Columbus May 28

I went with family members on an after-hours tour of the Columbus Zoo.

A moose, the largest deer, can fold itself pretty compactly.

A puma, probably Goldie or Poppy, one of three orphaned because of fires in California in 2020.

A pallas' cat, or manul, pauses during scratching.

A markhor makes a leap.

Splooting, red panda style

Katy, a koala mom

Katy and Kora

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!

Shoes

 Ice shoes

Climbing shoes

markhor

Snowshoes

Stomping shoe

Hank

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.

Markhor

Sunny, the owner of those body parts

The markhor is an endangered goat that lives in mountains of central Asia. Males have shaggy coats and large, spiral horns.

This female markhor is missing a leg.

Female markhors have shorter coats and smaller horns.