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Hooting and swimming

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While both of my sisters were here we went to the zoo on an early Monday morning. It was fairly cool that morning and the siamangs (primates) were out playing.

They were hooting very loudly so turn up the volume and play the video. We could here them across the zoo.

It’s always fun to watch the penguins swimming.

We got up close with this grey crowned crane on the backlot tram tour.

The big guys.

The zoo has an underwater viewing area and you can see the manatees swimming around and eating up close.

Taken from the Zoo Tampa website: The David A. Straz, Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center is the first non-profit, acute care facility of its kind specifically dedicated to critical care for wild manatees, and one of just four contracted federally permitted manatee rehabilitation centers in the state of Florida. Since 1991, the manatee care and veterinary team have treated over 400 manatees with more than 230 of those reintroduced into Florida waters.

There were several turtles swimming around in the manatee pools.

In the words of Dory from Finding Nemo – “Just keep swimming”.

Another “Funny Faces at the Zoo” post

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I always see red bellied woodpeckers up in the trees at the zoo.

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Everyone loves the little meerkat “clowns”.

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The marabou stork is back on the nest.  Last spring she had 2 babies. She doesn’t look too happy about having to sit there for weeks.

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The front of an Okapi.

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The back of an Okapi.

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“There’s a piece straw hanging in front of my eye. Maybe I can reach it with my tongue” says the giraffe.

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A hooded merganser snoozing over the manatee pool.

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Injured manatees recouping at the zoo manatee hospital.

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He seemed so serious in the first picture so I asked him to smile.

A few funny things at Lowry Park zoo.

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Cute faces at the zoo

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Another tourist trip during Christmas week. My sister and I spent a morning at the zoo. Beautiful and not too hot, the animals were out playing. I think that old turtle face is my favorite. He looks so prehistoric and funny with that blade of grass hanging out of his mouth. He was up moving around that morning. There’s always something entertaining at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa.