New at the Zoo

It was in the paper this week, the zoo debut of a baby giraffe born about a month ago. “Let’s go see her,” Ellen said, and today we did.

Mom was very protective, baby calm and cute. Already over six feet tall!

Also new was this baby Bison likewise about a month old.

And because you can’t just look at new stuff, we enjoyed this ocelot catching late afternoon sun…

…and this male Wood Duck doing the same. Wish I could get a picture like this of the wild ones, but they’re very shy and wary of humans.

On the way into the zoo I almost stepped on this gigantic caterpillar, about four inches long and fatter than my fingers. When we got home I looked it up, it will become an Imperial Moth, as seen below.

Photo by Jack Schmidling, schmidling.com. I’ve never seen one of these in moth form, pretty impressive! An extra bonus on a visit to the zoo.