5: at the zoo - the auroran sunset

Here at abelard.org, we take a lot of photographs. Many of them are pretty. This is the fifth of what I hope will become a regular “photograph with little or no explanation or comment” feature.

Here are a few people we met at a French zoo. First a tiger.

Close-up of a tiger's face. Image credit: the auroran sunset
[Taken in France on the 30th May 2006.]

These three baboons were grooming each other in a chain.

Chain of three baboons grooming each other. Image credit: the auroran sunset
[Taken in France on the 30th May 2006.]

A giraffe through the trees.

Giraffe through the trees. Image credit: the auroran sunset
[Taken in France on the 30th May 2006.]

A hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.. "Mud, mud, glorious mud".

Hippopotamus wallowing in the mud. Image credit: the auroran sunset
[Taken in France on the 30th May 2006.]

A female lion sunbathing out on the lawn.

Female lion sunbathing on the grass. Image credit: the auroran sunset
[Taken in France on the 30th May 2006.]

I don't remember what this is, but I think he's cute. Some sort of cow with big horns.

Cow thing with big horns. Image credit: the auroran sunset
[Taken in France on the 30th May 2006.]

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