binturong's whiskery face. adjrun, this one's for you. *g*
Also finally...the tree kangaroos weren't hiding from me. In fact, they were eating and interacting. Woot!
The tapir was being its usual lazy self, but that just made getting this shot easy.
Life isn't life without monkeys, so here are some ebony langurs.
This one just owns me.
The gibbon (an ape, not a monkey) was sleepy.
Then there was that cheerful little bird I like, even though I still don't know what he is.
And then I decided to try getting some shots of the fish and the turtles, a first for me. I rather like some of the results.
After that it was off to the Himalayan Highlands. The red pandas weren't out, but the snow leopards were. And...Leo has a girlfriend! One of them (I'm guessing him) periodically pounced on the other (I'm guessing her), who was not amused. Unfortunately they were always behind bushes at the time, so...no pictures. But that's OK, I got other shots.
The first one shows the face the big cats make when they're scenting the air.
Check out the teeth! (It was just a yawn.)
In the other enclosure, the mother was washing her cubs, who are pretty much her size at this point.
Then it was off to my last stop before I retreated to the relative warmth of my car, Tiger Mountain.
And my favorite (which I think I have to turn into an icon):
First I went to Jungle World and finally got a decent shot of the binturong's whiskery face. adjrun, this one's for you. *g*
Also finally...the tree kangaroos weren't hiding from me. In fact, they were eating and interacting. Woot!
The tapir was being its usual lazy self, but that just made getting this shot easy.
Life isn't life without monkeys, so here are some ebony langurs.
This one just owns me.
The gibbon (an ape, not a monkey) was sleepy.
Then there was that cheerful little bird I like, even though I still don't know what he is.
And then I decided to try getting some shots of the fish and the turtles, a first for me. I rather like some of the results.
After that it was off to the Himalayan Highlands. The red pandas weren't out, but the snow leopards were. And...Leo has a girlfriend! One of them (I'm guessing him) periodically pounced on the other (I'm guessing her), who was not amused. Unfortunately they were always behind bushes at the time, so...no pictures. But that's OK, I got other shots.
The first one shows the face the big cats make when they're scenting the air.
Check out the teeth! (It was just a yawn.)
In the other enclosure, the mother was washing her cubs, who are pretty much her size at this point.
Then it was off to my last stop before I retreated to the relative warmth of my car, Tiger Mountain.
And my favorite (which I think I have to turn into an icon):