Taking the day off from the motorcycle journey today, about 3000 miles so far and another 5 days to go. We went to the Tulsa Zoo for most of the day and had a blast. Except for the fact that every elementary school in the surrounding area must have decided to take a field trip on this same day, each school class wore color coordinated shirts. The poorer schools just wore whatever. Lots of shouting screaming kids in enclosed places is not fun for the animals or me. Whichever direction they went we went the other.
Together we took close to 350 pictures at the Zoo so I’ve split this up into 3 posts for the better ones. I tried to put down the names of some of the exotic species, if you know what something is that I left off feel free to let me know in the comments. Enjoy.
The lions must have been having marital problems. She’d keep licking and pestering him and he’d gruff, grumble and occasionally let out a loud roar right at her. Shed keep at it and he’d get up and move to the other end of the enclosure, a while later shed be back over messing with him, heh. It was funny to watch. Woman! Leave me alone!
Lions
Lion Cubs
Zebras
Cheetah
Giraffe
Galapagos Tortoise
These are huge
Tortiose Statue
They had a very cool elephant exhibit, it had lots of things for the kids to play with. A hand cranked fan to show them how the big surface area of their ears keep them cool and other similar things like they have in the Albuquerque Natural History Museum. One company must make all these things and sell them to zoos all over.
Elephants
Cultural images of elephants
Buddhist elephants
Hindu and modern elephants
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