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Monday, March 09: The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance (Part 1 - mammals and birds)
(It's not just the "Denver Zoo" anymore, ha.)
The Monday before my birthday, Alex and I went to the zoo. :)
It was a really pleasantly warm day, so it was great for walking around!
Less great for walking around was how much pain Alex was in. He was unfortunately hurting pretty badly, but we made it through most of the zoo, and did stay until closing! Just sucky that it did make parts of the day a bit less enjoyable for him.
One thing we hadn't done before was ride the train, ha. It's a mini railroad that takes you on about a five-minute loop around a bit of the zoo. It was just a few dollars to ride, so we decided to do it, haha. It was fun!
As always, took too many pictures, so I'll split it into three posts. This one for the birds and mammals, and probably one for fish and frogs, and one for the reptiles.
Both tigers were out. This is the bigger, male tiger. He was enjoying his pool!
Flamingos! They're fun to watch. The one running through the water was chasing others around for a bit.
The tiger was rubbing his face on the edge of the pool and looked just like a housecat. But big.
Lookit the kitty!
We wandered by at the right time for one of the elephant demonstrations.
Will lay down for some veggies.
While the event hadn't officially opened yet, they had set up most of the lanterns for their "Glowing Wild" event. There were several really neat displays! This was clearly one of the most dramatic.
(The lanterns are clearly by the same company that did the ones we saw at the lantern festival at Four Mile park last year. Very cool! I bet they're really neat after dark.)
Lemur! :D
Closeup lemur! :D Mmm, broccoli.
Fancy crane in the aviary.
This little duck apparently wanted to come fight lots of peoples' legs. Including mine.
Sleepy flying foxes!
We did hang out all the way until closing time (4:00, which felt very early, especially post-time-change.) We did skip a few areas, or kind of had to breeze through them, but we saw most of what we hoped to.
As we were heading toward the exit, we both got free pretzels, since they'd be thrown out at the end of the day. Score!
As we left the elephant passage area, Alex remarked that he wanted to see an elephant actually use the bridge. You always walk under it, but we haven't ever seen any of the elephants using it.
And immediately...
Alex summoned him!
The Monday before my birthday, Alex and I went to the zoo. :)
It was a really pleasantly warm day, so it was great for walking around!
Less great for walking around was how much pain Alex was in. He was unfortunately hurting pretty badly, but we made it through most of the zoo, and did stay until closing! Just sucky that it did make parts of the day a bit less enjoyable for him.
One thing we hadn't done before was ride the train, ha. It's a mini railroad that takes you on about a five-minute loop around a bit of the zoo. It was just a few dollars to ride, so we decided to do it, haha. It was fun!
As always, took too many pictures, so I'll split it into three posts. This one for the birds and mammals, and probably one for fish and frogs, and one for the reptiles.
Both tigers were out. This is the bigger, male tiger. He was enjoying his pool!
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Flamingos! They're fun to watch. The one running through the water was chasing others around for a bit.
The tiger was rubbing his face on the edge of the pool and looked just like a housecat. But big.
Lookit the kitty!
We wandered by at the right time for one of the elephant demonstrations.
Will lay down for some veggies.
While the event hadn't officially opened yet, they had set up most of the lanterns for their "Glowing Wild" event. There were several really neat displays! This was clearly one of the most dramatic.
(The lanterns are clearly by the same company that did the ones we saw at the lantern festival at Four Mile park last year. Very cool! I bet they're really neat after dark.)
Lemur! :D
Closeup lemur! :D Mmm, broccoli.
Fancy crane in the aviary.
This little duck apparently wanted to come fight lots of peoples' legs. Including mine.
Sleepy flying foxes!
We did hang out all the way until closing time (4:00, which felt very early, especially post-time-change.) We did skip a few areas, or kind of had to breeze through them, but we saw most of what we hoped to.
As we were heading toward the exit, we both got free pretzels, since they'd be thrown out at the end of the day. Score!
As we left the elephant passage area, Alex remarked that he wanted to see an elephant actually use the bridge. You always walk under it, but we haven't ever seen any of the elephants using it.
And immediately...
Alex summoned him!
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Zoo train! That sounds awesome.
The tiger pictures are amazing! The elephant on it's side is a great shot. Glad an elephant manifested on the bridge