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Kenneth Ray
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| Posted: Tue Sep 4th, 2012 23:37 |
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You would like the Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Truly a unique 'zoo'. It only deals with plants and animals found in the Arizona/Sonara Desert. The enclosures are all designed for fencless photography although they have had to put plexiglass in front of prearie dog enclosur to stop people feeding them. They have one large enclosure with Javelina and Coyote that for all practical purposes have no fence. It has a cable barrier to keep you on the trail and several feet behind that it has a fence kile chicken wire except it is hand made from stainless steel the size of piano wire. You have to look VERY hard to even see it. They have a very large walkin aviary of all kinds of birds. They also have a walkin aviary of only Hummingbirds. Many varieties and many nesting. You can get some fantastic opportunities at almost any part of the 'museum'. I have been a member over 30 years, one of my favorite places. The Reid Park Zoo in Tucson is also one of the best small zoo's I have ever seen and I've been to San Diego,Columbus,St.Louis,Portland and many other large zoos for comparison. The Tucson zoo does not compete with the ASDM as it has only animals NOT found in the A/S Desert. The Nasville,Tn zoo also gets a thumbs up as one of the most Photographer and best displayed small zoos I've seen. You might gather ,I like zoo's.
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