Our little guy most enjoyed the animals that were active and close. So some of his otherwise favorite animals weren't as exciting to him. Turns out elephants that are far away and monkeys that just sit there aren't as exciting as ravens, foxes, and okapi that are super close and giving him a show.
The Arctic is just polar bears, foxes, and owls, but the owl exhibit was temporarily closed :( Our guy would have loved the owls! (Their website shows other owls too, I'm really bummed I didn't realize that and find one for him.) He enjoyed the foxes, one walked right up to the front to look at everyone. They also have the African Ravens in this section, I guess cause it's the front section. They are the official mascots of the Baltimore Ravens: brothers named Rise & Conquer. They were going after a carcass of some kind (mouse?) and sticks and our boy really loved it! He kept making excited noises so I decided to record him, but once he saw the camera he stopped. Oh well, you can hear him at the very beginning.
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He enjoyed the animals in the African section too. Particularly the okapi. We saw it indoors and it kept going back and forth rubbing it's horns against the window we were looking through. Our boy loved it and I tried to get a picture but I should have been recording a video. That didn't occur to me until much later, of course. I don't do videos very often so it doesn't occur to me when it should.
One of our first stops in the African section was the zebras, ostriches, and rhino. After he was done looking at them I put him back in his stroller and decided to take a quick picture before moving on. And he decided to throw his toy car through the fence. I'd looked away so I don't know if it was on purpose or an accident, but I'm glad it didn't go further or I wouldn't have been able to get it back. I had to lay down on my pregnant belly to get a stick, and then again to use the stick to get the car back. I refused to let him have it again which quite upset him until I pulled out a snack. I'd tried to get him to give it up earlier, I guess I should have tried harder.
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