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Panda-In-A-Tree This is the zoo's baby panda bear, Tai Shan, climbing a tree. |
Panda-In-A-Tree, II The point was to take a nap. |
Panda-In-A-Tree, III The branch was just *barely* strong enough to hold the cub. |
Panda-In-A-Tree, IV But it was cute to see the baby struggle for the good show-off spot... |
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Panda #2 - Mei Xiang This was the baby's mother, happily munching away on her leaves. |
Panda-Watching Crowd There were a lot of people there, many with cameras better than mine. There was also a Beth there with me. |
Panda Nap Awww... |
Coming Back Down He didn't fall! Be impressed! |
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Panda #3 - Tian Tian This is the baby's Dad, lounging around in the adjacent cage. |
Giraffe I really need a better lens the next time I go to a zoo, so I can get better close-up shots. |
Elephants Playing Heading out for a quick walk. |
Elephants Playing, II They seemed happy to be wandering around. |
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Elephants Playing, III I need to hang out with Danny more, so I can play with these guys... |
Capybara That's a big rodent. Is it bad that it seemed friendly? |
Nile Hippo This was the first animal that we got to be really close to. |
Nile Hippo, II And man, was it huge! |
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Nile Hippo, III It made scary noises, too... |
Nile Hippo, IV Beth and I were, of course, absolutely fascinated. |
Nile Hippo, Showing Off Those are big teeth! |
Nile Hippo, Showing Off Again I'm absolutely positive that he was posing for the camera. |
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Shut Again Hodling your mouth open is hard work when there's no food involved. |
Going Under The hippo went off to ignore the world for a while. |
Pygmy Hippo Aww, that's so cute! |
Pygmy Hippo #2 Okay, so they're still huge, but not compared to the regular Nile Hippo. |
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Feeding the Anteater Yes, it's a statue. I pose sometimes! |
Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin I tried to get good shots in the primate house. |
Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin, II At least in a few cases I was able to figure out the names of the animals. |
Primate House I didn't do a very good job of dealing with the lighting, or the animals names. |
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Toucan Or at least it looks like a toucan, kindof. |
Something Nocturnal I don't know what it is, but it's fairly cute. |
Groundhog Zoo-worthy? |
Some kind of Shrew I wish I was better at identifying animals. |
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Sengli These guys were really cute big shrews. I like this shot. |
Otter Well, it looks otter-like, anyway. |
Leopard Cat At least I think it's one |
A Monkey I can't tell which one it is. Oh well. |
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Degu At least I think they're Degu. They look like gerbils. |
Gorilla Past the Glass This was the best shot I could get of the large gorilla that was sitting just on the other side of the glass. *sigh* I tried. |
Gorilla If you turn your brightness up, he turns out well... (I should do some post-processing.) |
Silverback Gorilla A decent shot, but his back was (obviously) turned. |
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Orangutan with Popcorn A good snack for everyone! |
Orangutan with Popcorn, II He was definitely enjoying his treat. |
Patagonian Mara I figured out their name! Hooray, National Zoo web site! |
Iguana Or something like an iguana, anyway. |
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Blue-Tongued Skink I really have to get one of these again. |
Blue-Tongued Skink, II Beth tried earlier this summer, but we couldn't afford it at the moment... |
Snakes I can't really identify them well, but they're reasonable pictures at least. |
Snakes, II Sometimes I even get action shots. |
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Snakes, III This is a copperhead, anyway. |
Gecko You will not sell me insurance! |
Large Snake Some kind of python, likely. He's gorgeous, at least. |
Bearded Lizards I like these guys too. |
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Bearded Lizards, II Maybe we should get one of these too... |
Another Python Another gorgeous snake. |
Large Iguana-Thing I'm sure it's not an iguana. |
Pair of Turtles It actually looked like a two-headed turtle at first. |
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Crocodile Hanging out with the turtles. (Maybe it's an alligator, I don't remember.) |
Komodo Dragon For some reason, my komodo dragon pictures end up in textbooks sometimes. |
Komodo Dragon, II They are nifty creatures, at least. |
Freshly-Molted Lobster This lobster had just molted a couple of hours before... |
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Old Exo-Skeleton That's the old exo-skeleton. Isn't that *cool*? |
Current Body One more shot, to show off the difference. |
Blue Crab That's a pretty guy... |
Draw The Crab's Picture ...and apparently he wants his picture drawn. Hmm. I didn't know that they were that smart! |
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Cold-Water Invertebrates Look! That man is an invertebrate! Are all zoo-keepers invertebrates? Have they no backbone? |
Self-Luminescent Jellyfish It would have taken a lot of work to get a perfect shot of these guys; I wish I had had the werewithal to really try. |
Octopus Thing He was cute! |
Mollusks I don't know what these guys are called, but they're nifty. |
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Big Hermit Crab They get big? I didn't know that. |
