Zoo pics!

Went to the zoo. First time in, oh, at least three weeks. Wandered around a bit. Not a lot of great pics today; the sun was obnoxiously bright today. And in Balboa Park on Sundays, their International Houses (that is, houses sponsored by different countries) are open with food that's free (though they ask for donations) and entertainment. Got some Polish sausage, some awesome goat cheese on cream cheese and bread from Norway, and some yummy barn brack and pumpkin spice bread from Ireland.

Anyway. Zoo. I did get right up to the glass with these bonobos. Aren't they cute? And there was a small group of students there learning how to monitor animal interactions and write them down. They had a watch beeping every minute or so, and were saying things like, "Mikasa is in Zone 3. Tuuk followed Lolita. That wasn't play, that was close contact." etc, etc. Really quite interesting.





Darn the glare, though. Made it terribly hard to get pics.



I do like the colors in this one, though. This is a Chinese takin. They always remind me a bit of the banthas from Star Wars.



( One last pic behind the cut for arachnophobes. )