When it's unbearably hot, the best thing to do is go into the forest and cool off by the stream. 💦🥰🌲🌳 And it's even better if you can watch fallow deer (Dama dama) playing.😊

My little brother and me 😊

African Penguin
(Spheniscus demersus)
2004 @dallaszoo 🏙️

The only penguin species of Africa. 🌍

It's expected to be extinct in the wild in a few years.⚰️

I wish we could just put a band-aid on everything... 🩹

Check @sanccob 🌠

Sculpture by Josue Dupon above the entrance to the Antwerp Zoo.🐫

Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus percnopterus) at breakfast.🦅 ⠀ ⠀
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"How about some salt and pepper for your delicious cadaver?" - "No thanks, sir! It tastes best on its own!" 😋

The Apocalyptic Peacock 🦚💙

If I look at that, I want to be a penguin. But I'm a sloth. 😁⠀ ⠀
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Are the zoos or even public swimming pools open for you?
Most of our zoos in Germany are open since the beginning of May.
Now I have read that the swimming pools are reopening too.

🌊🌊🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧💕🌞 All ready for an early swim?😁 I forgot my swimming trunks.😳
Hmm.. maybe it wouldn't have been necessary...😏 Do penguins bathe naked, or in a dress coat?🤔💭⠀ ⠀
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Incidentally, these are Humboldt penguins. The same species that I saw in the wild in Peru (Islas Ballestas).💙

Yesterday I went to the zoo with my girlfriend. Doesn't she look adorable? 🐧💕🐜 ⠀ ⠀
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Corona is such a 💩!
Can't meet my real girlfriend...
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The zoo visit was very nice. Only a few people... sunshine... I could make a lot of photos and videos... 😁🌞

So what is that? Weird animal! This is not a human being! 😲
I smell flowers! 🌻💕
Weird animal and flowers... I have to go there! ❤
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Kalusho is the only black rhino at Frankfurt Zoo.
His female companion Tsororo died of a complication of the uterus in 2016.
Together they had three daughters. All of their daughters were released into the wild in Africa.
The eldest daughter Akura became a grandmother four years ago in the Marakele National Park.


Kalusho, now 33 years old and originally from Zimbabwe,
should actually be released together with Tsororo 8 years ago.
However, it failed.


For most of the 20th century the continental black rhino was the most numerous of all rhino species.
Around 1900 there were probably several hundred thousand living in Africa.
In the early 1990s the number dipped below 2,500, and in 2004 it was reported that only 2,410 black rhinos remained.
By 2019 the population of 5,500 was either steady or slowly increasing.



🎼Music: "African meditation dance" by Stefan Kartenberg (2017 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)