My sister has lived in Arizona for about 10 years now and we have gone to the Wildlife Zoo about three times over the decade. When you first walk into the Zoo there is a gift shop that has these "sweet" looking American Alligators swimming around. This particular one had been swimming around with his grub for quite some time.
You could view them from the inside of the exhibit as demonstrated by Sis.
We found out that they are fed frozen mice - still creepy if you ask me.
Isn't this tiger beautiful? I love the way he just lays there with his legs crossed basking in the sun.
This vulture was a riot. I have to, at this time, mention that the sight of Hot Rocks made the animals do very STRANGE things this day. As soon as the vulture saw my husband, it hopped down off the perch and
and started to dance around in circles in front of him.
It's wingspan was incredible and it would bring in it's wings and then extend
them out while going around in circles. It made about 4 rotations in front of him before it flew back onto the perch that it was at beforehand.
Don't they inspire you to go snuggle up to that special someone?
His eyes were so hypnotizing. The shaded lines on the picture is the fence that I couldn't get out of the picture. Hot Rocks and Pook were standing at the fence when all of a sudden the lion charged the fence. The girls and I had just turned to walk to the next exhibit when it happened, but it sure startled the boys!
The rhino was no exception to the weird things that were going on either. We were standing at the fence watching it walk around and as soon Hot Rocks walked up to the fence, it started to look straight at him, flinging his head up and down. I had no idea the animal magnetism that my husband held.
This is him getting a good chuckle out of the whole thing.
Isn't this the sweetest face EVER??? I didn't get to close because I didn't want to get spit on....
it obviously wasn't in the mood to spit though, rather, he wanted to gnaw on something....
The giraffes are a favorite. Mem was able to spend quite a bit of time petting them and
feeding them. The tongues on these creatures are not only long but soooo SLIMY!!!
Beware of this next picture!!! It is not for the faint of heart and you might want to put your hand over your kids eyes if you don't want to have to explain this right now.
I have to give a little background on "WHY" this picture was taken. My youngest daughter, Mem, calls this "romancing". The animals are romancing, thank you, Viva Pinata! for Nintendo DS and they have romanced ALL THREE TIMES that we have gone to this Zoo. Obviously, the Zoo is not having a problem with these very prolific tortoises.
This was one of the creepiest things we saw. It reminded us of Medusa but in reality the snakes were just cuddled together. Their bodies were under the water lilies.
In the petting zoo, there are about a dozen tortoises that were all sitting under a heating lamp in their little barn when I had walked up
I found the designs on their shells beautiful but noticed that
when it was time to eat, they all came a "runnin' ". They could devour a half of head of letuce in about 2-3 bites - veracious appetites.
All the kids were feeding the animals in the petting zoo and if the goats or deer weren't getting enough food
they started to nibble on your shirt or pants! The edges of all of their shirts were wet when they finally made their way out.
The flamingos had moved since the last time we were there. They are in a much bigger exhibit area.
Mem wants one of these lovely peacocks, but they are so noisy!!! Beautiful but noisy - I think I will keep admiring them from afar.
Hmmm....I wonder where we will be next?
Another fantastic day together! So many GREAT memories this last trip!!
Posted by: Karrie Baker | December 09, 2010 at 05:51 AM