Thursday, April 25, 2019

April 22

Here's what I saw at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium April 22, 2019.
A flamingo tucks its beak into its back for a nap, but its eye is open.
Caribbean flamingo

A stretched flamingo's wing, pink with a black trailing edge.
I love flamingo wings.

A flamingo splashes low in the water.
Bath time

Three otters run for fun in the water.
Asian small-clawed otters run for water.

An orangutan walks on a log using hands and feet.
Bornean orangutan

A Bornean orangutan glances to its left.
A little side-eye?

A pink bud, shaped like a long pine cone
a tree's budding blossom

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Friday, April 19, 2019

Marine life

As with reptiles, I had not been particularly interested in marine life, but a warm aquarium is nice to visit in winter. In many cases, the lighting is rather dim, and I have a hard time getting a good image unless the animal is close to the glass. An exception is the well-lighted Pacific sea nettle.

Yellow and orange sea nettle jellyfish with entangled tentacles
Pacific sea nettle (Toledo Zoo)
This fish has narrow gray and white stripes overlaid with yellow stripes and spots. The tail is gray with lighter gray spots.
Red Sea sailfin tang (Columbus Zoo)

This fish has wide gray and narrow white stripes overlaid with yellow stripes. It has a yellow tail.
sailfin tang (Toledo Zoo)
The turtle swims to the right, with a manatee also swimming to the right.
Buddy, a female hawksbill sea turtle, and a Florida manatee (Columbus Zoo)

Buddy is gray, yellow, and white and has oval eyes.
Tink, a green sea turtle (Toledo Zoo)

Three orange, white, and black clownfish swim among pink anemone tentacles.
clownfish and their anemones (Toledo Zoo)

Four sea nettle jellyfish are stacked vertically.
Pacific sea nettles (Toledo Zoo)



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