Finally got to go to the zoo. The babies were out playing. I didn't get to spend as much time as I wanted but took way too many pictures. Jade is our newest baby elephant she is about 14 months old. She was having fun, playing in the water and with her food.
More to come later. Have a Wonderful Day! Thanks for looking. :o)
For challenge...
Look out for #1 Don't open this if animal bodily functions upset you.HorsesSomebody the other said they'd like to see both horses in one of my shots and with the new challenge here they are.
For fun...
Just for fun. The reason why I can't get anything done... babysitting the grandcat. The dummy just got done climbing over my head to jump at a bird outside the window.
Ole Split-ear Was outside this morning before first light watching for the deer and only caught a bunny over by the cornfield. It has a split ear. Not real good quality too dark out. Made it at least recognizable in PS.
Made it to the zoo Saturday! The St. Louis zoo and it was the hottest most humid day I've ever seen. The animals just wanted to sleep in the shade and I couldn't blame them. Three hours driving both ways about 5 hours at the zoo and 5 or 6 at Harrah's Casino made for a long day! I'll try to spread the pics out over 2-3 days. Tried to keep them as small as possible. If you're sick of zoo animals, well, too bad, I had to suffer to get these and if you don't like them... well, your kids probably will!
Flippin' me the man!
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Giant Anteater
Smart Ape plus Paperbag equals Shade!
Stoned Owl!
Tarantula!
Grizzzzzzzzz...
No Lifeguards on Duty!
Elephant shower! As you can imagine I took a bunch of this elephant...
Get behiind the ears!
Glug Glug!
Ooh, that's Tasty!
They're doing a lot of remodeling and expansion at the zoo. The gorilla exhibit was temporarily closed (dang it). They've erected a neat sculpture on the edge of the zoo called "Animals Always". It's an awesome sculpture out of rusted iron that looks like paper cutouts of various animals. Really nice but we flew buy in the car before we knew it was there. Got a couple pics I'll show later but need to go back to do it justice.
Now I'm going to try and catch up here. I know I'm too far behind on everyone's posts after two days off.
This weekend I went for the first time to a small zoo not far from home where they had what we believe to be rescued animals. What really grabbed my attention the most where the elephants. This guys seemed to have come from a circus and one of them actually had a couple of stars branded on his skin. I was struck with the differences between the two animals, while one was still trying to reach for branches to eat outside their enclosure and seemd very active. The oldest one looked sad and tired. The look in his eyes makes me wonder what he must've seen in his long life.
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