Dickerson Park Zoo (2)
/Continuing about our visit to Dickerson Park Zoo…
The animal sculptures in various places around the zoo are interesting as sculptures…and sized to provide good climbing experiences for young children.
I realized about halfway through our visit…that I was somehow skewing toward photographing birds more than other animals. The grey-crowned cranes are one of my favorites in zoos I visit.
There were children feeding the giraffes….and I tried to get a picture of the youngest one. It is still the smallest…but growing fast; the adults don’t give the youngest a break at the feeding platform, but the human children try to hold out to feed the ‘baby.’
There were two white storks. I wondered if they had an egg.
The red ruffed lemur responded to a sound my son-in-law made…I took a picture through the glass of its enclosure.
The king vulture enclosure contained two birds…they have very unusual heads (the glass between my camera and the birds was not very clean unfortunately).
Several capybaras were relaxing in the afternoon sun. Just before I wrote this, I found out that my grandnephew had gotten a plush toy capybara at the San Diego Zoo on the same day as our visit to the Dickerson Park Zoo; what a coincidence!
