Lions and Tigers (but no Bears), oh my...

[Fuzzball79]

Some photos I took during our recent zoo visits

Ring Tailed Lemur

Very pretty Spider Monkey (love those blue eyes)

Sunbathing

My husband's and mine wedding pic lol

Kookaburra

2 of 4 rescued ex circus lions from Belgium. They're all neutered males, hence why they don't have manes

Arctic Wolf female

More of the lions. So glad, they've got a nice life now (they were stuck in a trailer and badly abused with cattle prods and whips)

Evil looking Scottish Wildcat hybrid (they interbreed with house cats and there are hardly any pure wild ones left) plotting to kill all humans

tbc....

 

[Fuzzball79]

Safari Park now:
African Lioness

Big Daddy

Baby Macaque

Amur Tigress (after the wolf my favourite wild animal)

Male tiger, but no breeding partner, because he's a hybrid

She still loves him though

Penguin group hug

Harris Hawk

The display was great, so funny and everyone got their own private fly-over

Beautiful Vulture

 

[Fuzzball79]

Bed time for the lions

There's a rather large cat walking towards my car...

 

[Enn49]

What a lovely set of photos

 

[Thistles]

Not only are the animals beautiful, the photography is very impressive! Awesome shots!

Kookaburra should be captioned "Cheeky little ****," though.

 

[MassExodus]

Excellent

 

[leaveittoweaver]

Beautiful photos! Thank you for sharing. I love going to good zoos!

 

[Fuzzball79]

Not only are the animals beautiful, the photography is very impressive! Awesome shots!

Kookaburra should be captioned "Cheeky little ****," though.

Thanks.
The Kookaburra was actually really docile (thankfully, because it was a walk through aviary lol). I've seen one at another zoo that kept flying at the cage every time someone walked by.

 

[Thistles]

Thanks.
The Kookaburra was actually really docile (thankfully, because it was a walk through aviary lol). I've seen one at another zoo that kept flying at the cage every time someone walked by.

Looks like he just had a bath.

 

[Fuzzball79]

Quiet possible, the birds have a few ponds to swim and bathe. It's a nice small privately owned zoo - Five Sisters, Scotland. They seem to be taking in mainly rescue animals, although they breed their inverts, reptiles and amphibians quite successfully. I wrote about the circus lions, but they also have 3 ex circus bears who now have a massive woodland enclosure to roam in.
Same with the wolves: They're two females from another zoo, who were not getting along with the rest of the pack. They have a hillside like enclosure with caves and hides and more space than some bigger packs have in other zoos.

They also take in ex-pet parrots and give them more adequate aviaries with lots of room to fly and climb and play. You can tell some used to be pets. The parrot in the photo below comes right up and when you talk to her she answers back and when you say "You wanna dance?" she starts bopping up and down. She's so sweet.

 

[Thistles]

****atoo more like crackatoo.

Those birds are insane, but total lovebugs.

 

[Fuzzball79]

****atoo more like crackatoo.

Those birds are insane, but total lovebugs.

I know, I couldn't keep one myself or any parrot, but I like interacting with them. You can see how intelligent they are and how much they crave attention. Their beaks scare me a little though.