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ailsa_chan) wrote2008-08-30 07:33 am
ailsa_chan) wrote2008-08-30 07:33 am
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Fuzzily Wuzzilies and other animals
Ended up going to Longleat again last weekend. It was an event worthy of macros:
Yes, lame, but it amused me.
First stop, drop Joe's brothers off in the maze, and head into the butterfly garden outselves. It was warm and humid, so some of the pictures are a little fuzzy with moisture on the lens.
This was the elegant goth butterfly - black velvet wings and striking red body.
This moth must have been about a foot across.
Beautiful blue butterfly that landed on my wrist.
Same butterfly with it's wings closed. Shows the power of my camera to take pictures of smallish things, with crystal clarity.
Next, we went to the safari boat. This time the meerkats were out to play. There were at least two adults and three young.
On the boat, we saw playful sealions (they'd been fed enough so we couldn't feed them, but this diodn't stop them following the boat.) The gorrila was out and about, eating peanuts. He's the equivalent of 98 years old in human terms, and is probably the oldest gorrila in captivity. He has a flatscreen HDTV with freeview as well, though he did break the remote. Apparently he can recognise himself and his keepers when they are shown on TV.
The hippos were hiding and not threatening the boat this time, and the picture is fairly dull. Hunt it if you like on photobucket.
Video of baby seal:
Then we went inot the bat cave. Joe's brother decided he was a wuss and stayed outside, so we left him there for at least half an hour while we watched the bats. When we first went in, they were all up on the cieling, not doing anything. We spoke to the keeper in the room, and she put ut some food for them. First one, then quickly all of them started to get more active. We discovered that bats like apple much more than they like grape. I took this picture with the flash on by mistake, sorry little bat:
These were taken without flash, and have had the contrast adjusted in photoshop:
All the bats are male, as apprently they breed very well in captivity, and the species isn't entangered, so there's no need for a captive breeding program.
Finally, it was off to the sarafi park. The deer were all full up by the time we got in, so no feeding them this time. Managed to get some nice shots though:
The lions were very close when we came past, as in, by the side of the road. The longleat jeeps were trying to drive them away (possibly because it was feeding time?), but lions weren't having any of it. They'd get up, move five feet, sit down again. One of them even started to have a go at the jeep. It backed off at that point and left them alone.
Yes, lame, but it amused me.
First stop, drop Joe's brothers off in the maze, and head into the butterfly garden outselves. It was warm and humid, so some of the pictures are a little fuzzy with moisture on the lens.
This was the elegant goth butterfly - black velvet wings and striking red body.
This moth must have been about a foot across.
Beautiful blue butterfly that landed on my wrist.
Same butterfly with it's wings closed. Shows the power of my camera to take pictures of smallish things, with crystal clarity.
Next, we went to the safari boat. This time the meerkats were out to play. There were at least two adults and three young.
On the boat, we saw playful sealions (they'd been fed enough so we couldn't feed them, but this diodn't stop them following the boat.) The gorrila was out and about, eating peanuts. He's the equivalent of 98 years old in human terms, and is probably the oldest gorrila in captivity. He has a flatscreen HDTV with freeview as well, though he did break the remote. Apparently he can recognise himself and his keepers when they are shown on TV.
The hippos were hiding and not threatening the boat this time, and the picture is fairly dull. Hunt it if you like on photobucket.
Video of baby seal:
Then we went inot the bat cave. Joe's brother decided he was a wuss and stayed outside, so we left him there for at least half an hour while we watched the bats. When we first went in, they were all up on the cieling, not doing anything. We spoke to the keeper in the room, and she put ut some food for them. First one, then quickly all of them started to get more active. We discovered that bats like apple much more than they like grape. I took this picture with the flash on by mistake, sorry little bat:
These were taken without flash, and have had the contrast adjusted in photoshop:
All the bats are male, as apprently they breed very well in captivity, and the species isn't entangered, so there's no need for a captive breeding program.
Finally, it was off to the sarafi park. The deer were all full up by the time we got in, so no feeding them this time. Managed to get some nice shots though:
The lions were very close when we came past, as in, by the side of the road. The longleat jeeps were trying to drive them away (possibly because it was feeding time?), but lions weren't having any of it. They'd get up, move five feet, sit down again. One of them even started to have a go at the jeep. It backed off at that point and left them alone.
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James had a big moth butterfly land on his back a couple of times when we went. Most amusing to everyone else but not for him as he had to stand dead still!
Wonder if they thought he was a tree ... ?
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Could you please put the first one under a cut as well, as my tiny laptop screen (1024) can't cope with it and thus break the page layout?