San Francisco Zoo {Animals}

After checking out the Oakland and San Francisco flower marts on Monday my mom, Page (soon-to-be) sister in law and her daughter Jewels went to the San Francisco Zoo. I took shots of the animals and the flowers.

Here are some of my shots of the animals from the day.

This little guy was way too cute. He was licking the window. I can't find him on the SF Zoo site.

While in the African Savanna many animals joined in a three-acre exhibit. Viewed here is the head of a giraffe who shears his home with kudu, crane, ostrich, spur-winged goose, oryx, Marabou stork and zebras.

Chilean Flamingo

Eurasian Eagle Owl is one of the worlds largest owls with a wingspan of 6
feet and weighs about 9.25 pounds.

This female was intercepted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service after being smuggled into America.

A Barn Owl was resting on a zookeepers arm and we got to watch it eat some meat.

African Crowned Eagle.

Only about 10 of these live outside Africa.

This koala, along with a second one were given to San Francisco from Sydney, Australia. This one is named Zakery.

We came back to the Koala Crossing exhibit for a second time to let Jewels (who was sleeping through most of the zoo) see them. When we came by the first time he was sleeping, but I was able to catch a glimpse of his open eye the second time we came around.

This baby is named Hasani (born on Dec. 8 2008 [Mother=Monifa]) is lived in the Jones Family Gorilla Preserve.

It was too cute. Little Hasani was looking up at a squirrel climbing up the tree and then fallowed it up into the trees.

The Preserve is home to four females (Nneka, Bawang [daughter and mother, respectively], Zura and Monifa) and the sliverback male (Oscar Jonesy).

This was too cute with the gorilla sitting in the bucket.

The Australian WalkAbout is home to red and grey kangaroos, and wallaroos. Above are two red kangaroos eating grass, but I thought it almost looked like the pair were kissing.

Baby Kangaroos are called "Joey" and I didn't see any in the pouches, but after going through my photos I did find one big belly, which could have been a Joey inside it's mommy's pouch.

Within the Fisher Family Children's Zoo (just an area of the zoo) were these little prairie dogs.

Another in the Monkey area, but I can't find a name for who was pretty active.

It's Rafiki from the Lion King. Not really, but it's the same kind of animal -- a mandrill.

Lipman Family Lemur Forest is the home to many different lemurs (three pictured here under a heat lamp). My favorites are the black and sliver ones which are called ring-tailed lemurs.

This is one of the largest homes for lemurs in the US. It also is the home to black lemurs, black and white ruffed lemurs, red ruffed lemurs, and the ring-tailed lemurs.

They look like they are bored. There wasn't too much action going on when we went by just a lot of sitting, laying and licking.

The barn owl again.

The two grizzly bears in the zoo live in the Hearst Grizzly Gulch. Both are females (Kachina and Kiona) and have 1 acre land which contains heated rocks, herb garden, mountain stream waterfall, sunny meadow and a 20,000-gallon pool.

Yet another one in the monkey family where I don't have a name for.

And again eating.

This male peacock was on the wall near the rhino exhibit, but not with his feathers out, which would have made such a better shot.

These peacocks were all over the zoo in many different exhibits and just walking around the paths.

And his tale/feathers after I got a little too close which forced him to jump into the exhibit.

The flamingo again bathing.

A blue herein in the children's zoo. Mom loves these and her camera had died by the time we got here so I took the shot.

The cute little baby turtles.

The first of two hummingbirds we saw while walking through the zoo.

There were two of these birds and there beaks looked odd -- Mom was thinking something might have been wrong with them.