Today was Dollar Day at the Tulsa Zoo (6421 East 36th Street North, Tulsa, OK 74115)! Normal admission is $8, car park (weekends only) is $2, train ride is $1.50 one way. Total normal weekend admission & car park would have cost us a total of $18. But today we saved $15 because we only paid $1 each for the 2 of us and the car park was $1. We didn't go on the train ride.
Months before 31 July, the website said free admission on the 1st Saturday of August. At least they were getting in some money today. I am sure it is expensive to maintain a zoo. If they don't have a free or dollar day, we would still visit one day. The zoo is one of my favorite places to visit.
Entrance
Trashcan Man
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Tropical American Rain Forest
Fiji Banded Iguana
Komodo dragon
"Charity" - a penguin of the 2002 "Penguins on Parade" - a Tulsa Zoo fundraising project
You can find pictures of other "Penguins on Parade" in another blog - Irene's A Different Kind of Hunting
Lesser spot-nosed Guenon
African penguins
Giraffe, the tallest living animal? There were 3 of them in the enclosure. I guess the tallest was the father, under the shed, while the one in the sun was the mother. The shortest one was busy chewing leaves from a broken branch in a corner.
A Mammoth scene
Asian elephants.
"Maverick" who died in 1993 when he was only 7 years old.
150 cm ball black stone, spinning non-stop on a bed of pressurized water.
Exit!
Mike said "the animals are smart, they are in the cool, the people are stupid, they walk in the heat".
Yes, it was a hot day but not that terrible because there were resting and cooling stations along the tracks. Yes, most animals, that were kept in the open, were resting in the shade and so we didn't get to see them. On the whole, we enjoyed the 3-1/2 hrs there. The Zoo and living museum was great. Beautiful zoo! An interesting way to get your exercise by walking on the 78 acre land. Worth visiting for all their normal fees.
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