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[ailsa_chan]

This one has pictures of Bristol Zoo taken on Saturday. Not terribly amazing ones, and none of the sloths or armadillos. I did finally get to see the sugar-glider, which has eludided me on previous visits. The bats appear to have given birth recently as several of them had small bats attached to their bellies. Not that you could see them, as none of them ever showed you more than their backs. You could just see little extra feet.



Western Chuckwalla



Sleepy red panda


I can see you!


Where are grapes?


Here be grapes?


This not grape!


What you mean grapes all gone? I iz checking...


Leemas like grapes. They're not too fussed about anything else. But grapes are important.

Sleepy bat. None of my bat photos came out well :(


Butterfly


Owl butterfly


Prarie dogs


Capybara (dire ginea pig)


Tapir shows his teeth. He's quite freaky looking when he does that.


Young gorilla


Young gorilla and mum


It's a hard life being a fur seal


Fur seal young - I eat your face!


Tree chicken


Giant tortoise


Pile 'o lizards

Comments

[kimmono-kitty.livejournal.com]

love the pic of the young gorilla,
he looks so cheeky!

[tom-kun.livejournal.com]

Red pandas are one of my favourite animals, so cute!

[ailsa-chan.livejournal.com]

I've seen him moving around twice now (though he never stays still long enought to photograph). Previously I've been convinced that there is no such thing and all zoos just wrap a soft toy round a tree branch and stick it there.

[takuropop.livejournal.com]

I love the lizards! Did you look in the gift shop to see if Bristol are still selling disturbing marshmallow sculptures of bees?

They exist, I swear!

[ailsa-chan.livejournal.com]

I think I know what you mean. Normally though I don't pay any attention to anything in the shop except the plushies.

Lizards are awesome. The best kind of lizards are armadillo lizards which bite their tails when threatened and turn into jagged polos of death so you can't eat them; and Australian sleepy lizards. These mate for life and during the spring the male finds his female and just walks next to her through the bush. It's so adorable. Unfortunately they like to bask on roads and don't move very fast, so they get squished quite easily.

[gunstarvixen.livejournal.com]

lol pile o lizzards!