Friday, July 7th, I took the Doescher and Milette kids on a little day trip. We had so much fun together. Here are a few pictures I managed to take of kids and animals.
The car was fully loaded. For the drive through, we just unbuckled and loaded up the seats. Well, Lennon decided having the third row to himself was just fine.
There were many young animals. I don't know how many Addax calves we counted.
The fallow dear (dama dama, as Katharine prefers to call them by their scientific name) became a favorite of Katharine.
At the half way point of the drive through, we had a nice picnic lunch and I managed to take a group picture of all seven.
mother giraffe and calf
Nice picture of an adult Wildebeest. They too, had four or five calves.
a female Fallow Deer
Scimitar -horned- Oryx. Fossil Rim participated in a reintroduction project for these animals by supplying animals in 2006.
two Fallow deer fawns
Gwen and Lukas
The giraffe encounter was awesome.
A Hartman 's Mountain zebra. Fossil Rim is the only facility in the US that has this kind of zebra.
Keira's favorite animals had cubs, too. Here is a mother cheetah with three cubs hanging out in the shade. Fossil Rim has a cheetah breeding program that has produced 125 cubs since 1986.
Two European Red Deer.
Two female Blackbucks. The Blackbucks are near threatened in their native India and Pakistan. Due to the popularity of hunting ranches there, there are now more Blackbuck in Texas than in their native India and Pakistan.
The view is always. gorgeous. There were many more animals off the paved roads that we were only able to see from the distance. Katharine has a video of our Ostrich encounter which she will have to share with us. Fossil Rim also has an intensive management area that is the home of the more sensitive species such as Coati, Grevy's zebra, Maned Wolf, Mexican Gray Wolf, Red Wolf, and others.