Hi everyone!

cloudedleopard611 said:
Hi all! I'm new to this site. I started lurking and impulsively decided to join, so here we are. I'm a nature and wildlife photographer from St. Louis, so as you could probably guess, the St. Louis Zoo is one of my favorite places to be. I pretty much go any time I get the chance. It's awesome to live in a city with such a well-respected zoo. Over the years, I've also been to a small tiger sanctuary called Crown Ridge, the Omaha Zoo, the Kansas City Zoo, the Montreal Biodome, Grant's Farm, the World Bird Sanctuary, and Cedar Cove Feline Conservatory. I'll try to post some shots I've taken at some of those zoos, although a couple were from a long time ago and don't exactly hold up, or have been lost to time. As you can probably guess from my username, my favorite animal is a clouded leopard, but I have yet to have the opportunity to see one in person. The closest I've gotten is seeing a taxidermy one at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on my 8th grade class trip to Washington, DC. Anyways, I'll mostly be on here to share my photography, I hope you guys enjoy the photos as much as I enjoy taking them!
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I am also from St. Louis! I hope you enjoy your time here.
 
TinoPup said:
They've gotten rid of almost all of their animals and now only have some deer species and bison. It's odd.
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birdsandbats said:
We aren't entirely sure if that's what really going on - we need someone to visit and figure it out!
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Alright I'm sorry for being late with this, I've been busy with work and preparation for my San Diego Zoo trip, but I did take a trip to Grant's Farm on the 27th of last month and it seems their collection hasn't been so drastically reduced. In fact, they had improved upon a lot of the issues I had with them and I was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed my visit. The deer park didn't have quite as many exotic species as they have in the past, but it still had a decent number of species. I remember seeing sika deer, fallow deer, elk and American bison free roaming in the Deer Park. They also had some domestics, like highland and Texas longhorn cattle and llamas. In the deer park but separated from the rest of it were ostriches, zebras (and a zebra-donkey hybrid), and water buffalo. In the Tiergarten were emu, Aldabra tortoises, various domestic rabbits, various macaws, water buffalo, a laughing kookaburra, dromedary camels, ring-tailed lemurs, various chickens, a golden pheasant, ferrets, guinea pigs, a pond with an assortment of wild and domestic waterfowl, a dairy exhibit featuring several breeds of cattle, alpacas, llamas, Patagonian cavies and several different kinds of domestic goats. Also, there were free-roaming peacocks throughout the Tiergarten. Anyways, I figured I'd come on an give that update. I took pictures of a lot of the enclosures so I'll be updating the gallery sometime soon.
 
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