Spider I like that they had a spider section of the house. |
Spider, II The webs were really impressive... not that Beth looked too closely. |
Old Lobster Exoskeletons Showing off what happens to the old stuff. |
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Tarantula Big spiders are cool-looking. |
Scorpion I'm less fond of these guys, for some reason. |
Horseshoe Crab It probably isn't a horseshow crab, but oh well. |
One Last Lobster Shot The lobster was just too cool to ignore. |
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Butterfly House, I I tried to take a few pictures in the butterfly house. I always do. |
Butterfly House, II But my heart is never really in it... |
Butterfly House, III ...probably because I can never identify them later anyway. |
Is a Cow a Tool? Yes. Duh. (They thought that livestock was exotic in DC. Ha!) |
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Caracal That's a pretty cat... |
Sad Tim Why is Tim so sad? |
Why Tim Is Sad The Tiger exhibit was closed! No cats! |
Inside the T.Rex Don't swallow him, giant head! |
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Tigers Okay, so the tigers were around. |
Tigers, II They were just being lazy. No shock there. |
Taking the Hog No, Beth, you can't have that! |
Cute Ground Hogs Not that I understand why there were multiple statues of ground hogs, mind. |
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Fat Lynx This guy was significantly over-fed. |
Fat Lynx, II And you could tell that he was happy about it... |
Fat Lynx, III The zoo-keepers were trying to make him get exercise by putting his food all over the cage. He didn't care; he's just slowly go over to it over time... |
Soulless Ground Hogs The eyes. The EYES! |
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Rays Stingrays are always neat animals to watch. |
Rays, II The water was really good for pictures. |
Rays, III They're pretty, they move weirdly, and you can sometimes touch them. |
Under a Ray I didn't get a good shot of the underside of a ray on our cruise last year, so I was happy to get this shot. |
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Big Fish, I These guys were from the Amazon. |
Big Fish, II The signs indicated that these ones could feed a family for a week... and the others could feed a small *village*. |
Big Fish, with a Scale That's Beth's hand there. That's a big fish! |
Big Fish, III There were also turtles. |
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Big Fish, From Above They don't look quite as impressive from above. |
Beetle of Beetles For my little brother, the ex-entymologist. |
Beetle Inscription "The beethle outline above is Chiasognathus Granti (Grant's stag beetle) from Chile." |
Playful Seal It was starting to warm up a bit, so the seals were definitely having a good time playing in their setup. |
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Tired Sea Lions Nap time! |
Bald Eagle Is this Little Stephen? |
More Fat Lynx Continuing to slowly, lazily stalk his prey. |
More Fat Lynx, II ...and by "prey", I mean "balls of meat". |
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More Fat Lynx, III Oh, the life of a fat zoo animal looks fun! |
Otters Playing The jump-off-the-side game is endlessly fun for them, and lots of fun to watch too. |
Otters on Land They don't look quite so graceful as they waddle along... |
Tim at the Zoo Can you tell that we were getting a bit tired? |
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No Comment Beth was shocked, and wanted me to take this picture. I just hope it doesn't make it into the Google Archives, so I'm keeping the key words down. |
Back to the Hippo Once we'd seen the rest of the zoo, we decided that we wanted to check out the hippos once more. |
Hippo, Side Those are big animals. |
Hippo, Back to Lunch That's a nice close-up shot of the guy. |
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Hippo Eating Yes, I got too many pictures. |
Hippo Eating, II I'm even having a hard time choosing what pictures to drop. |
Hippo Eating, III I should get one of these guys for Christmas. |
Hippo, Re-Entering the Water He actually took some time out for some diarrhea first. |
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Diving Hippo Only a hippopotamus will really do. |
Snorkling Hippo I really don't want a stupid doll, or tinker-toys, or anything like that... |
Relaxing Hippo I just want one of these guys to play with. I'd certainly enjoy it. |
Best Hippo Shot This was the best hippo shot I got, I think. |
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Last Hippo Shot Okay, time to stop taking pictures of the giant guy. |
Elephant There were other large mammals in the large-mammal house. |
Elephant, II I believe it was a whole family of Asian Elephants. |
Elephant, III This is the old, wizened head of the family. |
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Elephant, IV And this one was the cute baby. |
Emu I've seen plenty of these in my life, thank you. They're more fun when they're out of their cage. |
Scimitar-Horned Oryx These were neat savannah beasts. And they're extinct in the wild, apparently. |
Cheetah Wandering around the cage, looking for something useful to kill^H^H^H^Hdo. |
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Cheetah with Dinner Mmm, the slowest food imaginable... |
Sleeping Cheetahs That's a nice little cat-house. |
Zebra in the Distance It was going to be too much effort to get closer, and we were getting really tired of walking. |
What's For Dinner? This was an excellent exhibit. You stand on a scale, and find out what animals would you eat you on the African Plains. I'm a young zebra! |
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