Today we went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park (or Safari Park). It was really great and reminded me a lot of Disney's Animal Kingdom....although Animal Kingdom was built later so maybe it should be the other way around. The park has really large enclosures in its "zoo-like" area that you can hike around to see...and it really is like hiking. Then it has a large grassland area where animals roam together. You see this by riding a tram/long golf cart train. Here are some views of the park. It was really beautiful and kind of nestled up against the mountains.
The first thing we did was ride the tram to see the safari area. Here are some of the giraffes.
The lion was really roaring a lot and pacing. Usually when I see a lion its asleep! We found out later it was because his two females were kept inside longer than he was and he didn't like that. Later in the afternoon, when his women had returned, he was sound asleep on top to the Land Rover in the exhibit.
At around 11am, the elephant care-takers move all the elephants from one large enclosure to the other where they've set up new puzzles and hid food. The elephants get really excited and typically run to the new area as soon as the gate is opened. When we watched it, the walked through in a very orderly fashion. Probably because Mom Elephant and her new baby of 2 months walked through first. Very cute! They had over 10 elephants and several baby's around 1 year old, but this little guy was the smallest (and most active) elephant I'd ever seen.
The tiger enclose is huge. We watched the tiger climbing a tree, trying to catch some birds, for quite a while. He's pretty tough to see in the tree, but that's him nonetheless.
They also took the cheetah out on a leash, with he dog best friend to keep her calm, and talked about cheetahs with the small crowd. Jeff got a really good picture of a different cheetah in her enclosure. They also had a cheetah cub in the nursery, which was really cute.
We had a really great day!
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