Photo/s of the Day.
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moonvoiceGuess Where We Went Today? (ah never mind, I'll tell ya, we went to the zoo!)
PS. I was not using a zoom lens when I was taking a photo of this sumatran tiger, I was using my macro. He came WAY TOO CLOSE to me about 4000 times. Here is one of the less close shots.
Moar tiger.
This was the best photo of the spotted hyena I could get before it disappeared into the ether of 'I'm not visible to the public right now, thanks.'
Rothchild's giraffes make me laff. Look how grumpy the bottom one is! The top one is all like, cute and the bottom one is all 'yarrrr damn these school kids.'
Moar giraffe.
Giraffe in miniature!
Sexy pelican in his breeding plumage. All 'oi, come sex me up!'
Sex me up now!
The otters, Glen's favourite part of the zoo, were very shy. Not only that, but about two million entitled parents kept pushing in front of us even though all we wanted was a couple of photos and to just see them once (the kids were, invariably, almost always, more polite than the parents, seriously). Look, I realise you chose to procreate and have children, but geez, we paid full fare to get in too, y'know? Glen started singing the praises of sterilisation of the masses, and I said if I was a superhero, and had one superpower, it'd be something to do with sterilising others. The otters are cute though!
That said, finally a mother with two young children came and realised we'd been waiting about 10 minutes just to *see* something, and she invited us to stand up next to her kids. We were like 'we love you! Can we take yall home for some lunch?' Nicest. Woman. Ever.
I am actually not particularly enamoured of meerkats.
But Glen is, and they made a show about 'em and stuff. So... here's another.
Southern white rhino. Glen was possessed with this sudden urge to go and pat the rhinoceros, so after I took this photo we hurried away, Glen saying, plaintively, 'but if he decided to charge me, I could get away! And I'm sure he likes being patted!'
Also got to see the amusing sight of a rhino being non-plussed by everything ever, and then startling and running away from a pigeon that flew onto its feed. Pigeons pwn rhinos.
Maaaaaaaate.
Invisible dentist!
We avoided all the primates (cuz we don't like 'em) except for the hamadryas baboons because they were kind of on our way.
This elephant was flirting with me.
Random Australian shelduck that flew into the giraffe's exhibit and sat on a tree. It was awesome.
I can see you just fine. African wild dog.
The African wild dogs are easily my favourite exhibit at the zoo, these days (especially now that they no longer have the fishing cat. Cry). While we were there, they were suddenly possessed by this urge to play and frolic, singing and yipping and making the craziest and most awesome noises, coming by really close, rolling and tumbling, for no other reason than that they could.
And then they all settled down again. :)
This is my blank face. Old lion, and not in his usual exhibit. This was him looking up from an icy lard treat, with the best blank face ever.
Again looking up from icy lard treat of goodness.
Anyway, I took more photos and maybe one day I'll format them. But it won't be after the hour and a half (!!!) I spent at Centrelink (which blew), and then the two hours at the zoo (which didn't blow). I am now tired and going to bed. Can you believe I have therapy tonight? What a day!
PS. I was not using a zoom lens when I was taking a photo of this sumatran tiger, I was using my macro. He came WAY TOO CLOSE to me about 4000 times. Here is one of the less close shots.
Moar tiger.
This was the best photo of the spotted hyena I could get before it disappeared into the ether of 'I'm not visible to the public right now, thanks.'
Rothchild's giraffes make me laff. Look how grumpy the bottom one is! The top one is all like, cute and the bottom one is all 'yarrrr damn these school kids.'
Moar giraffe.
Giraffe in miniature!
Sexy pelican in his breeding plumage. All 'oi, come sex me up!'
Sex me up now!
The otters, Glen's favourite part of the zoo, were very shy. Not only that, but about two million entitled parents kept pushing in front of us even though all we wanted was a couple of photos and to just see them once (the kids were, invariably, almost always, more polite than the parents, seriously). Look, I realise you chose to procreate and have children, but geez, we paid full fare to get in too, y'know? Glen started singing the praises of sterilisation of the masses, and I said if I was a superhero, and had one superpower, it'd be something to do with sterilising others. The otters are cute though!
That said, finally a mother with two young children came and realised we'd been waiting about 10 minutes just to *see* something, and she invited us to stand up next to her kids. We were like 'we love you! Can we take yall home for some lunch?' Nicest. Woman. Ever.
I am actually not particularly enamoured of meerkats.
But Glen is, and they made a show about 'em and stuff. So... here's another.
Southern white rhino. Glen was possessed with this sudden urge to go and pat the rhinoceros, so after I took this photo we hurried away, Glen saying, plaintively, 'but if he decided to charge me, I could get away! And I'm sure he likes being patted!'
Also got to see the amusing sight of a rhino being non-plussed by everything ever, and then startling and running away from a pigeon that flew onto its feed. Pigeons pwn rhinos.
Maaaaaaaate.
Invisible dentist!
We avoided all the primates (cuz we don't like 'em) except for the hamadryas baboons because they were kind of on our way.
This elephant was flirting with me.
Random Australian shelduck that flew into the giraffe's exhibit and sat on a tree. It was awesome.
I can see you just fine. African wild dog.
The African wild dogs are easily my favourite exhibit at the zoo, these days (especially now that they no longer have the fishing cat. Cry). While we were there, they were suddenly possessed by this urge to play and frolic, singing and yipping and making the craziest and most awesome noises, coming by really close, rolling and tumbling, for no other reason than that they could.
And then they all settled down again. :)
This is my blank face. Old lion, and not in his usual exhibit. This was him looking up from an icy lard treat, with the best blank face ever.
Again looking up from icy lard treat of goodness.
Anyway, I took more photos and maybe one day I'll format them. But it won't be after the hour and a half (!!!) I spent at Centrelink (which blew), and then the two hours at the zoo (which didn't blow). I am now tired and going to bed. Can you believe I have therapy tonight? What a day!
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Date: 2010-08-05 06:23 am (UTC)African painted dogs are awesome. Quite endangered.
Bender does that blank look like that Lion.
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Date: 2010-08-05 06:26 am (UTC)Yes, quite endangered, they seem quite happy at Perth Zoo at least; unlike the sun bear which was doing that stress running thing at the side of its cage, wearing a furrow into the ground. Uncool Perth Zoo! I hate seeing that mindless pacing.
But the painted dogs were all like 'whee! Let's play! Play some more! Yay! We love life! Wahoo!' It was awesome, actually. And very loud.
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Date: 2010-08-05 06:30 am (UTC)Poor sun bear. :(
Nic seems to think that grizzlys are like outsized dogs. :O Rhinos are kind of deceptive too - they don't look fast until you actually see them run.
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Date: 2010-08-05 03:41 pm (UTC)On the other hand, the harpy eagle is now, like 20, and as sassy as ever. He likes his house on top of the people. His aviary has a flyway above the path. He sits and screams at passersby from up there.
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Date: 2010-08-06 12:23 am (UTC)