Franklin Park Zoo

cattitude and I went to the zoo yesterday. The Franklin Park Zoo is fairly small, so we got to see almost everything (a few things were closed for the season).

There's a building that houses kiwis and frogmouths, with low lighting because both those species of bird are nocturnal. I had fun watching the frogmouths, including seeing them fly across the exhibit area, and will take Cattitude's word that there's a kiwi in there somewhere. Nearby we got a really good look at a white cockatoo, which was raising its wings so we could see the yellow underside.

I also enjoyed the lions, which we heard before we saw them. It looks as though they have two male lions in there, and no females, which is unusual. Both lions had fine manes.

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