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! :)