Summer Vacation Redux #26, Denver Zoo, part 6

At this point I crossed over to the northern part of the zoo without even realizing it by just following the pathway.  This area had habitats for a mixture of animals and some were not display.  Most notably MIA were the Black Rhinoceros and the Humbolt Penguins.  There were opportunities to see Hippopotamus, Dall Sheep, Hooded Capuchin Monkeys and Grizzly Bear.  

Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, chilling in the noonday sun.

A pair of Dall Sheep, Ovis dalli, shared a faux-mountain--Relatives of the Bighorn Sheep, and native to Alaska and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and the Yukon.

An island with old growth trees was home to a colony of a dozen or so Central American, Hooded Capuchin Monkeys, Cebus apella cay.

This magnificent structure, known as Bear Mountain, was built in 1918 and is considered the first naturalistic animal exhibit in any zoo in the United States.  Today it is home to a group of White-faced Coatimundi--none of whom were on display.  And yet just seeing this veritable work of art was worth it on its own.

Just a little further along was a pair of WWW era Bear habitats--A very common construction project at zoos across the United States during the Great Depression.  There were inter connected and the current home of a pair of active Grizzly Bears, Ursus arctos.