I love the Zoo!!

 This is a black bear-taking a bath!-they have a nice area-with a bridge-railroad trestle-trees-lots of rocks and grass-and a couple square meals a day-plus free health care!

 Six new 2 yrs and younger giraffes-they were transported-all male-in 13 foot horse trailers-enclosed-not like the old circus pictures we used to see(with their heads sticking out)!

 The monkeys and apes live on little islands in a lake -they can't swim-(so they don't need to be in cages)-they go from a couple islands to the other on rope bridges-and we go in a boat around the islands to watch them.

 The alligators are in a separate lake and we don't go near that!  Two fences around that!

One came all the way from California-one from Denver and the others from Florida zoos! No animals are caught in the wild for U.S. zoos-only born and traded in captivity-or rescued injured.

We love the Naples Zoo-it's about an hour down the road and we spent all day yesterday-husband loves the snakes-see photo! and alligators!  I prefer the giraffes- zebra and monkeys!

Brrrrrrrrrrr....................cold for July.....!

These days it's feeling here like these penguins at the Bronx Zoo last summer! I'm trying to keep in mind that when we were there it was in the 90's at least and the humidity was sky high. They were discussing a dip in the nearby pond!