Tag Archives: Philly-Zoo The Pygmy Marmoset is a tiny monkey native to the western Amazon basin. It is the smallest of all true monkeys and one of the smallest of all primates. Body weight of wild adults averages only about 4 ounces. Well-fed zoo animals may be a little bit heavier. Total length (head, body and tail combined)...  Humboldt penguin checks himself out at the Philadelphia Zoo. In the wild, the Humboldt penguin is found on the west coast of South America along the coast of Chile and Peru in the region of the cold water Humboldt current. Humboldt penguins nest on islands or on rocky stretches of mainland coast, especially in areas...  The Philadelphia zoo has four Amur Tigers including Kira the Mother pictured here and her cubs Changbai, Koosaka and Terney who were born at the zoo on May 24th, 2007. Kira sat by herself while two of the cubs roughhoused in the background. The Amur Tiger is the largest of the world’s big cats. The...  his fellow walked up to me at the fence line, checked me out, decided he wanted to play and walked all the way back to his housing area to retrieve a toy. He then walked back to the fence and offered the toy to me, tempting me to play a game of sorts. He looked...  Scottish Highland Cattle at the Philadelphia Zoo on 12-20-2008. These animals are a beautiful orange/rust color. The breed was developed in the Scottish Highlands and western coastal regions of Scotland, and breeding stock has been exported to the rest of the world, especially Australia and North America, since the 1900s and is used as grazer...  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... |
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