If there's an itch...

What do you do when you have an itch?

Nubian goat

Bali myna

Angora goat

markhor

The picture of the buffalo weaver is pretty horrible because a shutter at 1/15s is not fast enough to stop motion. That means there's a lot of motion blur, which makes the bird appear out of focus. Motion blur can be good, though, and I think the curve of the leg's motion is pretty cool. The blue is the tag on the leg, captured a couple of times.

white-headed buffalo weaver

Tyler, a Reeves's muntjac

Mustard, a Tasmanian devil

western cattle egret

sunbittern

All photos are from the Columbus Zoo except the sunbittern's, which is from the Cincinnati Zoo.

Domesticated

Areas for children and adults who like to scratch goats seem to be popular in zoos. Columbus has My Barn, and the animals are domesticated.

Tallulah, a pygmy goat.

A Jacob sheep. Nice teeth!

A Dexter cow. I was too slow to get her tongue in the shot.

Her tongue is pretty long.

Sven isn't in the My Barn area, but the animal known as a reindeer in North America is a domesticated caribou.

kunekune pig

Angora goat

It was a cold day in January (snow in the background), but chickens were out. I believe they're all Wyandottes, of several varieties. I think: That's a silver-laced in front and a blue-laced red third. The others?

A blue-laced red Wyandotte?