Zoo Success

We made it to the zoo - no rain, no parking problems. Amazing.

They were a little heavy on birds, we thought - but even they are interesting, if not for their plumage as much as their names: Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill, Northern Helmeted Curassow, White-Crested Laughing Thrush, Blyth's Tragopan. Just sort of rolls off the tongue, huh?

Our favorites were the primates and we got some amazing pictures that we are really enjoying looking through this evening. The siamangs were particularly noisy and put on quite a show with their booming antics. Two of them chased each other around and did figure-8 swings around each other, ending their 'dance' with a high-5 gesture. (If you want to see them, go to the Woodland Park Zoo's Photo Gallery and click on Mammals/Primates

(And speaking of pictures, we did, somehow, end up with a 'surprise' picture of a wolf taking a dump that gave us quite a laugh as well - the 'super' zoom on my camera sees more than the naked eye! I really didn't know that was what he was doing at the time.)