Kevin's Watch

Zoo's are delightful places!! Post pictures from your city or regional zoo. Share your love of nature with the Watch!!


*suggested by da Matrixman!!

Having grown up in south Florida, I still think of Miami's MetroZoo as my zoo, even though I am now 400 miles away in Gator Town. The destruction and bouncing back from the damage caused by Hurricane Andrew (which happened while I still lived down there) through Hurricane Wilma over the past decade and half is a source of intense community pride, even for those of us no longer living in the community.

Here in Gator Town, our 'Zoo' is completely different, and for me now, an even better place. I don't have my own camera, so I can't share pictures that I have taken, but the Santa Fe Community College Teaching Zoo, while tiny, is a wonderful place to see young, enthusiastic students who plan on being zoo technicians and maybe even zoologists one day. During public visiting hours, visitors to the zoo may find themselves eavesdropping on a lecture/demonstration to a class of serious students (not a 'talk' prepared for the public) on the care of the animals in the area the class is at.

Truly a fascinating few hours well spent whenever I go.

I don't understand why this is a sticky...

Nice, Spiral Jacobs. Especially like that first pic of the otters! What zoo are those pics from?

A Grizzly Bear sauntering at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Zoo

They're from Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam. Those otters were chillin', just floating around, minding their own business. Here's a few more I took that day:

James wrote:I don't understand why this is a sticky...

Neither do I.-jay

SJ...that looks like one pissed off monkey.

Spiral J, those are some remarkable close-up shots! The tiger is stunning.

Meerkats...

Matrixman wrote:Spiral J, those are some remarkable close-up shots! The tiger is stunning.

Thanks . I bought a new digital camera last year and I'm very happy with it. The full-size image (2048x1536) is great, you can count the individual hairs.

kevinswatch wrote:

James wrote:I don't understand why this is a sticky...

Neither do I.-jay

It is stickied to see who will gripe about it!! Or ... it was!!! Hmmmm ... did someone violate my forum with their ADMIN powers!!

Busted.

--A

Creator wrote: Or ... it was!!! Hmmmm ... did someone violate my forum...

ahem....your forum???...

Seareach wrote:

Creator wrote: Or ... it was!!! Hmmmm ... did someone violate my forum...

ahem....your forum???...

That's what you get for putting a guy in charge who can't even spell "Watch"......

Creator wrote:Share your love of nature with the Wacth!!

What's wrong with how I spelled it?

And, little sister - my bad - OUR forum!!

What's politics doing in this thread? The meerkats say:

Meanwhile, a miniature horse grazes...

Well, they're not in a zoo, but they are animals...Vervet Monkeys at my uncle's place.:







(I have my camera at work today, and these were on it. )

--A

So is your uncle's place known as the monkey house?

That's only some of the wildlife that regularly wanders across the grounds. The joys of living in Africa.

--A

Yeah, I guess a zoo doesn't matter as much when the wildlife is right there when you step out your front door.

I don't think I'm off base when I say Africa is arguably the ultimate destination for nature and wildllife photography. I mean, surely any self-respecting pro nature photographer wants to have Africa on his/her resume or portfolio.

Heck, I'd love to go there and shoot pictures all day and all night long, but I probably wouldn't last half an hour out there.