Lar Gibbon at the Oakland Zoo
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Panda Bear at the Chiang Mai Zoo, Thailand
Proboscis Monkey: Lok Kawi Wildlife Park in Borneo, Malaysia
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The sleepy Binturong
This picture of a Binturong, aka a bearcat, was taken at the San Diego Zoo some time ago. This is probably one of the stranger looking mammals I’ve seen, almost as strange as an echidna or platypus, because it kind of looks like a cat, a raccoon and a sloth at the same time. The animal hits a weight of around 25-30 pounds, which would put in right in the neighborhood of a small dog (probably why some people in SouthEast Asia keep them as pets!).
Malay Sun Bear at Low Kawi Wildlife Park (Borneo, Malaysia)
Lok Kawi Wildlife Park is a zoo on the island of Borneo,located in the Sabah province of Malaysia (Borneo actually has three countries with a presence on the island). The zoo had a great collection of animals that are largely endemic to Malaysia only, so I would recommend taking a few hour trip there to check it out.
These Sun Bears were playing around and I decided to take some snaps. While I am no expert in animal behavior, my guess is that the smaller bear is displaying submissive behavior to a male.
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The Thinking Orangutan
The orangutan is slowly becoming my favorite primate because of their facial expressions. When I see a picture like this, it is hard not to wonder what the orangutan was thinking about at that particular time (“Am I going to get out of Singapore Zoo?”, “What’s for lunch?”).
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Panda Bear Walking at the Chiang Mai Zoo
The only reason I’m posting this is that this is one of my most viewed photos at Flickr. While I don’t think the picture of the Panda Bear is bad at all, I actually like a number of other Panda pictures that I took at the Chiang Mai Zoo that day. I guess it just a matter of taste…I largely enjoy doing a lot of close-up photography work.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
This Western Lowland Gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo may have been in the mood for love (or he was just hungry, which is probably far more accurate than any kind of hormonal drive). It is very hard for me not to be anthropomorphic with members of the primate family, since their expressions are not that much different than ours when displaying anger, sadness or other items we define as uniquely human.
White-handed Lar Gibbon at the Oakland Zoo
Given the bad rap that Oakland gets, not to mention that it is always second fiddle to San Francisco in many ways, I was actually quite surprised at how nice the Oakland Zoo is. Most of the animals in the zoo had a great deal of space in their exhibit, and they were generally pretty active compared to the animals in the San Francisco Zoo (perhaps it is due to the foggier nature of San Francisco).
This White-Handed Lar Gibbon was obviously very deep in thought when I took this picture. I’ve also had the good fortune of seeing gibbons in the wild while in Thailand, and I’ve also been to the Gibbon Rehabilitation Center in Phuket, Thailand (former pets or injured animals that they try to rehabilitate to put back in the wild).
Note: It is very common to see people with Gibbons that you can take your picture with in Patong. Please don’t take your picture with these animals, as cool as it may be, because the gibbon is only there because the mother was killed to get the infant. I made this mistake on my first two trips to Thailand:-(
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