BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail

DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail:

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1. SINZEL_200805_001.JPG: Elephant Shift The big transfer area below lets keepers safely move elephants from one habitat to another. They can keep the gates closed to separate groups of elephants, or leave them open to allow free movement through the habitats.
2. SINZEL_200805_025.JPG: Bath Time Behavior Getting clean is important for elephants, but so is getting dirty. After they bathe, elephants often use their trunks to throw sand, mud, and debris on their backs. This "dirty" habit creates a natural sunscreen layer and protects their skin from insects.
3. SINZEL_200805_028.JPG: Elephant Barn The building in front of you is our state-of-the-art elephant care facility. Its skylight opens for fresh air and it features both cushioned and sand floors. Keepers and vets work here bathing elephants, weighing them and giving them first-rate medical are.
4. SINZEL_200805_036.JPG: There was no one waiting to get in when I showed up so I went right in.
5. SINZEL_200805_093.JPG: There was a line waiting outside the building by the time I got out.
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Wikipedia Description: Elephant House - Home to the zoo's Asian Elephant family, as well as a single Nile hippopotamus, pygmy hippopotamus, and capybara. The zoo's pygmy hippos are descended from a famous pygmy hippo named Billy, who was a pet of president Calvin Coolidge. Rhinoceros and Giraffe were once kept in this building, but the zoo moved them to another zoo to make room for its baby male Asian elephant, Kandula. On June 22, 2006, the zoo announced plans for a new $60 million state-of-the-art Asian elephant exhibit, called "Elephant Trails."
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Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [(Smithsonian) National Zoo (Everything)] [(Smithsonian) National Zoo (Non-Events)] [Zoos] [Issue COVID-19]
2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. Trump's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here. As the chant goes -- Hey, hey, POTUS-A; how many folks did you kill today? The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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