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The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is the premier zoo
in Colorado Springs and
is located on the side of Cheyenne Mountain in the southwest
part of town. To get there, the best directions is to get to the Broadmoor Hotel,
then follow the signs to the zoo. Folks, this is a zoo the city of Colorado Springs can be proud of! |
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Special thanks to Wyldflower (left) and Lars
(right) for coming along and spending the much of the day with me in Colorado Springs.
(We also visited Its A Grind Coffee House later on.
Check out that link!) ;) |
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This is a spectacled bear that lives in the wild in regions of South America. |
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Inside one of the exhibits was a dramatization of a dead zebra carcass! ;p) |
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My best shot of the hippopotamus. |
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The zoo has quite a few mountain lions. Great photos! :) |
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A mountain goat. I saw quite a few of these during my hike of Mt. Princeton. |
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The zoo has quite an elaborate giraffe exhibit. There are many giraffes with the opportunity for kids to feed them crackers. |
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An owl! |
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I must confess I sometimes have a hard time with zoo animal smells,
and Wyld got a picture of me holding my nose! :-( All in all, the smells weren't very bad at all. ;) |
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How cute!
Here are my other zoo and animal pages:
San Diego Zoo
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (2003)
Manitou Springs Llamas
Clydesdales
Bighorn Sheep
Deer
Ducks at Lindo Lake Park
Colorado Buffalo Ranch
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Amazing! There are a few East African Crowned Cranes
in there. These are really beautiful birds! |
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I think I may have saved the very best photo
for last ... A peacock shows off its beauty! |
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And here's one bad token photo of
me.
Inside the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Gift Shop, I took note of this stuffed penguin
who looked kind of mean with his eyebrows and I tried to imitate it! :p) |
