Location: Washington DC
Size: Large
Visited In: March 2007
Rating:
Fun Facts:
- Pandas spend 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and eating.
- Gorillas have unique fingerprints.
- Cheetah tails are 30 inches long.
The best part about the zoo was the geography of its enclosures. There were plenty of places where you could view the animals from above, and then loop around and view them again from down below. The enclosures were fairly open as well - not a lot of glass in the way, which is always a bonus for taking pictures (and just cooler, in my book).
The Giant Pandas were a surprise - I knew the zoo had one, but I wasn't expecting so many! I think there are four, plus a baby we didn't actually get to see. Admission is free. You have to pay for parking, but it wasn't as bad as we had been led to believe. It was neat being able to see animals from the parking lot. The cheetahs were right along the outside as you walked in.
The zoo is pretty big, and you could easily spend most of the day there - especially if you had kids. My brother and I are pretty fast zoo-walkers and it still took us a couple of hours. There were a bunch of events, of course. We caught the elephant washing (somewhat anti-climactic, to be honest) and the sea lion training (more fun, particularly when the sea lions were more interested in playing with their fish than eating them).
I'm not really into birds, but there was a decent aviary section as well.
Favorite Animal: Red Panda
Unusual Animal: Pandas - like, 4 of them!
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