So, yesterday we went to Toronto Zoo. It was pretty amazing. Sure, on a snowy February day a lot of the outdoor African animals were nowhere to be seen but there was so much else to observe and it was all so well-designed and (best for me) it was all fairly free of human crowds (it being a Monday in midwinter). Highlights were the Tundra section (Arctic wolves and foxes and h’s favourite 3 majestic polar bears), the Sumatran orangutans and the Western Lowland gorillas but it was all pretty spectacular. Mark took a lot of photos but the best of them (still quite a lot) can be seen here.
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Great pictures! Still wishing I had H's hair. Sigh. If I died it, it probably wouldn't look right, would it?
Oh Lord - DYED, not died. !
I used to dye my hair something like that colour... about thirty years ago!
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Don't go and dye on us, Bug! Made me chuckle! I'm always doing that - typing the wrong homonyms, not dying (either meaning).
Oh, what was I ...ah, yes, so nice to see winter animals getting the appropriate climeat in a zoo for a change, though! Nothing more pitiful that a malting beast on a slab of concrete! Super pics - soooo envious!
Also, I keep seeing this blog pop up on my blog roll and thinking, who the hick is that - then remembering, tis t'other Rachel!
A polar bear eating a carrot isn't something I ever thought I'd see!
The bears had herring for main course and carrots for afters. They really took their time over the carrots - seemed to enjoy them.
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Cool pics mark...the bear with carrots look quite surreal
The Toronto Zoo is quite a trek, isn't it? We went about 10 years ago now. It's sort of an every decade kind of thing.
I'm always of two minds when I visit - excited to see the animals up close, but sad that they have to be there at all.
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