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A couple of weeks ago, Cyn and I went to Disney, in Florida. I've finally gotten around to finishing my photos, so here are a few of them.
On friday afternoon, while Cyn was at her conference, I scouted out the wilds of Africa and Asia, so I knew the best places to take her on saturday. This was Animal Kingdom, the newest Disney park, just over ten years old. It's a zoo-slash-theme park. I assume they treat their animals as well as any good zoo, and the enclosures seem to be better than most. The gorilla pens, for example, were very impressive. Hills, streams, woods. They two small tribes of gorillas.
They still seemed kinda bored. We saw this one through the glass on the side of her pen that was less natural looking.
This big guy climbed up a stream and picked some bamboo.
Then he walked up through the woods...
And found a sunny spot to sit.
It all had a jungley feel.
Looks like this guy was rowing.
The park also had some rides, like the Expedition Everest roller coaster. There was one attraction that combined a ride with the animals. It was a safari thing. They loaded everyone into big buses that were outfitted like they were going out on safari, and drove us through the African savanna.
The bigger and more dangerous animals were penned off from the bus, like these enormous Nile crocodiles, rhinos, elephants, lions and
Hippos (livelier ones than this, too!).
But many of the animals were wandering openly on the grasslands. Giraffes, antelopes, kudu, ankole cattle (shown here), wildebeest, etc. An ostrich walked right up to our bus, and we saw several ostrich nests (eggs lying on the ground, really).
The downside to this sort of tour was that you couldn't stop and watch the animals. But then they had a huge number of people to move through, so maybe that was a good thing. On the other hand, the animals didn't have a steady stream of people wandering around and staring at them, they had a steady stream of noisy buses.
The driver acted like she was a real safari guide, and was on her radio with some locals who were trying to track down some poachers. We were able to help them out by scaring the poachers away.
On friday afternoon, while Cyn was at her conference, I scouted out the wilds of Africa and Asia, so I knew the best places to take her on saturday. This was Animal Kingdom, the newest Disney park, just over ten years old. It's a zoo-slash-theme park. I assume they treat their animals as well as any good zoo, and the enclosures seem to be better than most. The gorilla pens, for example, were very impressive. Hills, streams, woods. They two small tribes of gorillas.
They still seemed kinda bored. We saw this one through the glass on the side of her pen that was less natural looking.
This big guy climbed up a stream and picked some bamboo.
Then he walked up through the woods...
And found a sunny spot to sit.
It all had a jungley feel.
Looks like this guy was rowing.
The park also had some rides, like the Expedition Everest roller coaster. There was one attraction that combined a ride with the animals. It was a safari thing. They loaded everyone into big buses that were outfitted like they were going out on safari, and drove us through the African savanna.
The bigger and more dangerous animals were penned off from the bus, like these enormous Nile crocodiles, rhinos, elephants, lions and
Hippos (livelier ones than this, too!).
But many of the animals were wandering openly on the grasslands. Giraffes, antelopes, kudu, ankole cattle (shown here), wildebeest, etc. An ostrich walked right up to our bus, and we saw several ostrich nests (eggs lying on the ground, really).
The downside to this sort of tour was that you couldn't stop and watch the animals. But then they had a huge number of people to move through, so maybe that was a good thing. On the other hand, the animals didn't have a steady stream of people wandering around and staring at them, they had a steady stream of noisy buses.
The driver acted like she was a real safari guide, and was on her radio with some locals who were trying to track down some poachers. We were able to help them out by scaring the poachers away.
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Date: 2010-02-04 05:21 pm (UTC)From:But the band on the bird's leg in the last picture kind of spoils the effect.
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