I took a solo trip to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa during an unexpected day off in December. Here are a couple of my favorite shots including the baby pygmy hippo and baby orangutan.
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Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa, Florida
Just a few pictures today from our visit to Lowry Park zoo in Tampa.
Babies on the Brain
Sorry for anyone checking in for the lack of updates recently. They are probably still going to be a bit sporadic for awhile. At least I have a good excuse. My wife recently gave birth to our third daughter, Emery Rose Paulson. As you can imagine pretty much all my […]
Lowry Park Zoo
I couldn’t resist posting a few more shot from our Lowry Park Zoo trip. Here is another shot of the two young elephants playfighting. They seemed to get along pretty good and the younger one mostly followed around her older “sister”. The second shot is of an orangutan which are […]
Mavi and Mpumi – Lowry Park Zoo’s Baby Elephants
This morning we took the kids to visit Lowry Park Zoo and made a beeline to see the new baby elephant. The new baby is named Mavi and was born July 29th. She was not too active until her “big sister” Mpumi came out and then they walked around and […]
Baby African Elephant, Lowry Park Zoo
There is a new baby African Elephant at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. These shots are actually of the last baby elephant that was born at the zoo. It was fun to watch the baby interact with the other elephants and run around and play like a toddler. [facebook]
Baby Elephant, Lowry Park Zoo
Here is something you don’t see every day. A baby African Elephant nursing. This is the baby elephant from Lowry Park Zoo. The second shot is the baby playing peekaboo. Actually he was just behind the post and exploring it with his trunk, but that is not as good a […]
Lowry Park Zoo baby elephant named Mpumi
Well, the cute baby elephant at Lowry Park zoo finally got named. It was named Mpumi, pronounced “Em-pumi,” meaning success or achievement in Swati. Swati is a Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa (thanks Wikipedia). The morning we were there this little one had a lot of eneregy […]
Chimpanzee and Orangutan at Lowry Park Zoo
Although the baby elephant was very cute and I do have a lot more pictures of her I figured I should take a little break and show that there were some other animals at the zoo also. All of the primates are always fun to watch. You never know what […]
More baby elephant photos
I had so many good photos of the baby elephant from Lowry Park Zoo that I had to post a couple more today. By teh way, loving the new camera. My pictures from the zoo came out much sharper than with my last camera. I did very little processing of […]