New Zoo trip, part 4: Bears!
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dragoness_eNew Zoo trip, part 1
New Zoo trip, part 2
New Zoo trip, part 3
Swamp houseboat
Today's episode is about wild black bears (American Black Bear, Ursus americanus). Yes, we have them in Louisiana, particularly Honey Island Swamp. Yes, we have them in the Louisiana Swamp section of the Audubon Zoo.
For whatever reason, the bears were quite active that day. I've never seen them that lively in all the times I've visited the zoo before, so I was delighted to get pictures of them. The bear's enclosure is set up to look like a small boat dock on the bayou, with an old-style bathtub for some reason.
The boat dock (with bear)
Black Bear minding its own business
Black Bear, Blackberries
Bear, Bathtub
Ah'm powerful thirsty!
Another bear, with cinnamon patches of fur
If he were colored entirely like those light patches of fur on his back, he'd be what's known as a 'cinnamon bear', a color phase of the black bear.
Nice frontal view of a black bear
New Zoo trip, part 2
New Zoo trip, part 3
Swamp houseboat
Today's episode is about wild black bears (American Black Bear, Ursus americanus). Yes, we have them in Louisiana, particularly Honey Island Swamp. Yes, we have them in the Louisiana Swamp section of the Audubon Zoo.
For whatever reason, the bears were quite active that day. I've never seen them that lively in all the times I've visited the zoo before, so I was delighted to get pictures of them. The bear's enclosure is set up to look like a small boat dock on the bayou, with an old-style bathtub for some reason.
The boat dock (with bear)
Black Bear minding its own business
Black Bear, Blackberries
Bear, Bathtub
Ah'm powerful thirsty!
Another bear, with cinnamon patches of fur
If he were colored entirely like those light patches of fur on his back, he'd be what's known as a 'cinnamon bear', a color phase of the black bear.
Nice frontal view of a black bear
