Photo spam

[hellziggy]

Y'all haven't heard much from me lately, other than all the family housing disasters.

When bombalurina did a zoo post I realized that I had never even uploaded my pics from the last zoo trip to the server, mostly because that was the downtime for the hard drive replacement.

Ya know, it wouldn't take me so darn long to get them uploaded if the taxonomy geek in me didn't insist on having the scientific name for everything!

We'll start with my favorite subjects at the zoo, the tiger cubs.

Here is Lana:

Amur (Siberian) Tiger Panthera tigris altaica

and Nika:



OK, so I lied about the hot monkey sex (and if you clicked for that, you are a pervert! but I love you anyway...)
Blame stoney321. She is the master of LJ cuts that you know aren't true, but you have to click on them anyway.
So anyhow... More pictures and as always, to see more go to My online gallery. (there's no monkey sex there either...)

puppy!

Mexican Gray Wolf, male
Canis lupus baileyi

butterfly:

Julia Heliconian
Dryas julia

caterpillar:

Queen catapillar
Danaus gilippus

teeny tiny primates:

Cotton-top tamarin
Saguinus oedipus

and bigger primates:

Ring-Tailed Lemur
Lemur catta

And some birds:

African Crowned Crane
Balearica pavonina


Red-tailed Hawk, pigment mutation
Buteo jamaicensis


Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

emperor tamarins are cuter. with their mooostaches! eee!

um. but those other ones are cute too.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do like Como's "old man monkeys", but I've been growing quite fond of the insanely difficult to photograph "Shepard Book 'Too Much Hair!' monkeys" at the MN Zoo.

and yeah, tamarins technically not monkeys, but "old man primate" or "old man tamarin" doesn't sound as good!

(You were looking for the hot monkey sex, weren't you? C'mon, you can admit it. I won't tell anyone...)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! The color on that caterpillar is AMAZING. WOW. This was great picspam, m'dear.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Sorry about the lack of monkey sex... :)

[theatre-nerd.livejournal.com]

See my comment in your other post. :-)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

I'll cut ya some slack, it's a Monday!

Thank you!

I love my baby tiger girls! The day I took those pics I saw Ross, the zookeeper for the tigers, so I was able to confirm with him that I have their names right. I can tell them apart by looking at their faces, but I wanted to make sure I had the right name with the right face. I did! Cuz, like, everyone can tell their zoo's tigers apart by just looking at them, right?
I can't buy the calendars that have tigers on them because I'll flip through the 12 months and be like "Hey, there's only 4 different tigers in here!"

[bombalurina.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that photo of Lana! :D

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! She certainly does like to pose for the pictures more than Nika does!