Furred and feathered and scaled, oh my!

Zoo day in other words. My daughter had the day off(yay Columbus) and I hadn't been there in a couple of years, so off we went. Oklahoma City has a pretty nice zoo, and they've done a lot of work on it over the last ten years or so. Among other attractions are some of Steve's neighbor's kin:


Some of the Man Camp Lizards' kin:


More distant kin:



And it seems African Porcupines love sweet potatoes:


There's a section called Aquaticus with a group of sea lions, one of whom wanted to be friends:

Alas, 'twas not to be. She's cute, but the wrong damn species.

For some of Marv & Mayhards' kin, right now they've got a flock of lorakeets you can feed. $2 for a small cup of nectar, which some of them were apparently checking this guys camera bag for.

Daughter got a cup, and when she walked in the gateway and held it out it looked like a scene from The Birds; little buggers swarmed her and fought over the stuff. They use their tongue to lick the stuff up, and they didn't leave a trace in the cup or lid. If you ever go someplace with these, I give you some advice: do NOT stand under where they perch, they pee like a shower coming down. No, I didn't get peed on, but I saw some other people get a treatment.

They've got a big cat area with jaguar, fisher cats, tigers and lions and bobcats; African plains critters with antelope, Cape buffalo and black rhino; two Indian elephants, pygmy hippo, bighorn sheep and a lot else. Last thing we saw was an otter, who developed an itch:

There's a group of them, but the others were apparently napping. This one made up for it, though. And a good time was had by all. As far as I can tell, anyway.