Alan's trip to the National Zoo

The Connecticut Ave entrance to the National Zoo.	A coy cheetah that never fully faced the camera	Scimitar Oryx
Maned wolf	Western Gray Kangaroo. We did not see one of these in Australia. The Kangaroo Island Grays are a different subspecies.	The pandas were out playing
The pandas were out playing	The pandas were out playing	relaxing after a tussle
destroying trees	more fighting/playing	Still playing
A hippo emitting an ultrasonic call. How Do I know, looks that the water vibrating. It was very interesting	A giraffe eating	A blonde capybara, I don't know if it is a natural or a dye job
a tawny frog-mouth. We saw these in Australia, but it was too dark to take a photo. Note the extreme red-eye, they have great night vision.	a photogenic duck	A sloth-bear
Here is a red panda sleeping. It ignored my attempts to wake it up.	A cusimanse - a small mongoose	a common alligator, but photogenic none the less.
Naja haje, an Egyptian cobra - a relative of all the venomous snakes in Australia.	An inland bearded dragon - another Australian animal	Dendrobates azureus - a blue dart poison frog from Surinam.
Apalone ferox - a really big soft shelled turtle	An interesting story	and a gray form
and a black form