As I noted I’m splitting our trip to the San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium into three parts. The first part was look at most animals, and the second part was dedicated to their amazing collection of birds. This final post is my favorite: cats! They only had five small cats. The clouded leopard and ocelot [...]

I went to the Cincinnati Zoo over the weekend. I’m becoming quite the regular. As I got hung up waiting for Mitt Romney’s motorcade, I missed the day phase. I was actually OK with that, as it gave me ample opportunity to test out my Night Hunter camera settings and processing. The fishing cats do [...]

I’m not quite sure why it took me so long to go see the cat ambassadors at the Cincinnati Zoo. Yesterday was the first official show we got to see. They made a few tweaks, but it was fun. For starters, they talked about training a house cat, and the difficulty in that…all while a [...]

You would think we’d be getting our fill of cats with Eddy, Beso, and Luna. However, we decided to go to the zoo earlier this week. The cheetah keeper was giving a talk, and who better to demonstrate the grace of a cheetah but Miss Nia! Isn’t she a beautiful girl? Cheetahs don’t hunt in [...]

Last Friday night was Members’ Night at the zoo. Naturally, my family and I were anxious to go check it out. We got to see the second Cheetah Encounter of the season. Minnow was there! She is quite the lovely fishing cat… As always, she made quite the splash Jambo demonstrated the serval’s ability to [...]

A week and a day ago, the Cincinnati Zoo’s giraffe had a baby. It was available to be seen by the public on Tuesday, but we just got out to see her today. There was a line to see her, which we happily waited in. On the way, we met Forest, a ball python, and [...]

This was the last weekend for the cheetah runs at the zoo. It was also “Hallow-Zoo-Ween,” when they set up trick-or-treating. So, we went out to see the cats. We went to the cat house, where there was a bobcat. I should note that those who really know him call him “Robert.” The snow leopard [...]

While we were cry excited to see Nia run at the cheetah show last time we went, we were disappointed Minnow, the Fishing Cat, didn’t make an appearance. There was a tweet over the weekend: she’s back! Sunday, we went to see, and she did great! Minnow, with trainer Linda. Minnow demonstrated how fishing cats [...]

Last year, the Cincinnati Zoo’s Cat Ambassador program got a new baby cheetah, named Nia. She had her first birthday last month, and is running in the shows. I got to see her run for the first time today. She has it down! She can catch a lure. Of course, she also likes treats…does her [...]

A few days after going to the San Diego Zoo, we went to the Wild Animal Park. This is another campus about thirty miles north of the main zoo. Here, they have larger enclosures. There will be another post about that in a bit. However, as soon as we walked in, we discovered we had [...]