Our zoo is a great place for photo opportunities. On a brief Saturday visit to the Oklahoma City Zoo, we were able to go behind the scenes in the hooved mammal area to visit my oldest daughter, Radley. She volunteers her Saturdays to help take care of her passion: giraffes. My Amazing Boyfriend and I were allowed to come into the giraffe barn to hand feed Bogey, daddy to one of the zoo's newest additions, Sgt. Pepper. Following are some pics from our visit.
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| Sgt. Pepper with his momma, Ellie. She kept a close eye on the curious little fellow. |
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| Bogey, aka Daddy |
You really don't get how BIG these graceful guys are until you are up close and personal with them. Bogey's head is probably a good three feet in length from lips to those nobby things up top. Enormous jaws, useful for ripping small branches off of trees, I guess. It was a real treat for us.
This is a snow leopard who was practically posing for us, and while I could have gotten a little closer in hopes of more effectively blurring out the fence wires, I generally like this photo best of those I took in this visit.
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| Snow Leopard |
But then again... on a
second third look, I really like this one too, even though he blends in with his background, and everything's a little overexposed. Again, there are fence wires intefering somewhat, but this one just strikes me better somehow.
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