Finally, a new post - I try to update once a week, but somehow don't always manage it. Last Monday we went to the zoo - well it's a
farm zoo. I don't really know what that means, but there are big cats (lions, tigers, pumas, panthers, jaguars), small cats (ocelots, margays, etc), monkeys, lemurs, wallabies, some exotic birds, rodents, and reptiles; your traditional zoo animals. Then there are some owls, eagles, bears, skunks and other captured Nova Scotia wildlife (most of them seemed to have been orphaned or injured in the wild). And finally there is an assortment of domesticated animals like emus, ostriches, geese, ducks, llamas, camels, goats, deer. Here are a few pix:
A couple South American rodents - an agouti and capibara
A few more mammal - some kind of small ungulate, a llama and a porcupine
Birds of prey - bald eagle, screech owl (I think), barred owl
Some fowl photos - a duck and a goose,
a white peacock and a frizzled chicken
A bird and its feet should ne'er be parted...an emuAnd last, but not least, some reptiles - lizard, snake, and (little) turtle
(don't ask me what kind, I can't remember)
A huge THANKS to Sharilynn for telling me how to get the photos side by side (you can click on them to see a larger version in a new window).
3 comments:
Hey, the Oaklawn Farm Zoo is the one that the Tiger, Fritz, that was in Hands-on Bio came from. Do you remember my tiger drama?
Fritz came from NE of TO, but from a similar type of farm zoo - I think it's called the Bowmanville Zoo. I remember the drama...poor tiger tail.
Nope, honest. It was Oaklawn. There was a bunch of controversy about it, some people thought he came from the Toronto Zoo or Bowmanville, but it turned out in the end he was from the Oaklawn zoo. He had been on display in the Halifax airport for many years as well. I think there is another tiger there now (do you know?)
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