Capron Park Zoo!

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Capron Park Zoo is a small zoo in Attleboro Massachusetts, near Rhode Island. It's the closest zoo to me that I hadn't been to yet (now York's Wild Kingdom holds that place), and a former coworker is a zookeeper there. In fact, I've met most of the staff from this zoo, owing to our regular zookeeper meet ups! I thoroughly enjoyed this zoo, which was clean and attractive, providing a lot of value for a relatively small space. Their lions look very different from the one at Franklin Park--a different subspecies I think.



I'd never heard of or seen these amazing Beatles-wig hogs! It's actually called The Visayan warty pig, Sus cebifrons, and is a critically endangered species from two small islands of the Philippines.


Exciting to me to see for the first time: Japanese macaque! They have an elderly couple who spend a lot of time avoiding each other, apparently.


I didn't think a bear could look goofier than the black bears I'm taking care of now, but this sloth bear proved me wrong.


This screamer came right over--friendly?


Actually, no. He came over to peck at me. I hear he doesn't like men.


Their tropical forest exhibit had these big beautiful flying foxes.


Lookin' at me lookin' at you!


This robin-chat perched right in front of us and performed a beautiful song.


We got the big zookeeper hook-up: a chance to into the exhibit and...


...feed the momma sloth!

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[stephbg.livejournal.com]

That lion picture suggests just one thing to me: heated rocks!