I must say that taking pictures of any of the tamarins at the San Francisco Zoo is quite daunting. In addition to the Pied Tamarins being extremely active (jumping all over the place), the glass display really works against you because of finger smudges on the glass, flaring from the sun, and the buildup of condensation.
The Snow Leopard is one of the more mysterious of the big cats (little is known about them because they live at fairly extreme altitudes). As I hadn’t been to the San Francisco Zoo in a little over a year, it was nice to see that the Snow Leopards were moved in to a public viewing area so I could actually take photographs of them (I believe the two leopards were in the cat house for quite some time, which wasn’t accessible to the public following the tiger attack there several years ago).
The one drawback about San Francisco Zoo these days: all of the dangerous mammals have quite a bit of cage and fencing around them now, so taking photographs of some of the animals isn’t quite as easy as it used to be.
Cute little guy (or gal, didn’t check that closely). While I didn’t have the opportunity to see the orangutans in Borneo in as natural of a setting as I would’ve liked at the Rasa Ria Reserve) , it is simply amazing how you can see how “human” these animals are with some of their mannerisms (very much like a young child, dependent on help and desiring affection from a figure regarded as a parent ).
I got bored today and decided to trek up to San Francisco Zoo to take some snaps today. While I think the zoo isn’t the best in the world, it is generally less busy than places like the San Diego Zoo & there are still a number of cool animals there (my favorite zoo, or favourite for you Brits, is still the Singapore Zoo). I snapped this picture of a Western Lowland Gorilla & was fairly pleased with the results.
This little squirrel monkey was so cute at the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park in Sabah (Borneo), Malaysia. While the wildlife park is more like a zoo than a park, the animals appear to be well-taken care of and there is a variety of wildlife in the park that is native to Borneo (squirrel monkeys are not, obviously).
There were two difficulties with getting this shot: it was taken through a fence; and my lens on Sony DSLR was pretty fogged over from the air-conditioning from the ride over in the taxi. If anyone has any tricks on not having your lenses get condensation when moving from a cool to hot location, please let me know.
I love ring-tailed lemurs (and all lemurs). This particular picture was taken at the San Francisco Zoo, and the lemur exhibit is probably one of the nicer animal enclosures that can be found at the zoo (there are several types of lemurs in the enclosure).
If I am fortunate enough to go to Madagascar one day, I will be going because of the lemurs.
One of my favorite exhibits at the Singapore Zoo is a walk-in aviary that they have. While aviary would seem to mean “birds”, the aviary at Singapore Zoo has a host of birds and other animals, so you will find many smaller mammals inside of the exhibit as well ( a baby lemur kept attacking my shorts).
I caught this three-toed sloth doing what they do best…sleeping!
