{"id":2425,"date":"2016-06-01T18:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/31.217.196.210\/~umelrmrh\/blog\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:09:49","slug":"another-zoo-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/archives\/2425","title":{"rendered":"Another Zoo visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright, this is my second visit to \u00c4ht\u00e4ri Zoo this year, and ideally we’d like to make one more towards the end of the year, before actual snows. But we’ll see. We were in a group of four and like city people (which we’re not, me maybe most), we all forgot to take mosquito repellent with us. I don’t know what’s wrong with us, we should all know how horrible the mosquitoes get in this country. And let me tell you, those little demons were infernal. We were all full of bites by the end and our trip included a lot of curse words. Such a perfect meal we were.<\/p>\n

Another unfortunate coincidence was that 5 bus loads of school kids happened to arrive at the same time. Sigh. Luckily they moved quite swiftly, although they were many in number. So, they weren’t horribly distracting, not including the swarm of little people scaring the otters into hiding and a group of very obnoxious boys making intentional racket (stomping their feet and chanting something loudly) and then being snotty about it when they were told to stop. I’m fine with kids that don’t realize that they’re doing something wrong as long as they stop when someone points that out, but do NOT be snotty about it when you’re being scolded. The people were bothered and so were the animals, poor things. <\/p>\n

I took a gazillion photos again, and ran out of space on my memory card -again. Unfortunately I had my camera on the wrong setting through the whole trip, so it didn’t focus as well as it could have. Oh well, next time I’ll be vigilant. This time it was also super hot, so we missed some animals, but I also saw two of the animals I’ve never seen at \u00c4ht\u00e4ri before (being active anyway) because we entered right when the gates opened.<\/p>\n

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And here we go, starting with the wolverines. I’ve never seen them here before, although I’ve always wanted. They got food and were very active and playful. I got a ton of photos with them licking their lips, too (unfortunately none of them properly in focus). So cute, and damn, their fur looked so shiny and nice. ♥<\/p>\n

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\nThere were treats on the swing, but it was challenging to get to it. :’D<\/p>\n

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\nPlaying in the water was fun.<\/p>\n

The snow leopard was sleeping again. Her face was visible but she didn’t seem to have any intention of moving, so we passed her.<\/p>\n

The second animal I’ve never seen active was the otter:
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\nThis time they were out and about and came to pose on the rocks (well to look at us, more like).<\/p>\n


\nAnd then there was floating in the water. This so killed me. They were both being equally adorable, but some chick had her fingers on the glass<\/a> so my photos with the two of them were ruined.<\/p>\n


\nOh, she was so pretty~<\/p>\n

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\nThen a swarm of kids came screaming and stomping and they both immediately moved to the stream, mostly our of sight. But we stayed because they still seemed kind of curious.<\/p>\n


\nAnd true enough, they came back out in the open once most of the kids moved along. The male (on top) amused me because he seemed really clingy. All “I’ll suavely move to protect you, but in reality I just want to hug~”. Lol, I mentioned to mizya<\/a> that he was like the otter version of her character Shin Wa, who is always looking for excuses to cling onto his girlfriend.<\/p>\n


\nThere were also piglets, but the light was horrible and it was too hot to stay for long.<\/p>\n


\nAnd owlets. Omg, one of them was constantly begging for food but the parents didn’t seem to care. :’D<\/p>\n


\nFluffy!<\/p>\n


\nMommy\/daddy was like “not now”. They were hawk owls.<\/p>\n


\nThe great grey owl was giving me all kinds of nice portrait poses.<\/p>\n

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And then…
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\nThere was this “I will murder you in your sleep” -look ^^;;<\/p>\n


\nThis poor snowy owl is always in the same corner of the cage. ^^;<\/p>\n


\nUral owl portrait.<\/p>\n


\nTawny owl portrait.<\/p>\n


\nAnd like… the perfect light on this snowy owl portrait. Zero editing needed.<\/p>\n


\nThis too ♥<\/p>\n


\nThe lynxes were mostly active but for some reason I just can’t get nice photos of them during summer.<\/p>\n


\nWell, they weren’t that active, so that might explain it :’D There were pieces of food around but they were mostly uninterested.<\/p>\n


\nThe last one was lying down at the back of the exhibit.<\/p>\n

The crows were playing and being somewhat active, but the cage is still horrible for taking photos.
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They were being all photogenic, and then….<\/p>\n


\nThey decided it was time for a derpy couple pose. ^^;;<\/p>\n


\nThe terns were nesting at the little pond\/lake next to the rest stop\/cafe. One of their eggs had fallen out of the nest. :<\n\n
\nDon’t remember what kind of a goose this was…<\/p>\n


\nWe debated whether this was an adder or a ringed snake, but none of us were sure and there was no sign. Based on this photo and the clear pattern on the back, I’d say adder, but I didn’t get any photos of the head from above to confirm (nor did I see the full snake). Last time we were here, they had a ringed snake, though, so I’m still uncertain. Yes, Finland has two snakes and we can’t even distinguish the two. :D;; Adder is poisonous but the ringed snake isn’t.<\/p>\n

What I’d actually like to see is a slow worm, since I’ve never seen one in nature either. I suspect they’re extremely cute. :’D<\/p>\n


\nThe elk had her babbus with her, but they were really far away. Probably due to the swarms of children that had passed them earlier.<\/p>\n


\nThe polecats were sleeping outside.<\/p>\n

The only member of the weasel family that was up was the stoat (again).
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He was just as elusive as last time. I failed the focus on all the outdoor photos but at least some of these indoor ones were okay. He’s faster than my gerbils were and tiny and the enclosure is pretty big.<\/p>\n


\nHis friend was sleeping in the mitten, lol the tip of the tail ♥ *__*<\/p>\n

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Wolves were very active.
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\n…not.<\/p>\n


\nThis was pretty much the most action there was.<\/p>\n


\nAnd this.<\/p>\n


\n“Come on, what are you doing? It’s hot so lie back down.”<\/p>\n

They’d been scraping themselves against the fences to get rid of their winter fur and all the edges were full of fur balls. Poor things. xD<\/p>\n

Aand the last item on the menu this time: brown bears.
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\nThis is Mimmi. The proud mom of surprise triplets. She’s way past her prime and her partner, M\u00f6rri, is near senile, so nobody expected these cubs.<\/p>\n


\nYes, hello, I have a piece of leaf stuck to my nose.<\/p>\n


\nAnd I like to bully my siblings.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of them was big on solo climbing too.<\/p>\n


\nThen Mimmi realized that new people came to look and…<\/p>\n


\n…Basked in the attention. :D<\/p>\n


\nThis is Mimmi and M\u00f6rri’s older son. <\/p>\n


\nAnd this is the big man himself.<\/p>\n


\nThe bachelor wouldn’t leave his dad alone and constantly began this sort of a sumo match. <\/p>\n

But whenever I started to take photos, they stopped and…
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\nYeah, thanks for the teddy bear shots, guys.<\/p>\n

Once we moved on, only three animals remained. The foxes were hiding (I’d be more surprised to see them). I caught a glimpse of a pair of ears and that was it.<\/p>\n

But the red pandas were active again (well one of them):
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\nLots of tongue shots today, but this is the only one that was properly in focus.<\/p>\n

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And that’s it. The last animal was the takin and they were lounging about again, like many other animals. It was so hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, this is my second visit to \u00c4ht\u00e4ri Zoo this year, and ideally we’d like to make one more towards the end of the year, before actual snows. But we’ll see. We were in a group of four and like city people (which we’re not, me maybe most), we all forgot to take mosquito repellent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-doll-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimensiondolls.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}