On Saturday, October 11, my daughter, Catherine, 36, and I went to The Oregon Zoo, formerly the Washington Park Zoo. The zoo is located two miles west southwest of downtown Portland, Oregon in Washington Park. It was founded in 1887, making it the oldest North American zoo west of the Mississippi.
We walked across the Great Northwest Tree Top Suspension Bridge with a view of Cascade Canyon. We wandered through the various animal exhibits. My favorites were Bats and Meerkats in African Rainforest; Reticulated Giraffe in African Savanna; Ocelot and Blue Poison Dart Frog in Amazon Flooded Forest; elephants Rose-Tu and Rose-Tu's baby named Samudra; Polar Bears, Malaysian Sun bears and American Black bears in Bear Exhibits; Leopards and Amur Tigers; Humboldt penguins in Pacific Shores; Steller Sea Lions and Sea Otters in Stellar Cove; Red-Handed Tamarins and White-Cheeked Gibbons in Primates; Beavers and North American river otters in Cascade Stream and Marsh; Bald Eagles in Eagle Canyon; Mountain lions, American Black Bears, Bobcats in Cascade Canyon; and a high open air aviary for people to walk through (an "airlock" sequential door arrangement keeps the birds at home.)
I am looking forward to the Predators of the Serengeti Exhibit in 2009. It will have Lions, Cheetahs, African Wild Dogs, Caracals, Scorpions, Chameleons, Nile crocodiles, Mongoose, red-billed hornbill and Aye-Ayes.
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