San Diego Zoo

I snapped a few pics at the San Diego Zoo the other day. It was a fine day to take advantage of the zoo pass and check out the newly opened Elephant Odyssey exhibits.

There was an archeologist's tar pit exhibit where eerie music played in the background. The dark water, mimicking natural tar, levels would fall and reveal a collection of ancient bones lying underneath.

A couple of Columbian mammoth statues and other ancient animal statues were fun for kids' interaction.

This almost looks like an enclosure setup for Jurassic Park, except the creature models in this exhibit only go back 12,000 years ago. And, of course, the live animals in this enclosure will probably include giraffes or more elephants.

This Teratorn statue looks quite sinister with a bit of HDR photography added. This old "thunderbird" was very, very big!