A Smithsonian National Zoo Photoblog

Big feets.

Visited the Maryland Zoo again, this time not in like 95º weather.


The arctic fox was a lot more friendly and active this time. Probably because it wasn't so hot.


I've never seen them just floating around before.


The chimps were being very vocal while we were there. The dominant male was obviously showing everyone else their place. Here the two chimps were grooming each other or something. Looked like they were kissing, it was cute.

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.