Last Sunday a late weekend in November we slept late. When we woke up the sun was shinning in the bedroom windows, as I rolled over and looked out the window there was a HUGH GRIZZLY BEAR looking through the window!
OH WAIT! That window was at the Minnesota Zoo a little later in the day at the new Kamchatka Peninsula’s Grizzly Coast display.( I’m getting old and a little forgetful). You see after breakfast and a little milling around we went down to the zoo to see the bears.
There were three Grizzlies in a realistic recreation of the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia where the bears hang out. You could stand in a window and watch them swimming in a pool of Salmon. (I think the bear was looking for a salmon to play with.)
You can see them below the water as they hunt for the salmon swimming back an forth with just their ears out of the water. During the time we watched he didn’t catch one, but I suspect that I wouldn’t want to be that salmon he was looking for.
There are three bears in the enclosure. Here one of the bears is scratching his back on the dead tree.
After the bears we moved on to the Siberian Leopards. They were incredibly beautiful creatures, but not willing to pose for a picture, so we will just have to settle for a picture of his tail.
The zoo has a couple of Tigers as well. Here you can see Margaret in the cage posing with the tigers.
Just across the walkway was a more animated version of the Tigers.
Brave Margret with the wolves!
She wouldn’t pet this one though!
As we walked around the zoo we saw sharks, monkeys…
red pandas, and sea creatures……
But here you see the most dangerous creature in the entire zoo having ice cream!
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