Hogle Zoo in March

This spring we were able to visit Utah's Hogle Zoo again. My friend Nalani and I are the president and vice president of the BYU Pre-veterinary Club and we worked hard this past year to fundraise enough money for better club meetings and an end of the year trip! We thought a trip to the zoo would be great for the club. 

First we had an in-depth tour of the zoo's new veterinary clinic with the exception of the very back where they had animals in quarantine from one of the on-staff veterinarians. Hogle Zoo is in the middle of a big transition and getting a bunch of new animals : ) We ate an awesome lunch provided by Cafe Rio. There was a huge salad, beans, rice, & pork/chicken/cheese enchiladas. After filling our stomachs we had a tour of the zoo by our friend Lesley who is a ECO-explorer at the zoo. She told us a little more about the animals and types of training and enrichment activities they do in order to keep animals active and healthy.  We then gathered at a little behind the scenes theatre where Lesley took out some animals for us to meet up close!

Lesley and the North American Opossum named Speckles. The white you see around her eyes is actually extra fat storage!

A kookaburra!

After our tour everyone was free to enjoy the zoo on their own. Trevor and I definitely have some favorites, but we went through and visited all the animals we could. We especially like the two wolves they have high on a hill, the tigers, the silver-backed gorilla and the elephants! Here are some of our pictures we took while exploring:

Elephant, my favorite wild animal. We stopped here to just sit and relax our feet from walking a bit!

Me and the Elephants, the little one is baby Zuri

Trevor and the rhinos

Sleepy tigers, there are 3 brother tigers and their mom, which they now keep separate.

Giraffe with a heart... can you SEE it? 

Trevor compared to a adult male gorilla!