Rtas' zoo pics

Some more beautiful and funny pictures. I love the bear lady, she's so friendly looking!

Thank you Roger ! I love her too, she is the reason why the sun bear is one of my favourite animals, if not my favourite animal ! I am lucky to have a pair in Brittany as it is a rare species in France.

Species : Linnaeus's two-toed sloth

Spot : La Bourbansais zoo, Brittany, France
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This sloth was photographed in the closest zoo from my hometown. I go there quite regularly and as a result, I have witnessed things I would not have seen in one visit. Like this two-toed sloth which is very, very, VERY rarely active ! Actually, I had never seen a sloth so active before taking this picture !

Awwww! Sloths are really really adorable I never got to see the sloth at Chester as I had no time left, and it is a massive zoo.

Also nice zoo pics

That's a very sharp photo, mainly considering how active was your sloth. I love these creatures, three of your last four photos represent species that Mojö was the pioneer. Well, my post sounds like a tv advertising.

Indeed, though I did not do it on purpose !

Species : Western lowland gorilla

Spot : Valley of the monkeys, Vienne, France
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Since my childhood, I go to the zoo with my grandparents very often and I still do today. My grandfather especially enjoys monkeys and apes, he can stay hours watching them interact with each other, so we tend to favour zoos with many different primate species. As we came back from holidays in central France, he wanted to make me discover his favourite park so we stopped at the valley of the monkeys, a zoo exclusively dedicated to our closest relatives. This is a very beautiful park, very careful about animal welfare, with large enclosures full of trees the monkeys can climb. The species presented are very interesting and it is the only zoo in France which keeps bonobos. Today, I will not show you the bonobos ( I may do it another day) but a female western gorilla enjoying her meal.

What a beautiful girl, she seems like she's enjoying her leaves.

Species : African spurred tortoise

Spot : Alligator bay, Normandy, France
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Some of us evidently do not respect the quarantine and social distancing rules ! However, I can reassure you, this picture was taken a few years ago, in Alligator bay, a large reptile centre close to the famous Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy.

Really?! Two totoises copulating how lovely Moving very swiftly on, I have always enjoyed seeing tortoises at my second closest zoo as I was able to work with them as well as the elphants, lemurs, camels, penguins and sea lions.

All your zoos in France seem marvellous, and I'm tempted to visit any zoo I can next time I go to my chalet near the Alps.

Species : Laced moray

Spot : Oceanopolis, Brittany, France
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I thought an aquarium pic would change from the usual zoo ones. This moray eel was photographed in Brittany's main aquarium : Oceanopolis. It is a very large one, the second largest in France, and it keeps very interesting species like the sawfish, the bowmouth guitar fish, the sea otter, the king, gentoo and rockhopper penguins and several seal species like the very rare bearded seal. Thus, this moray is far from being the most exciting animal in Oceanopolis but I have always loved to photograph those creatures which are as beautiful as menacing.

Very beautiful moray, it looks like you are in the enclosure with it! :)

Species : Emperor tamarin

Spot : Valley of the monkeys, Vienne, France
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Another picture from the valley of the monkeys, my grandfather's favourite animal park. But this time, it is a much smaller species with even tinier babies ! In this zoo, most little monkeys are kept in large "aviaries" where visitors are allowed to enter. As a consequence, the primates can be watched in their daily life as closely as possible and intimate pictures like this one are easy to take.

I visit all my zoos and safari parks with my grandfather as we do anything nature related together. Before my school shut for Covid 19 my grandfather and I were reading my second favourite bird book and we both fell asleep together. My grandmother found it ever so amusing.

On my mobile phone which was my camera before I got the Nikon D5300 I have some photos of the very adorable primates at a zoo I visited last autumn.

Species : Asian small-clawed otter

Spot : Spaycific zoo, Sarthe, France
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This otter was photographed in the same zoo as the gibbon mom and baby, a small park known for its unusual species. It was just coming out of water when I took the picture. Otters are my mother's favourite animals and she chose today's picture.

Another one of my local zoos has these otters and I got maybe 5-7 photos of them. I'll post photos when I get time and create a topic from that day out. My uncle loves otters and finds them ever so amusing, when I am showing him my shelves he always looks for my two species of otter.

Nice otter

Species : Raccoon dog

Spot : Trégomeur zoo, Brittany, France
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The raccoon dog has an appropriate name. Despite being a canid, it looks like more a raccoon. Quite an unusual species not so common in animal parks. This one was photographed in Trégomeur, that zoo specialised in Asian wildlife I already told you about. Indeed, the raccoon dog comes from far east Asia, especialy in Japan where it is known as a shapeshifter in local mythology under the name of "Tanuki". It has been introduced in Europe for its fur.

beautiful animal and photo

Thanks Kostas !