Yearly Archives: 2008 Male Snowy Owl from the Lehigh Valley Zoo in Schnecksville, PA. Taken on Saturday 12-27-2008 during very bad fog conditions, in low light, through a cage (kids, don’t try this at home ! ). There was almost nobody at the zoo and the fog was so heavy, you could barely see a hundred feet ahead...  Male Mallard flying back into the pond area at the Fleetwood Park on Friday afternoon 12-26-2008. You don’t always see them when they fly in but I noticed that the fly-ins are usually precipitated by a distinct series of calls from the Mallards already at the pond. If you hear those calls, it’s a sure...  Mallard Hen flying into the pond at the Fleetwood Park on Friday afternoon 12-26-2008.  These two Amur Tigers were a lot of fun to watch. The one on the right would walk up to the one on the left and continually pat him on the head over and over again, taunting him until the one on the left would lash out and slap the one on the right upside...  Although once thought to be related to giant pandas, recent chromosome studies place the red panda in the raccoon family and the giant panda in the bear family. Modern molecular data suggests the raccoon and bear families diverged from a common carnivorous ancestor 35-40 million years ago Red pandas are small with an overall length...  A huddle of three Ring-Tailed Lemur at the Philadelphia Zoo on 12-20-2008. The Ring-tailed Lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30 individuals. It is also matriarchal, a trait common among lemurs but uncommon among other primates. To keep warm and reaffirm social bonds groups will huddle together forming a “lemur ball”.... |
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