It was almost impossible getting a picture of this baby Western Lowland Gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo. Like many other toddlers, he was totally rambunctious and spent most of the time rolling and jumping around.
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.
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.
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 is a picture of a Polar Bear sticking his tongue out (not at me, I hope!) from the San Francisco Zoo a little bit ago. A couple of things about this picture stand out to me:
1. The color of the Polar Bear’s tongue is kind of mottled.
2. The skin of the Polar Bear is actually not quite as white as I would have expected. While I assume this to be an issue of the living conditions in a zoo, I think many people think the fur is going to be as white as snow.
This is a picture at the San Francisco Zoo of some Sumatran Tigers fighting, a picture that was made much more difficult because of the security procedures now in place because of the tiger attack a few years ago (fence, security glass, etc.).
