Thanks for the kind comments :blush
Here is the ....
African section!An elevated pathway towers over the asian elephant exhibet. If you walk across this you will come to the
african elephant exhibet. Why would I have two elephant exhibets next to eachother? This allows viewers to see the differences between asian and african elephants in their natural habitats. Following the road throughout the elephant exhibets you will enter the
african wild dog exhibet. Most of the dogs are brown, but one adult is lighter along with her two pups.
Across from the elephants and wild dogs is a huge
african herbivore exhibet. There are three giraffe, nine sable antelope, a dozen gazelle, two black rhinos, and six zebra. There is
plenty of room for grazing to keep the grasses from being devoured completely and being turned into a desert.
The next, and last, savannah exhibet belongs to the
lions. The pride in this exhibet is very large. There are two males that run the pride together, five females, and their ten cubs. Eight of these ten cubs will be shipped to Africa when they are 6 months old so that they can begin the long, hard training for the release back into the wild.
Now the tour will bring us into the swampy wetlands of Africa. The first exhibet holds
hippos and flamingos both wonderful attractions to the zoo.
flamingos Next up are the terrifying
nile crocodiles, huge animals frm Africa. These animals in the zoo are actually quite harmless.
"Oh NO!! Nile Crocodile 3 is chasing down the tour jeep, everyone run around in circles with your hands above your head!" :lol
This old girl is blocking the path.
The
last exhibet concludes our African section, and the jeep tour. The scimitar horned oryx and camels make lovely companions.