urbpan | 3:00 snapshot #832 (Reply)

A zookeeper as seen from inside an exhibit.

I took a bunch of snaps with my iPod, in a shabby attempt to meet my obligations: you may remember that I promised to supply some zoo animal photos in exchange for your generous donations to a zookeeper's association event (I think it was Ape Rock--we've done a bunch more since then, but I haven't bothered you about them). Of course these photos are wholly inadequate, and look like stills from a art film shot with a Fisher Price video camera. Not that they aren't compelling in a crude way, but let's just say I'll be carrying my Pentax K100D around a bit more in the next few weeks.

In the Hippo Theater, a made-for-local-TV promo for the movie Zoo Keeper has been running since the middle of the summer. It's out on DVD now, folks!

Milton the tapir was completely submerged as I passed by his exhibit! I took a picture after he came back up and it was much cuter.

Scarlet ibises stand on the wall between the anteater and saddle-billed stork exhibits.

Jockamo the giant anteater wanders through his domain.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: if you didn't see an anteater you'd never believe such a thing was real.

The lemur exhibit is one of the ones where guests can be separated from the animals by just a pane of glass.

Behind the scenes, I say hi to Azul, a hyacinth macaw. These are the largest species of parrot, and there are several at both Franklin Park and Stone Zoo.