Ok here are some pictures of the red pandas, Shama and Wicket. 
Red panda lieks loli.
Sleepy.
Curled up together.
It has a feets.
I think this may have been the 'baby' porcupine, but I'm not sure.. It was sleepy like always.
And here's a puff. It's a degu. It has a nom.
I hadn't seen the baby wallaby at all until today when it was out for a little bit.
Haven't updated in a while, so here are some fresh pictures from today.
Here was a duckling that got separated from its mommy. The mommy flew over the fence and the other two ducklings squeezed under the fence. This one was getting stuck.. Funny story though, I missed a pretty lols moment when the mommy duck attacked a woman for coming too close to one of the ducklings. Well, maybe next tiem..
Here's another baby, one of the baby rheas that hatched in April, trotting along with mommy.
The pygmy falcon isn't a baby, it's just pygmy..
Bath tiem!
A new baby was born at the Smithsonian CRC in Front Royal. The mommy has been taking good care of it, and you can see for yourself on the webcam!
I hadn't seen the baby for a while and now he's huge. Okay, well I guess he is already almost 3 years old.
Here's the mommy I believe:
Yeah, that's how I sleep too. Cuz you know that morning sunlight...
Teh little is not little anymore.
The older one was tossing some dirt on herself while on the other end, the little one was rolling around in the water.
The little gets pretty aggressive with her toys...
The keeper seemed to be having fun. She would throw out a frisbee or a stick and the sea lion would fetch, and be rewarded with a little fish. No picture, but the sea lion would actually toss the little fish snack around a bit first and then eat it.
I was disappointed to see that they had closed the red panda exhibit:
But later found out that the pair had been temporarily moved to the small mammals house. After talking to a couple of the volunteers, I found out that they were making the outside enclosure a bit more secure. No one knew for sure, but the rumor is that the red pandas had either gotta out or were able to get to parts of their enclosure where they weren't supposed to be.
These are their temporary houses..
Fuzzy picture, but this is the way to nap...
Okay, so the Cockadoodle Zoo event at the National Zoo wasn't all that I was hoping for.. The animal feedings that I saw weren't so interesting, and I either missed the ones I wanted to see or couldn't see them well because of the crowds.
In any case, still got some good pictures though.
Fishing cat has an itch:
On a separate note, yesterday was a very sad day. I lost a very good little friend after being together for two and a half years. My little Nini, little Nietzsche-chu, you had a big name just like your sister even though you were little. You were always the "little one" and were sometimes bullied by your sister a bit, but always tried hard. You liked to run, never ate too much like your sister, and always kept a nice neat comfy nest.
Little Ni, you've always kept us company, Wagu and I will miss you.
Ok it was like 95ºF that day so I wonder how these guys were handling it. The polar bear has a pool which must have been nice, but I think the arctic fox only a fan or something in its den. Poor puff.
Here's another from the Maryland Zoo. The keeper of the petting goats put her hat on a goat so I'd get an interesting picture. I got the impression that she does it a lot...
I went to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, MD last weekend with the FONZ photo club and met some new friends. The Maryland Zoo, while smaller and with less variety than the National Zoo, was still pretty interesting as they have a very nice African safari setup there.
Some of the more popular animals there were the elephants because of the new baby, Samson, who is around 3 months old or so.
Being that young, Samson still follows his mom around.
Of course, being that young, Samson is also very curious. Here the keeper had put a bucket of stuff just beyond the barrier and he just had to find out what was in it.
While working with the keepers, I got the impression that Samson felt very accomplished here.
"i is in a tire and has a stik!"
Here, I got the impression that the keepers felt very accomplished. For what? I does not know.
One of the smallest birds of prey, the pygmy falcon...
Without looking at them closely, it's easy to forget just how strange alligators look. I mean, they look, ancient.
I never really noticed before how aggressive looking the tiger's mask is.
Also totally reminds me of Chinese opera masks..
I saw the orangutans crossing the "O-Line" the other day, which is a set of suspended cables that the orangs can use to cross between two sections of their enclosure.
None of their aerial pictures turned out right.. ;;;
