Da Boys & Da Bears

On that walk through the NC Zoo yesterday, I saw, for the first time, the two new male giraffes on the Forest Edge habitat. They looked graceful and at ease as they walked together away from the artificial rocks near their night quarters and up through the treed, 3 1/2 acre exhibit.

Earlier I found the two new black bears enjoying a small portion of their sizable, "North Woods" habitat. They were active, but not best watched from the visitor overlook. I got better looks at them from the visitor walkway (between that overlook and the stairs up to the "Great Plains" [bison and elk]), as well as from that stairway.