The LAST Buin Zoo pictures

[urbpan]

Yes, it's true, I've come to the end of my vacation photos, only one full month after I started posting them. I hope you enjoyed them, and will stick around for the mushroom season, wherein I post endless photos of fungal sporocarps.


South African Blue Cranes


Andean Condor


"Lobo del Mar" I assume this is what we call a sea lion. It seemed much too huge to be just a sea lion, but what else could it be?



A placid ox.


There was a pet cemetery on the zoo property, open only to mourners. Strange that so many pets are loved so much they have a graveyard, and yet I was told that "when the dogs get sick, people turn them out into the street."


Like this friendly old fellow hanging around the train platform, and hobbling about on a badly-knit broken leg. Look at the angle of that foreleg bone.

Comments

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

THat is so weird to have a cemetary in the zoo...and yea, Sea Lions get HUGE! Have you ever seen a California Sea Lion??? They are bigger than a grown man! We have them in La Jolla, which is north of San Diego. Also, I love seeing them at Sea World...:)

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

But, "Lobo del Mar" means "wolf of the sea" so I don't know...haha! :) but he is a sea lion...he has the little stub between his back flippers (well, his tail) and he has little "ears"....:)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I saw them in San Francisco, and yeah, they were bigger than a man for sure. I saw them in the Galapagos, and they were much smaller. The one in the zoo was the size of a large legless cow. It must have weighed close to 2000 pounds.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

WOW....sexy! :)

[zipotle.livejournal.com]

That dog makes me sad. Yay for no spiders. That made me look.

And how NEAT to see that condor!

[godstatic.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pictures, as always. What happened with the dog?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Well, like all the dogs we saw there, they ignored us unless we were friendly toward them (or had food). Then they hung around, wagging their tails and generally acted cute. My dad gave some of his food bar to the dog (and stopped when I told him that chocolate is poison to dogs) and it was his new best friend. The dog stayed on the platform and we got on the train and left. He probably hangs out there all day, begging for scraps. There's a snack shop there, and as it's the train stop for the zoo, there are a ton of kids who probably give him morsels all the time.