Zoo photos from today

[canuck]

Today I headed to the zoo since they have free admission on Canada Day. I arrived when the zoo opened and it was packed. The parking lot was like a zoo. Here are some photos..

White (black) bear. A few years ago people discovered a white cub with its black colored mother bear. People were feeding the bears along the highway which is stupid thing to do. The mother ended up being hit by a car. Luckily the zoo adopted the cub. Her name is Maskwa which means 'bear' in the Cree (Indian) language.



Grizzly Bear. Not found in the Province I live in. G. Bears are found in Alberta and British Columbia.




Amur Leopard



Meerkats



Prairie Dogs

[george]

Ooooo, look at those little meerkats!! Cute!! I went to Banff on holiday last year and was gutted to find out all the bears were hibernating so we went to Calgary zoo, I didn't see any bears there either cos the path had flooded and we couldn't get around it!! I've still never seen a bear That'll be on my checklist of things to do before I die!! Lol! xx

[Scully]

thanks for sharing Shelley, they were lovely photos

i love the leopard..stunning

[kiwi]

Wow look at the claws on that Grizzly

The picture of the meerkats is soooo cute

Thanks for showing us Shelley

George - they've got bears at Whipsnade, brown bears I think

[george]

Really?? I'm soooo going there this summer then!! #norty#

[kiwi]

Yup just had a look, they're called Eurasian Brown Bears

www.zsl.org/zsl-whipsnade-zoo/meet-the-animals/all

[laurie]

Wonderful pics!!!! those meerkats are so dang cute! them prairiedogs crack me up, although we have them here & they dug a hole in my liner of my pool from below ground the buggers!! Lovely shots canuck!!!!! thanks so much for sharing!!

[george]

I just clicked on the whipsnade link Debbie, I'm soooo going there!! Made me laugh how they have a page full of their animals and they're all really tropical sounding and then there's..... donkeys!! Lol!!