Noisy Animal Day
Dec. 17th, 2011 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merionesSo many noisy critters at the zoo today! Started off the morning in Tropics and the wonderful gibbon morning concert. Tia wasn't participating though so it was only Bailey, and Tia is the real loud mouth of the pair. Shortly thereafter the lemurs started their screaming, and the colobus monkeys started hollering in return! I had read about how loud they can be but have never heard it before! The birds didn't want to be left out either, so now the hornbill and argus pheasant were calling out as well! This is why I love being in the tropics building not only that time of day, but this time of year. All these awesomely deafening animal sounds surrounding you and not a ton of screaming kids to ruin the vibe. :)
There's one warty pig that will always come over when I stop to say hi. The same one the zoo tweeted a picture of yesterday, actually. This time he actually came running over, making that cute pig grunting noise, and stretched his little snout as close as he could get to me. SO CUTE!
The goral was running and leaping about down at the bottom of their exhibit which was a nice treat. Normally they are so high up on the rocks all that can be seen is the top of their head.
Got to do a hognose snake animal encounter for the first time in over a year due to the snakes being off handling. They've only been back on the handling list for about a month. She was having a hissy fit as I was getting her out, hissing and head flattened like a cobra, but she settled down quite nicely and yay I've missed holding snakes!
End of the day I got my hour outside on the Northern Trail. The horses were neighing and nickering (and of course quit once I got the camera rolling) and the tiger out on exhibit was actually roaring! I've heard the sound coming from some unseen tiger off exhibit and inside holding, but never a tiger actually out on exhibit! I wonder if Molniy was doing that in reaction to being split up with his brother Vaska and longtime exhibit mate? Those two have been together for years and getting along great (a rarity when it comes to male tigers) and have now been split up for breeding. Vaska to a zoo in Illinois and Molniy will be paired up with a new female coming in by the name of Whirl. I've been told she has a stumpy tail so I'm kinda curious as to what she looks like.
And the remodel for the new dhole exhibit is beautiful! Check out the gazebo entrance:
close up of the door details
There's one warty pig that will always come over when I stop to say hi. The same one the zoo tweeted a picture of yesterday, actually. This time he actually came running over, making that cute pig grunting noise, and stretched his little snout as close as he could get to me. SO CUTE!
The goral was running and leaping about down at the bottom of their exhibit which was a nice treat. Normally they are so high up on the rocks all that can be seen is the top of their head.
Got to do a hognose snake animal encounter for the first time in over a year due to the snakes being off handling. They've only been back on the handling list for about a month. She was having a hissy fit as I was getting her out, hissing and head flattened like a cobra, but she settled down quite nicely and yay I've missed holding snakes!
End of the day I got my hour outside on the Northern Trail. The horses were neighing and nickering (and of course quit once I got the camera rolling) and the tiger out on exhibit was actually roaring! I've heard the sound coming from some unseen tiger off exhibit and inside holding, but never a tiger actually out on exhibit! I wonder if Molniy was doing that in reaction to being split up with his brother Vaska and longtime exhibit mate? Those two have been together for years and getting along great (a rarity when it comes to male tigers) and have now been split up for breeding. Vaska to a zoo in Illinois and Molniy will be paired up with a new female coming in by the name of Whirl. I've been told she has a stumpy tail so I'm kinda curious as to what she looks like.
And the remodel for the new dhole exhibit is beautiful! Check out the gazebo entrance:
close up of the door details
