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Animal photos and video from the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida

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While visiting Florida, I had the opportunity to visit the Lowry Park Zoo. They've got a bunch of interesting animals there. I took some high-speed video too with my excellent Casio EX-F1 camera.

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First up is the big aviary they have there (you may notice that I enjoy birds). Toucans have huge beaks, generally, and this one is no exception.

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Here's a big creepy hornbill with a big horn on its bill.

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And here's a closeup of the hornbill's tailfeathers.

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The blue-throated macaws were especially puffy that day.

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This is a blue bird the name of which I do not know.

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Here's it taking off in slow motion silhouetted, though.

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The scarlet ibises were in full form.

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Here's another nameless blue bird. It was pretty blue though so I included it.

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There was an orangutan with a huge face hiding under a grocery bag. Cute!

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The lorikeets were the stars of the zoo - so cute and playful:

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Two of the lorikeets were wrestling each other. The video is in hi-def, so make sure to watch full screen! Check about 1 minute in, they start dancing around each other.

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Here's a vaguely bluejay-looking bird that is probably not related to the bluejay at all. It was in the lorikeet aviary.

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Wood ducks are native to the Florida area, but this photo really stands out!

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This kangaroo had another kangaroo sticking out of it.

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There was also a budgerigar exhibit where the budgies would fly around you. Here's one taking off of a perch.

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Here's a video from the point of view of one of the feeding sticks they sold us.

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The penguins were great. They made excellent photo subjects and they would chase our shadows too...

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It was the cutest thing, and we wanted to do it for a very long time. So we did! They even jumped into the water and chased our shadows on the bottom of their pool.

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Florida has so many lizards that it's cruel not to take a photo or two of them.

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Mystery animal skin fold!

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This is a yellow-masked lapwing, with weird jowly skin bits. Also notice the weird yellow thing sticking out of its wing. Is that a claw?

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This meerkat smiled at me!

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And as always the meerkats were digging. A lot.

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There was also a giraffe feeding station. Giraffe tongues are gross! He would let you pet his nose for a second then would snootily lift his head. It was great.

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Here's an excellent bald eagle shot.

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And we got to pet the sting rays!

That's all for now. Thanks for looking!