Cougar Mountain Zoo is just around the corner from us and after 2 years of living here, we finally decided to give it a try. We've heard from friends that this is a small but very good zoo and well.... it's small. You can walk the whole thing in about 15 minutes, and that's at a leisurely pace (no joke!). The nice thing though is that it's not crowded (read: we saw maybe 10 other people there during our trip) and you can get pretty close to the animals. In fact, you can get close enough to feed some of them, and close enough that they post signs that you're in the tiger "spray zone". There were also lots of volunteer rangers in many of the animal areas and they were very friendly and happy to talk about the animals. The highlights were the baby wolves (super cute! But alas, I didn't take pictures), the tigers and the mountain lions.
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| Cranes? can't remember what these are, but they're neat! |
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The zoo has the largest collection of private
bronze art animal statues. |
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| Lots of different types of tropical birds. |
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| Go faster, camel! |
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