WARNING: PHOTO HEAVY
But it's cute animals, SO YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO READ IT.
On Saturday, we flew up to Edinburgh in the morning, checked into our hotel, and after a brief rest, went straight next door to the zoo!! We had a panda viewing for 14:30 so that gave us plenty of time to have a wander around the zoo and check out the other animals! There were birds near the front of the entrance and then bigger animals further up the hill. The whole zoo is set up a massive hill, and you can either get the safari trailer up to the top and work down (which we did) or walk (for the crazy people). It's a pretty steep hill!!
We saw a lot of the front exhibits first, which was as I said, mainly birds!
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| Flamingo!! |
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| Dat wing span! Pelicans were huge! |
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| SEA EAGLES |
Those Sea Eagles were HUGE AND BRILLIANT, and I took loads of photos of them, because it was just one at first, and the other one flew over and they are so gorgeous *babbles on about them for ages*. I love birds of prey, I just think they are beautiful!!
They had small mammals there, like otters, baboons and koalas. Some of the animals were keeping out of the cold so I couldn't get a photo of them, but here is a troupe of baboons, an otter and the back of a koala for you!
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| They were annoying the lions next to them! |
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| Dinner time! |
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| So cute, even when asleep! |
Further up the hill, there was a big section with lots of big cats and predators!! I did take a lot of photos at the zoo but I only picked out a few to save your sanity, and mine, haha! So here is a few of the gorgeous big cats we saw. It must of been feeding time soon, as the black jaguar was pacing and so was one of the leopards!
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| Leopards are tiny compared to the rest of them! |
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| Having a good clean before dinner (leopard) |
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| Mister Jaguar pacing for his food |
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| This Asiatic Lion was watching the baboons in the next enclosure, you could hear him roaring every now and then! |
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| Gorgeous tiger who was sitting down, but got up as we all watched and walked off! |
Soon it was time to see the Giant Pandas!! Edinburgh Zoo is the only place in the UK to have Giant Pandas and you have to book a slot to go into their specially sealed off enclosure to see them! They don't like too many people disturbing them, so that's why you have to book! But it's well worth it, they are so cuuuuuuuute!!
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| Tian Tian (Sweetie), the female. Small for a female, she was adorable! |
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| Yang Guang (sunshine), the big male panda, finding eating a lot is hard work! |
They were both napping, but that's what pandas do with most of their time, nap and eat bamboo! It's because bamboo doesn't give them a lot of energy to do much else! Pandas, being bears, are omnivores, but they do prefer a diet of bamboo, though the zoo has tried them with fish! They were so cute, and Tian Tian is coming into heat soon, so fingers crossed for panda babies in the future!
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| Pandas are love! |
By now, me and my mum were tired and decided to see a few more animals and then head back to the hotel for a rest! Well, I dragged my mum to see a few more animals and then promised we could go back afterwards haha!
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| Tapirs! Bigger than you think! |
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| Single horned Rhinos! |
I love rhinos, there is something about them that your brain doesn't quite comprehend, with their armoured coats and horns. They look like a throw back from ancient times! I think they are marvellous and cute though!
As I said earlier, I took way more photos than this, but I had to only pick a few so we wouldn't be here all day! I took over 100 photos in Edinburgh, most of them at the zoo haha! I hope you enjoyed reading about my Edinburgh weekend, and I hope it made you want to go!
STAY BEAUTIFUL and thank you for reading!!
ox~Kitty~xo
