Pictures of Zoo Animals

On this page you will find pictures of zoo animals of different kinds, and sometimes a little facts about the animals.

If you want to see more pictures or learn more about the animal, please see and click the links shown on the bottom of this page, where you can go to pages with pictures of a lot of different animals as well as pages loaded with facts about them.

Here it will mostly be pictures of smaller animals or animals that are often overlooked. Even pictures of a dairy cow.

The more "famous" animals like the lion, the bear and tigers has their own page with lots of pictures. They are here also, but please find more by looking at the overview on this page.

All the pictures are a lot bigger than you see them here, so please, if you like a picture,  click on it and see it in the bigger version.

To save the picture to your computer, click the "download" button or right-click the picture in the new tab.

Below you see the Guanako lama, the Tasmanian devil, camels, sea lions, a nandu and other zoo animals.

The Guanako lama lives in South America on grass steppe and bush steppe. The latin name is Lama Guanicoe. The Guanako's  life expectancy is 20-25 years, it's feed is grass, twigs and herbs. 

 

Guanaco, Lama Guanicoe	Mara, Patagonian Cavy
Nandu, Rhea Americane	Rhea Americane
Nandu in Zoo	Rhea Americane
Baby Guanako	Guanako lama
Beautiful head of Guanako lama	Guanako Lama resting

You can detect the mood of the lama by watching its ears. Turned forward shows that the lama is curious and attentive. Wriggling its ears means the lama is disturbed, and if it turns the ears back you better watch out, because it is a threat. The lama might even emphasize the threat by sending vomit into the face of the opponent. (This you will know already if you have read Tintin albums).

The Nandu and the Mara also lives in South America on grass steppe, feed is grass, roots and herbs for both animals, the Nandu also eats insects.

Lama	Close up of lama teeth
Lama head	White lama

Pictures of Wolves

 

Wolf photo	Picture of wolf
Two wolves in Zoo	Wolf picture
Picture of wolf

Muskox:

 

                

 

You will find the Muskox (Ovibus mochatus wardi) on Greenland, in Canada and Alaska.
It weighs 150-300 kg, it's life expectancy is 10-20 years, and the Muskox feed on herbs, grass and bark.

The Muskox can keep warm because of the extremely thick fur with the long guard hairs and the thick wooly undercoat.

Southern crowned pidgeon

Goura scheepmakeri	Lives in Indonesia, New Guinea, in the rainforest

Pictures of the Camel in Zoo:

Camleus bactrianus
Camel
Trampeltier

The two-humped camel is adapted to the life in the Asian deserts with extremely hot summers and very cold winters.

The humps contain fat, and serve as fuel reserves for the camel.

The eye-lashes of the camel are long and protect the eyes from the sand, also the nostrils can close to protect for the sand.
As you can see below on the close up of the feet, they are also adapted to the sandy ground of the deserts. By having these wide feet the camel avoid sinking into the sand.

Camels in discussion	Three camels
Head of camel	Camel in Copenhagen Zoo
Zookeeper taking camel for a walk	Close up of camel feet and knees
Camel in zoo in front of house	Two camels laying down
Camel chewing green leaf	Camel eating green leaf
Funny photo of camel

Abyssinian Ground-hornbill (Hornraben) north Africa:

Tasmanian devil pictures:

Tasmanisher Teufel (Sarcophilus harrisii)

The Tasmanian devil is the largest existing marsupial predator.

The Tasmanian devil has strong, powerful jaws and sharp teeth, and it digests almost everything, even the skull of kangaroos and sheep.

During the mating period the male animals gets lots of wounds and lacerations from the serious fights among the males, fighting for the females.

Tasmanian devil in zoo	Male Tasmanian devil
Zoo animals Tasmanian devil	Tasmanisher Teufel
Zoo picture of Tasmanian devil	Angry Tasmanian devil
Cute looking Tasmanian devil	Snarling Tasmanian devil

Sea lions:

Sea lions sun bathing	Sea lion in zoo
Training of sea lion	Sea lion training in Zoo
Sea lion after training	Sea lion with zookeeper

Prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus)

 

 have a rich language consisting of calls, sniffing, nursing and postures. Their territory is marked by a shrill sound, and as an alarm note they have a short bark.

