Next stops were quick hops. It was nearly noon and I was hungry. So I visited the Great Ape house and
then the exterior yard where I discovered two of the zoos three mature male
Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla). The larger of the two tracked down the smaller Gorilla. Then he displayed by beating his
stomach and charged him against a concrete wall where upon he snatched a burlap
sack from him and draping over his shoulders proceeded to climb back up from
the lower wall and parade his booty around the confines of the yard. The other Gorilla just sat against the
lower wall, pouting. It was really
a thrilling display of Alpha power.
Then I ran through the Reptile house. Another really old structure that has been retrofitted and
updated over time. I was struck by
the Romanesque architecutre and a pair of interior doors that seemed to be
direct references to Bellini's doors on the Baptistery of Il Duomo in Florence,
Italy.
Still, been there so many times that I didn't stop to focus on any
particular animals, mostly. The
sun was making any good photo of the larger animals (crocs and gators)
impossible. The halls were
crowded. I only took time to snap
one image. It was of a Caiman
Lizard (Dracaena guianensis). I'll
return to spend more time here on a winter's day.
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