Calgary Zoo - babies galore

Garrett and I went to the Calgary Zoo last weekend and had a great time. Here is a whirlwind pictography of that trip and all the animals we saw. Truly, the Calgary Zoo is a great zoo.

First we entered the "Canadian Wilds", where we saw several moose!
North American porcupines (aka bad picture of porcupines)Bighorn sheep.Mountain goats.Woods bison.Baby woods bison.Muskox.Burrowing owls.Whooping cranes.Wolf (he didn't seem happy and was pacing in his pen).Bald eagle.Grizzly bear.Grizzly bear again.Wild snake on the path.African Blue Bellied Roller with rock hyrax creeping in the background.Tortoise.Tortoise eating.
African porcupines.HIPPOS!!Hippo eating.Giraffes with baby giraffe in the front.Momma and baby giraffe.Momma giraffe licking baby giraffe.Baby giraffe tries to reach the ground.
Eurasion wild boar (had to look that name up again from the Calgary Zoo website).
Zebras and ostriches in the background.
Lionesses sleeping.Lioness and lion in the grass.At first, we thought the lions just loved each other, but we quickly realized they were sharing some food (meat!) together.Shortly after we walked away, the lion started roaring. It was unlike the typical tv/Disney lion's roar you usually hear, so I tried to record it. However as I looked away from the camera during filming, the camera drifted. Don't try to see anything from this video, just listen to the lion.Crazy, hey?
Fun-headed birds.Crocodiles.Daddy gorilla! He wasn't very friendly-like.I didn't actually take any pictures of the mommy gorilla, but I got some good ones of the 3 month old baby gorilla that she carried around. She put him down and he rolled into the hay.
Some other kind of monkey.Wild dogs.Emu.Parrot.Kangaroo.Flamingos.Monkeys!!!Camels.Snow leopard.Red panda.Snowy owl.Tigers!And now for the finale - the BABY ELEPHANT!!Some of you might know how much I love elephants, so poor Garrett had to run after me once I saw the baby elephant in the distance. We spent a fair amount of time watching the elephants, and even sat through the informative show.I plan to expand on these pictures with a whole separate blog entry about elephants themselves, so I only showed a few of the many pictures I actually took.This big guy is the one male elephant at the zoo. He actually has tusks, although he broke one awhile ago and the zookeepers stuck a synthetic tooth cap on the end for him.