Columbus October 3

Melvin, a female domestic duck with a severe deformity or significant refraction

white cockatoo

I wonder if the sand cats ever get to go outside. Whenever I visit in the same room in the Village.

male African lion, engaging in the most common lion activity

This female African lion was looking at another one.

dromedary camel

I got lucky. When I decided to press the button, the bee was on the flower. By the time the shutter fired, the honey bee was flying (and in focus!).

northern paper wasp, I think

Funny

 All photos are from the Columbus Zoo.

Alva, a wolverine. You can guess the sex.

A silvered langur performs a scene from Julius Ceasar

Tuna; Barry or Sammi; and Marlin in close formation. They have name tags; Marlin's is red. (African penguins in the Animal Encounters Village)

Marlin, Barry, and Tuna in spread formation.

I first thought Connie was sucking on the fence structure, but there's a feeder there. (Asian elephant)

The good stuff is always at the bottom. (dromedary camels)

Joanie, a black bear

 

It's not the toy.

It's the box it came in.

African lion (Columbus Zoo)

black ratsnake (Columbus Zoo)

African grey parrot (Columbus Zoo)

meerkat (Toledo Zoo)

puma (Toledo Zoo)

dromedary camels (Columbus Zoo)

The meerkat and puma were after food. Parrots seem to enjoy tearing things up.

Leave me alone!

 

Well, this explains my difficulty in deciding whether these birds are rainbow or coconut lorikeets. (Columbus Zoo)

Soras swim but don't have webbed feet. (Columbus Zoo)

Maybe the sora's long toes help it swim. The bird is about the size of a robin.

hadada ibises (Columbus Zoo)

dromedary camels (Columbus Zoo)

More of Poor Clyde, an African gray parrot

Amur tigers (Columbus Zoo)

pygmy goats (Columbus Zoo)

I'm lookin' at you

Watusi cattle (Toledo Zoo)

 

San Esteban chuckwalla

western cattle egret

silvered langur

Reeves's muntjac

king cobra

Florida manatee

Victoria crowned pigeon

dromedary camel

All photos are from the Columbus Zoo except as noted.

Columbus Zoo July 22

My visit was actually July 23, but "three" doesn't rhyme with "zoo."

dromedary camel

The signage says common ostrich, but the website says blue-neck ostrich.

Saddle-billed storks dance.

At the Columbus Zoo, North America is adjacent to Heart of Africa, so it was no trouble to walk.

A cedar waxwing. This is one of my favorite birds because of its cool sunglasses and jaunty hairdo.

A scarlet tanager, in nonstandard plumage. These guys are supposed to be red all over with black wings. Females are yellowish.

Caterpillars on the bald eagle enclosure. I hadn't noticed these, but another visitor pointed them out, and the white ones were crawling all over the fencing.

A trumpeter swan takes a drink.

A honey bee at work