The Denver Zoo

All summer long I've wanted to go to the zoo, and we finally made it the other day. Yea!We made it to the zoo just in time for the sea lion show. I really enjoyed the show. Having never been to Sea World, I had never seen a sea lion do tricks before. It was a funny little show to watch. This is the backside of a turtle. I was to slow with the camera to get a rather picturesque shot of the whole swimming turtle. Much like the Hoogle zoo the Denver zoo has a rain forest/jungle building full of snakes, fish and other reptiles. They even had piranha I was very surprised to find out that piranha are sparkly fish. I always thought they were boring brown or something like that. They also had an anaconda that was the thickness of 1 1/2 of my legs. It was huge. I took one look at it and ran away to the next exhibit.

In front of the giraffes. They had a bunch of animals that I had never seen at a zoo before. Like a cheetah and hyenas. I am standing in front of an eland. (pretty sure that is what it was called). An animal that not only and I never seen but I had no idea that it existed. Playing on some bongos.

Kenny in front of the gorilla. This is a wildlife show that they had, it was mostly birds, but it was really fun to go to. The birds flew all over the place. When we went in we were told we had to stay seated through the whole performance, and it became quickly apparent. I thought I was going to be scalped by a hawk when it flew over our heads, and that is while we were seating. You can't tell very well, but there is a bird landing on that pole. I don't remember what kind of bird this was though. The bird flying here is a vulture. It was fun to see the different animals, and to see how well trained they all were. This is an African wild dog. Yet another animal that I have never seen in a zoo. They had a huge pack of them. And they also had a pack of wolves there. Remembering all these animals, I realize that we should have taken more pictures, to show to everyone. Next time we go to the zoo I'll take a bunch of pictures. :) All in all it was a wonderful day at the zoo, and I was glad that we finally went.