Zoo pics!

Do stay tuned, because in ten days I'll be starting the annual "Twelve Days of Christmas" with zoo critters. -grin- Have a lot of pics to dig through to find the best ones to use.

Got to go to the zoo today. And, hooray, I was lucky enough to see these three cuties:





And this nifty dead leaf mantis (he really was upside down):



And this walking stick bug:



I don't remember if I've ever posted one of these before, but this is a ratel, or a honey badger. Hard to get, 'cause he kept running back and forth along the front and hardly held still.



And this poor snow goose I kept waking up: