We visited the Asahiyama Zoo on Monday. It is the most famous and possibly the best zoo in Japan. It has unique ways for visitors to interact with the animals. My favorite of these is this first photo where the young chimpanzee is watching the kid through the plexiglass bubble. Usually it is the humans who watch the animals through the plexiglass, so this was a fun juxtaposition of normality.
We went inside to check out the rest of the Chimpanzee exhibit. We found the adult male chimpanzee was becoming agitated possibly because of the zoo keeper next door who was sweeping out the other chimpanzee cage. This agitated chimpanzee became more and more upset until all the other chimpanzee's ran away from him. The end of the video is worth seeing.
The Red Pandas were my favorite.
Panda scratch.
A real raccoon dog.
The snow leopard likes to nap above the visitors. Here you can see him walking down from his napping platform. You can see that I (Kyle) am in the middle of the photo with the purple hat and purple water bottle photographing the snow leopard.
And here is my photo of the Snow Leopard walking down the cage.
One of the polar bears was enjoying the pool.
Watch out, he has a bear snorkel! You can barely see him.
That joke was unbearable...
How to get rid of excess water.
The seals were sunning themselves.
Licking their flippers.
I seal no evil...
The king of monkey mountain.
Grooming at monkey mountain.
A face only a mother could love.
More meta-- I am on the right side of the photo photographing the giraffe.
I like how in this photo you can see the structure of the giraffe neck vertebra. It takes large vertebra to make a giraffe neck.
And last but not least the orangutans. They are Bre's favorite. There was a mother and baby orangutan.
The little orangutan enjoys his climbing.
That's all for now,
-Kyle (and Bre)
perhaps when you come back you bring a red panda as well as that genmai tea I wanted...
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