While we were in Ohio, we took a day to go to the Columbus Zoo. My brother, who lives in Ohio, and his family have a year pass, so we went together. There are no elephants in New Zealand, so the children badly wanted to see one.
While we waited for my brother’s family to arrive, we took a few pictures. They were setting up for the Lantern Festival, so there were cloth sculptures like this all over the zoo (picture below of one of them).
Our first stop was the sea lion exhibit–and the first thing we saw there was this diver cleaning the cage!
The sea lions swim around, over and under a glass tunnel that we walked through. We enjoyed watching them.
There was a glass underwater viewing area for the polar bears, too.
Reindeer
Wolverine
Hyenas
Finally, the elephants! This one was playing with a stick, putting it in her mouth and crunching it. A young one was throwing sand all over itself. The big male was in an enclosure by itself, and we watched it eating hay from a large net bag, very carefully pulling some out and putting it into its mouth.
When we walked up to the flamingoes, the entire flock raced over to us, honking loudly. I had never imagined that they sound so much like geese!
Miss Joy had ben asking if we would see an alligator. She was enthralled, and spent several minutes studying it.
The children’s aunt bought tickets for them to ride the carousel.
We enjoyed watching the gorillas eat their meal. The baby was really cute!
There was a baby orangutan, too.
I had never seen a koala before!
