Winter Zoo

Our entertainment for Saturday was a visit to the Bronx zoo.   We discovered pretty quickly that we did not have much competition along the walkways.  Few other brave souls were walking around the zoo areas in 25 degree temperature.

We were also surprised to discover that Long Island and the Bronx have more snow on the ground than we do here in upstate.

Thankfully, many of the animals that we did see were in indoor buildings.  There were no visible animals outside in the snowy areas.  I do wonder where many of the animals might be housed for the winter, or if indeed they still live there.   Or it may be that some of the buildings are closed for the winter, or our tickets did not get them into certain areas.  We did not see any in the cat family----no lions or tigers,  no foxes or baboons,  no elephants.

We saw lots of reptiles in the reptile house,  and lots of birds in the Bird World.  We did see crocodiles and alligators and turtles and also seals.  The largest animals we saw were giraffes.

It is a vast place, and we were on our feet walking for three hours, some of it uphill. My calf muscles are sore today! I discovered that three hours on my feet is about my limit!   The walking and the cold made me quite exhausted by the end of the day!

A Mongoose

A Parrot 

Now that we have done the Bronx Zoo, we can check that off of our list.