The Zoo

The Wildlife Zoo

I got a buy one get one free coupon from work to go to the wildlife world zoo. It's a smaller, family owned zoo about twenty minutes away. I like it better than the Phoenix Zoo, you can get a lot closer to the animals and it's small enough that you actually get to see everything!

It made me laugh to see the peacock sitting on it's own sign!

This is an albino Wallaby.....looks like a giant white rat, doesn't it?

These are giant porcupine, they were really big!

Side story: I've had my camera for a year and have take a ton of pictures! I mean seriously, the camera comes with me every where! It has a pretty good zoom but not great, anyway, I went to zoom in on the giant porcupines and the camera made a funny sound and suddenly the screen was a blur of gray! I actually had to zoom OUT to get this next picture!! I discovered that unbeknownest to me, my camera has SUPER ZOOM! Awesome!!!

Up close and personal with the baby giant porcupine!

The Zoo has a walk in Aviary, I took a picture of this bright little bird with my SUPER ZOOM!

These two birds were touring the aviary with us.....until I ran after them trying to take this picture!

The Galapagoes Turtles were busy digging a massive hole in their enclosure.

My absolute favorite part of this zoo are the Giraffes! They built a large platform that extends into the giraffe encloser and you get to feed them!! Here's David feeding his first giraffe!

This giraffe was extremely tall! Usually, they have to really stretch their necks and tounges and you have to lean your body half way over the rail to give them the food. I actually reached out and touched his nose!

Apparently he thought that was gross because he immediatly went to work cleaning it!

He decided he was full and left us....off in the upper right hand corner you can see another giraffe.

Ta Da....here's a picture of the elusive giraffe thanks to SUPER ZOOM!

There was also a baby giraffe...so cute! This is a picture with regular zoom..

And this is a picture with SUPER ZOOM!

There were a lot of baby animals, here's a momma warthog and her little ones.

For a worthog, the baby's pretty cute!

Zebras were so close we didn't need to zoom!

They're so pretty!

We didn't need to use zoom on the rhino either, which was kind of disturbing, especially considering that the only thing between us were two waist high wood fences! The rhino was really BIG!

This is a leopard! Just beautiful!

We went to the zoo at the perfect time, all of the animals were awake and moving around, it was really cool!

They had two white tigers that were just beautiful!

I've never seen one so close before!

Are you ready for the cutest thing ever?

They were watching the white tigers play, we couldn't get them to turn around but still.....the white dots on thier ears are so cute!

We went into the reptile house, this python marks the halfway point. We were staning and watching him reach up to the ceiling when we suddenly realized........there's no glass!!! David wasn't too excited about that since he had a friend that was killed by a pet python! Seriously!

My other favorite thing about this zoo is the Lorey feeding. On this day I was the only person, beside the worker, feeding the birds. David's back was hurting him so he sat out and took pictures as I was mobbed by the birds!

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