Still going through the photo folders

I am up to 2003 in the photo folders. I'm getting really home sick for the zoo because a lot of the folders I am looking at now are pics from the zoos we have visited. But now we live about 200km from the nearest zoo. Here are some of my favourites from the last couple of days.


The Mandarin Duck


The Fruit Dove


The Squirrel Monkey

We once did a "Zoo Watch" on the Squirrel Monkey - they are the cutest animals but they eat bugs and spiders. With Zoo Watch you have a shift which lasts for two hours and you watch the animal. It might be a safety watch if they introduce a new animal into the enclosure, or a behavior watch to see what the animal is up to. It also might be a watch if they open a new enclosure and they want you to keep an eye to see if the animal manages to escape.

We did a few night watches as well - one night we stayed the whole night in the zoo, there were six of us and we took one hour shifts watching the animal. They provide you with a vehicle to sit in - or to run to if they can't park right where the enclosure is and one of the dangerous animals managed to escape. I was never too worried about that - I was more worried about spiders.