There were two of them. A smaller one where a pair of Harbor Seals, Phoca vitulina, were frolicking. Like at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, these also love to swim upside down in the water.
The larger area is for a group of 4 or 5 California Seal
Lions, Zalophus californianus.
These kids were all over the place and quite the bunch of
show-offs. What fun!
From this area, it's a short walk to "The
Edge". This is the new Amur
Tiger, Panthera tigris altaica, habitat.
It costs 2.2 million dollars to research and design and gives the tigers
a separate pair of spacious habitats allowing them to be together or apart as
is appropriate. The areas provide
opportunities to climb and to position themselves high up above visitors. I could see where they'd incorporated
ideas from the award winning habitat up-dates at the Philadelphia Zoo. The tigers were very comfortable in
their habitat--such magnificent creatures.
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