Focht Family Blog

Saturday was spent at the zoo. They had a lot of beautiful animals. The giraffes were very interesting. They had a feeding station where you could buy crackers to feed a giraffe. We did not feed them but we did go up to the station so we could see the giraffe’s head up close. However, after that we were walking by some other giraffes and Nathan noticed that one of the giraffes was black instead of orange. I had never seen a black giraffe so I had to take a picture.

The next animal that I was able to get a good picture of was a Siberian tiger? I think that is what kind of tiger it was. Anyways it was licking something off of a rock so it was crouched down and I took this picture just as he looked up.

Timmy likes snakes so we went in to look at the pythons. Nathan convinced Samantha and Timmy to sit by the python’s head….

The next animals that we spent quite awhile watching were the chimpanzees. We were trying to decide if the one chimpanzee was a girl or a boy when one of the employees came up and gave us an education about estrus pouches. Apparently she was a girl. The whole time we were there she was picking at herself and scratching but I managed to get a good picture of her from the front as we were leaving.

I love to watch animals that are playing. We found a group of lemurs that were wrestling and I managed to get a decent picture of them…

My favorite animal is the wolf. They had two red wolves and most of the time they stay out of sight. While we were there a police siren could be heard nearby. The male came out with his ears at attention to listen to the siren. Both wolves were beautiful.

Samantha wanted to see some flamingos. We told her since we were at a zoo in Florida we were pretty sure there were flamingos….

We love to see the river otters when they are out and playing. This otter seemed to enjoy the kids playing with him. He kept taking laps and would swim right across where the kids were standing on each lap.

Near the otters there was a stingray pool where you could touch them as they swam by. Here is Samantha touching one.

The last animal we had to make sure we saw before leaving was the meerkat. Timmy loves watching them and Nathan seemed to enjoy watching them as well. Here is one of the groups of meerkats.

We had a fun time and my mom’s college roomate, Esther, came with us. After the zoo we went to lunch with Esther and then came home to go swimming.