The Wild Animal Park also featured a number of exotic gardens to walk through and of course photographic the flora!

 

This is an Okapi, a member of the Giraffe family (not a member of the zebra family as so many onlookers wrongly assume from his leg and butt striping patterns).  The bird on the bottom frame is probably just a wild visitor - the park is a great refuge for local and exotic wildlife.  The Okapi was actually only discovered in the 20th century!

 

 

These are my friends from Oregon, Robin and Rex.    You can feed the giraffes by hand at the park (they eat some sort of bisquit).  The San Diego Wild Animal Park is probably best known for it's successful Black and White Rhino breeding programs.  The Black Rhino is on the left, the White Rhino on the right (White Rhinos have two horns).  That bottom middle shot is Rex helping out a lady ostrich friend while she was away from the nest ...

 

Here are a few shots of a herd of Scimitar-horned Oryx and look very closely for the goats hiding in the rocks in the bottom photos.

 


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