S. M. Garver - Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens

Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens - Jacksonville, Florida
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The animals on this page are various mammals of the world. (Yes, bats are mammals.)

These Southern White rhinos sit in the shade doing their best to ignore the black vultures who are native to North Florida. Behind the rhinos is a Marabou stork which is native to Southern Africa.
[Two rhinos are lieing on the grass in the shade of multiple trees. Part of a third rhino is visible behind the two in front. At least a dozen black vultures stand on the ground around the rhinos. A stork stands behind the rhino but its height makes most of its body visible. It has black feathers on its body and had a grey neck and head.]

This is an okapi. It is related to giraffes, even though it looks like part zebra.
[This creature has a brown body and head while its legs and hind end are black and white stripes.]

The little nubs on the top of the okapi's head are similar to the nubs a giraffe has.
[This image is a side-view of the head and upper neck of an okapi. It has mostly brown skin except for a large portion of its face. It does have a dark nose. Its ears stick up. The nubs appear to be sawed off horns, but they are not.]

This is a reticulated giraffe, one of the nine sub-species of giraffes. (The giraffe is waiting to be fed.)
[The giraffe stands beside the elevated covered platform which forms part of the visitor walkway. There are rocks at the edge of the platform to keep it from getting too close, but its head can still reach the top rail of the platform.]

A giraffe prepares to accept the greenery being offered to it.
[The head of the giraffe is just over the rail of the viewing platform. The giraffe's right eye is visible as it sticks out part of its tongue and curls its upper lip in preparation to eat the greenery.]

Duke, big daddy giraffe, resting in the shade on a hot day.
[A large giraffe has its front legs folded so its belly is against the ground. The back legs appear to be folded to its side. Its neck parallels a palm tree trunk although the neck is thinner. There are several other tree trunks nearby and the giraffe is in the shade of these trees.]

A youngster on the move.
[A young giraffe is galloping from left to right. It's head is bent down as it moves and its tail is straight out behind it.]

These two youngsters nearly appear to be mirror images as they face opposite directions.
[Two young giraffes stand in the shade with their hind ends apparently touching. Their front ends away from each other and their heads face opposite directions--one directly faces the camera while the other face completely to the back end of the exhibit.]

These two older gals rest in the sun.
[Two giraffes nearly equal in height sit in the sun beside each other and beside some rocks. They both face to the left.]

This youngster is two months old.
[One small giraffe sits in the grass and has its head down as it appears to be checking out something behind the camera.]

On the left is Bento, a yellow-backed duiker, who had been in this exhibit for less than two weeks and appears curious about his neighbors. On the right is a different duiker with its entire yellow portion visible.

Eastern bongo (a forest-dwelling antelope)
[This deer-like creature has two very long, slightly curved horns on its head. It has thin white stripes on its orange-brown (bright chestnut) fur. It has its legs bent under it as it rests on the ground near a wood-log fence.]

Greater kudu (second largest antelope in the world)
[Three deer-like creatures lie near each other on the ground in the shade of trees. Only the one nearest the camera has horns and they are long and twisted upward and to its back. The kudus have thin white stripes on its light brown fur. ]

Bontebok (South African antelope)
[One bontebok facing to the left stands on the grass with its head bent to the ground. Its legs from the knee to the ground are white. Its belly and a section of its face are white. The rest is dark brown. It has two antlers which are ringed most of their length. It has a short tail which is white near the base and black at the end. ]

Grevy's zebra is the largest type of zebra and is distinct in it that its stripes extend down to its hooves and to the tips of its mane.
[One zebra facing to the left stands beside wood plank fencing. This zebra's black and white stripes are relatively thin. It has a white belly, but the rest of its body, except for its tail, is striped.]

I love the white tips on the ears of this zebra colt.

The red kangaroo's tail is really thick!
[A front view of the entire kangaroo as it has all four limbs on the ground and it faces the camera. It has very long ears. It's long tail looks thicker than its front upper limbs.]

Tammar wallaby
[A front side view of the wallaby as it stands on its hind feet. Its front is bent forward, but those limbs are in the air.]

Warthog
[The warthog stands by a bamboo fence covered with wire. This creature has long tusks coming out of the end of its snout. It has two sets of 'warts' on its shout that appear to be knobby horns.]

On May 11, 2017, mama warthog gave birth to two males and two females. The youngsters are just past four months old in this image.
[The mother warthog stands while all four youngsters nurse. On the right is a female on her knees with her belly resting on the ground. One of her brothers is behind her and noticeably larger than her. The mother's head blocks the view of the two nursing on her other side. The mother's head is fully visible and her whitish horns stick out from the sides of her elongated snout.]

I believe this is one of the female younsters.
[The young warthog is walking from right to left. It has a long mane which extends from the top of its head to the middle (half the length) of its body. The mane is a darker brown than its fur. It has a long skinny tail.]

An 8-month-old Visayan warty pig and one of its parents
[The parent is on the left and is black and grey. The bottom part of its legs are black and there is a black stripe of fur on its head and continues along the top of its back. The youngster on the right is a brownish-red color with much shorter haired fur. it is about one-third of the size of the adult.]

The youngster, now 16 months old and starting to get the adult white ring coloring on its snout, is napping with one of its parents.
[The parent is on the right with its head behind a plant as it snoozes with its belly toward the camera. The younster lays with its butt against the parent's butt. The youngster is not quite half the size of the adult. Its head is visible and black up to the white ring around its snout. The rest of the snout and body are grey.]

The "tusks" on this male Sulawesi babirusa pig are actually teeth which grow through the skin.
[Both pigs have smooth grey skin. The one without tusks is lying against a rock wall on the right. The pig with the tusks lies against the other one. There are three tusks growing from the nose end of the left-most pig.]

Anteaters can swim.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left the anteater has just stepped into the water and its legs are submerged as it comes toward the camera with its snout off to the right. On the right is the anteater swimming with its head and snout out of the water and most of its back visible. The water is greenish brown so none of the animal is visible below the water.]

A close view of the head of an anteater
[The aarvark faces left with only its eye, ear and part of its snout and upper back visible. There is very short stubbly fur visible on the surface of its elongated head.]

Fruit bats
[At least a half dozen bats hang from the grating on the roof. The bats have orange-brown fur and have a body length of about one foot long.]

Coyote
[The coyote was sitting on its haunches facing a fence before it turned its head around and looked in the general direction of the camera. This coyote has light brown and grey fur mixed together.]

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