These are the first animals you see when you enter the zoo.
Lemurs relaxing in the shade.
Male orangutan. His family went inside for some privacy!
Sun Bear, relaxing and snacking.
Waiting for the tigers to be fed.
And now ... tiger photos! We had about 50 of these!
We could identify with this!
Doing a spot of prowling!
Time to cool off!
Waiting for food.
Catching the food. Very ferocious!
These tigers are Bengal tigers. According to the keepers, there is quite a
large population of these in the wild, around 5,000. This is because the
Indian government is taking great care to preserve them, with special areas set
aside etc. This is, of course, good for the Indian economy, because of the
eco-tourism industry. Some of the most endangered sub species of tigers
are the Sumatran and Siberian. Apparently the Siberian is faring worse
under democracy than it was under the old regime!
Thanks very much to the keepers at Miami Metrozoo for all the excellent
information!
Here is a link to the Miami zoo
website.
