There’s something about visiting the zoo. You can’t help but wonder who’s being more closely scrutinized, the animals or the humans.
Let’s begin our tour at the pelican beauty parlor. Nothing like preening with a whole crowd watching. Not that this pelican cares…
If you’re a giant iguana, you can pretty well forget about having privacy with your lunch…
A human audience sure doesn’t stop this pair from, ahem, doing what they’re doing…
The positioning of this feeding basket is of great concern to any creature that isn’t a giraffe. But, hey, the short one is in a perfect position to get whatever falls to the ground…
Of all the animals I saw, the primates seemed to be most interested in watching the zoo’s human visitors…
On the other side of the “interest in human visitors” spectrum, we have the carp in the pool near the zoo entrance. They couldn’t care less about the human photographers catching their swimming moves…
Okay, I’ll admit it: The Phoenix Zoo offers some of the best people-watching opportunities in the state of Arizona. Take, for example, the humans crowding into the orangutan pavilion. The creatures are in hiding, but we flock to see them anyway…
And a shout out to my Phoenix Zoo guides: The wonderful brother-sister team of Judy Vorfeld and David Crook (below)…
