Thursday, 8 December 2011

Behind bars in San Diego

Once we got back to San Diego we met up with Alan, the really nice photographer that we met on our Kodiak bear trip. He was kind enough to take us to the world famous San Diego zoo, and even kinder to give us his free passes!


The Indonesian bear cat or binturong is an amazing animal that look like a cat but has a prehensile tail like a monkey.


A stoned koala snoozes


Does my bum look big in this?


Hyena snoozing in the sun


Check out the takin in the china exhibit, they are like a yak crossed with Alf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)


Giant panda Gao Gao a 19 year old adult male.  We only got to see the youngster, 2 year old Zun Li for a second before he was enticed behind the scenes and the door shut behind him!


Gibbon (not funky)


Zac pictured with his hero


Oh dear............


Alan checks out the polar bear


We hope the sloths in Costa Rica are a more manageable size


Baby capybara, very cute, just like a guinea pig!


A future in science for Zac?

Having worked at the zoo years ago and being a frequent visitor to the zoo Alan showed us an easily unnoticed restaurant near the gorilla enclosure, here we had great food and margaritas to round off the day.

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