Here are pics from our zoo adventure:
Watching the seals swim - I didn't get any good pictures of them because of the glass window
Sea Otter
The massive female polar bear - her feet are so HUGE!
The Moose
Watching the Grizzly Bears - they were a Big Hit
The Lynx
Umm... I think this owl is named Hedwig - it looks just like her to me!
Such a pretty girl!
Something interesting we read about camels is that they do not store water in the humps on their back, that acutally they store fat to burn for energy in their humps, and that double hump camels like this one are native to cold climates - such as Mongolia, as opposed to single hump desert camels.
Trying on brother's sunglasses - but he won't wear them!
Checking out the Reindeer - which means domesticated Carribou
Happy camper in the stroller!
The Snow Leopard - not the best pics due to where he was lying and the angles I could get through the fence since the glare from the sun was so bad off the glass.
This is the very WILD but ever popular 6 Year Old, this particular speciman we keep at home
The massive male Grizzly - check out the claws on this guy!
The Black Bear
This is where Bubba decided to throw his sippy cup off the wooden bridge we happened to be walking on, where of course, the cup rolled off the edge into such deep brush that we had no idea where it landed.
Disclaimer: The Alaska Zoo does NOT allow you this close to the animals to take pictures! All my pictures were taken with my telephoto lens - I love my 300 mm lens!
The sleeping Siberian Tiger
The Bald Eagles were singing...
... and Missy & Buddy were singing back :)
The Alaskan Wolf
Which, truth be told, were a bit of a disappointment since I was expecting "Twilight" size wolves with how people talk about how big they get here... :)
edit: Hubby read this and informed me that they do get quite large, and these are pups
edit: Hubby read this and informed me that they do get quite large, and these are pups
The kids packed around the little camera and took a bunch of pictures at the zoo too - maybe that will be another post - all of their pictures from the zoo.
And last, and maybe least due to size, is the Artic Fox
This little guy is very tiny.
We did see a few animals at the zoo that I laughed about - like the squirrel and the crows they had caged up. The interesting thing is that while WA got me very used to seeing crows all over the place, AK doesn't have crows, they have ravens, which pretty much looks like a crow that have taken steroids and are huge! They can be a little scary sometimes.
Anyway, it was a great, fun trip to the zoo and we all had fun. And while I did miss the African animals that the Seattle Zoo has, I did not miss the Bug House, and thankfully Alaska doesn't have one of those- if they did it'd probably be full of mosquitos :)