Trip to the Zoo

[nonionay]

It's a new photo post!
I recently got a membership at the Woodland Park Zoo, and yesterday, I used it. Here's some of the highlights.




This guy is from the African Aviary.



Monkey!


Bear!


This is a surprising example of reflections being a bonus. Look at the cute sleepy jaguar cuddling up against the ghost foot.



Blue-gray tanager in the Rainforest Aviary. They have some benches in there where you can just sit and relax with the sound of birds around you. That's what I was doing (and there were no noisy visitors in the aviary at the time) when this guy zoomed up to me for a moment.



I'm pretty sure this is Amanda, a mama gorilla. She seemed to be having fun picking bugs off herself and/or masturbating. Whichever it was, she was adorable. To my amusement, everyone talking about her referred to her as "he". I was like, "first, you can't go look at the wall that identifies the individuals. Second, you think a guy's going to have breasts like that?"

Comments

[shadesofmauve]

I love the jaguar and the ghost foot, and I lolled (bitterly) at calling the gorilla 'he'. I'm amazed by the number of people who never bother to read zoo signs! When I was at the Vancouver aquarium a few months back watching a really delightful porpoise people kept coming in and saying "Look at the dolphin!" Then one dude in a big group heard the 'porpoise' part, but nothing else, and took it upon himself to explain that the difference between dolphins and porpoises was that porpoises were fish.

Meanwhile the porpoise is all "Here, see me swim to the top for air, which I breathe because I'm a mammal! I use my blowhole. For the air! And here's the bit where I can give birth to live young! And and and -- "