Lions and Tigers and Bears...

...well, more like camels and elephants and takin, at the San Diego Zoo this afternoon. After three days of workshops for library science educators I took the afternoon off to visit the San Diego Zoo. It's a great zoo (although, as Brie pointed out on FB, it's not free like the St Louis zoo is). I took some amazingly good photos with my phone. My only regret is that my battery died before we got to the pandas (maybe Chris will share some of hers). Anyhow, here's some of what we saw...


I don't actually remember what these are called but they are akin to antelope and were waiting anxiously for their supper to arrive.


One rhino sleeping in the sun.


Some of the koalas (they are marsupials, not bears) were sleeping and some were munching eucalyptis




Striped hyenas playing (the spotted ones were alseep)

This guy (again, I don't remember his name) looked like a statue but he was actually munching the leaves off this tree:


This humming bird was not actually part of a zoo exhibit but he was sitting obligingly on a branch so I took his photo!



Grizzly bears...


Elephants


Cheetah waiting for supper



Hungry camels


This bear (maybe a sun bear) very much wanted to play with that toy in the water but he wasn't willing to go in to get it.


This is a baby takin, very cute, about the size of a calf...


and this is the baby takin with his mommy (or maybe daddy, it was hard to tell).