Columbus January 23

I was struck by the shape of the tree on the far side of the lake.

There's food in the fake stump, and the mallards waited for the trumpeter swan to spill some. Because of the snow, I had to overexpose the swan so the ducks would not be underexposed.

Mexican wolf yoga

There is sad news about Hermie (Twitter).

Guillotine the wolverine gnaws an antler.

The trumpeter swan pond, complete with the mallards

A markhor eats snow.

Queen of the rocks!

Canids

Woof! Sort of.

Gray wolves come in many colors.

gray wolf (Toledo Zoo)

Litter-mates and brother gray wolves Loki, Lobo, and Tundra (Toledo Zoo)

gray wolf (Minnesota Zoo)

Mexican wolf, a subspecies of the gray wolf (Columbus Zoo). It's gnawing on an antler.

bat-eared foxes (Columbus Zoo)

African painted dog (Cincinnati Zoo)

dingo (Toledo Zoo)

dingo (Toledo Zoo)

Stevie, a red fox (Columbus Zoo). She's pretty skittish and looks at me warily.

Stevie. Red foxes of this color phase are known as silver foxes. A red fox at the Minnesota Zoo is mottled black and tan/red (my two pictures are bad).

maned wolf (Toledo Zoo)

Recent photos

These pictures are from three zoo trips in October.

Caribbean flamingos (Columbus Zoo)

Bali myna (Columbus Zoo)

toco toucan (Columbus Zoo)

Mexican wolf (Columbus Zoo)

Kulu (Columbus Zoo)

emerald starling (Toledo Zoo)

Roary (Columbus Zoo)

Hermie and pronghorn (Columbus Zoo). They're not as close to one another as they appear.

Mandarin duck (Toledo Zoo)

koala (Columbus Zoo)

hippopotamus (Toledo Zoo)