The picture’s shaky but I swear it was Nafisa holding the little mouse by its tail. My wife who is afraid of roaches playing with a saved-from-drowning mouse.
The poor thing got a new lease on life.
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So, there we were, Nafisa and I. At home, just back from office. I was a bit tired. When Nafisa got a call from Karthik saying he had caught a “King” Cobra. So I did go and take some pictures of the “King” or should I say Prince?
I have heard from others that our area (NGEF Layout, OMBR Layout) has a lot of snakes and cobras too. However, this is the first time I have seen or my friends have seen before. Read more at Karthik’s – http://planetphoenix.com/2009/06/08/another-day-at-the-indiblogger-office/.
A couple of weeks back Nafisa and I found ourselves at Renie’s house in Chennnai a.ka. IndiBlogger headquarters. The reason for the sudden visit was to visit my Dad who was supposed to undergo an eye operation. Finally, that didn’t happen and it got postponed to June 2nd week.
So what did that leave both of us to do? We had the Sunday off to do anything we wanted. Renie had already planned that we could visit the Vandalur Zoo which has been designed like a National Park near Chennai. And on a Sunday afternoon we put that into action.
We entered the zoo and started tripping on the animals right from the primates area. Below is a photo of a monkey, one of very first sights, probably a langur or a lion tailed macaque.
He/she was a quite bugger and quite far off to take good pictures.
The next was a big attraction near the entrance. The chimps were on an uproar and there was some kind of territory confrontation happening between two different groups of two chimps each. So there was so much shouting and stress in the chimp camp that there was a huge crowd just to witness this.
Next were the birds which Renie normally doesn’t visit. But I like to trip on the birds too, so we went looking at the birds. Some of the interesting ones below:
A white peafowl / peacock.
A Cassowary.
And then some mean looking Indian Bisons – also called Gaur.
Above, a mother and calf.
And then, the Royal Bengal Tiger. He was really far off to get a decent shot.
And then, the MAIN REASON why Renie wanted to go to Vandalur zoo, the White Tiger. Wow, this guy was a very good specimen with a majestic look. He walked around and put on a show for us, almost daring us to come inside. Damn good stuff.
We spent quite a long time with the White Tiger before leaving for home. On the way, we said hi to the Asian Elephants.
And, as usual, the best photos were taken with Renie’s Nikon. A sample given below:
Visit Renie’s Vandalur Zoo pictures at flickr for some amazing photos. And my pictures from flickr as a slideshow below:
This post is a follow up of my earlier article on Top 10 hybrid animals which has been the highest traffic bringer to my blog.
What the hell is a Zorse? That is probably what comes to your mind when you hear the word. Apparently, a Zorse is a cross between a Zebra and a Horse, more specifically between a Zebra stallion and a Horse mare. Even the other way around pairing is possible and is called Horbra.
Sounds funny? Yeah, but this is definitely true. And these Zebroids are damn strong and almost untameable. They can be very aggressive and wild. However, they do have the shoulder featuristics of the horse so that they can be handled with a bridle quite easily. Neat!
How about a video of a Zorse?
And Zorses are like mules. They are born sterile and hence not a separate species line.
Flickr has a huge number of pictures of Zorses, especially of Eclyse the Zorse.
But, the best place to read more about Zorses is to head over to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorse.
This is one good looking squirrel.
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