When two prairie dogs from the same coterie meets they will lick one another as a greeting.

They are found on the open prairie in North America.

Cute prairie dog	Prairie dog
Two prairie dogs	Cynomys ludovicianus
Greeting prairie dogs	Prairie dog and its hole

Anteater:

Anteater looking for ants	Anteater in zoo

A Few Lions and Polar bears :

Female lion and cubs	Male and female lion
Beautiful lioness	Lion family
Polar bears in zoo	Polar bears resting
	Side view polar bear

For further information and photos follow these links to pages about the animals:

Lion pictures, Lion Facts, Polar Bear Pictures, Polar Bear Facts, Polar Bear Clip art.

Stork:

 

Picture of Stork in zoo drinking	Stork standing
Stork with the red legs	Stork photo

Pictures of a Cow in Zoo:

All domesticated cows originate from the aurochs which lived in Northern Europe, North Africa and Asia.

It is believed that abaout 8.000 years ago the aurochs was domesticated 

I know that showing a picture of cowshit is not the most normal thing to do, but on the other hand: where else do you find a picture like that when you need it?

Dairy cow in zoo	Cow resting
Cowshit	Udder from cow without milk
Mottled cow and calves	Cow needs to be milked
Cow and her calf	Red Cow and Piebald Cow in Zoo
Jersey cow in zoo	Black Mottled cow

The Okapi:

Okapia johnstoni.

You can only find the Okapi in  the Central African rainforest, where it feed on leaves, ferns, fruit and mushrooms.

The Okapi is related to the giraffe, and is also called the giraffe of the forest. But it is smaller than the giraffe, and therefore more adapted to living in a rain forest with dense vegetation.

Every Okapi has it's own pattern on the behind, it is as different from animal to animal as fingerprints are for humans. These patterns serve as a great camouflage in the forest.

Only the males have horn, but the female is bigger than the male.

Picture of male and female Okapi	Okapi picture
Zoo animals Okapi	Okapi picture
Head of Okapi	Okapi walking
Okapi taking leaves with tongue	Female Okapi

 

Elephants:

Elephant with new baby	Elephant mother and baby
Elephant baby	Pictures of elephants in zoo

Male elephant, female elephant and baby elephant

           

Sable Antelope (Hippotragus Niger)

 

The habitat of the Sable Antelope is the savannah in South East Africa.

It feeds on medium high grass and leaves, weighs approx. 200 kg and it's life expectancy is 17-20 years.

Sable Antelope in Zoo

 

Baboons:

 

Baboon family in zoo:

       

Mother baboon eating bark	Mother and child baboon
Baboons with red bottoms	Silver male baboon

Pet Goats in Zoo:

 

Pet goats one drinking milk	Bearded pet goat
Close up of pet goat	Many pet goats in Zoo

Small-clawed Otter:

Aonyx cinerea, Zwergotter

Take a look at this beautiful photo, where the very fast small animals are making a "pose" where they look so much like the decorative tree trunk behind them.

You can read more about the small-clawed otter here at Wikipedia.

                  

Small-clawed Otter	Zoo animals small-clawed Otters
Zwergotters	Cute small-clawed Otters
Otter with fish	Otters with fish

As you can see, this page is with pictures of many different zoo animals, kind of a helter-skelter-page, where I can put all the different pictures I have taken on my zoo-walks, but pictures that doesn't really fit on a page of it's own.

Golden Lion Tamarin	Goldgelbes Löwentamarin
Two golden lion Tamarins

Common Hippo

Hippopotamus amphibus, in German called Nilpferd

There is already a page on this site about Hippos and with a lot of great pictures, but here are some more, taken in Copenhagen Zoo.

I think I got some really good pictures, but I was a bit annoyed because just after I placed the camera in my pocket, the pig male hippo almost jumped up out of the water. It would have been such a spectacular picture, but alas.

Baby Hippo sleeping in Zoo	Two big hippos in water
Hippo and Guinea fowl	Big Hippo baby sleeping on rock
Hippos in water	Hippo lurking in water