Mono Monday at the Zoo
Good Morning another week begins and may it be a good one for you
Well I say the week begins but being retired that becomes less of a factor the days all are kind of the same, the only thing that makes a week day sort of relevant is if we have a Doctors appointment which of course doesnt happen on weekends.
I do tend to wonder off when I write posts so I apologise I just type where my mind takes me, sometimes I stop and think why did I waffle on about this or that and delete it, or at others I just thing its not so bad and leave it, but lets get tot he post
As i tend to do on Mondays I am sharing a few images in MOno, this week from a viist to the Buttonwood Park Zoo
Starting with a shot of the two horses there, I am no expert on hoorses but to me they look fairly old
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A little bit about the zoo
The Buttonwood Park Zoo, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a zoo located in the center of Buttonwood Park. Opened in 1894, it is the third-oldest zoo in New England and the 12th-oldest zoo in the United States. Located on a 7 acres (2.8 ha) campus, the zoo is owned and operated by the City of New Bedford, with the support of the Buttonwood Park Zoological Society. It is located on part of the Buttonwood Park Historic District, and federally designated on the National Register of Historic Places.
The zoo is home to more 250 different animals made up of more than 80 different species of animals, including many that are rare and endangered
a bald Eagle
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one of the two elephants, they are also fairly old but seem to be doing well
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the Bear
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and one of the beavers
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and this I do believe is a red panda
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