I went to the Denver Zoo yesterday afternoon to take a few photographs, and I am afraid it was slim pickings. The weather was sunny and mild, but virtually none of the animals would look into my camera lens for a portrait. The exception was one of the tigers, who was pacing his or her cage the entire time I was there. It finally went up onto the ledge lining the cage and on one of its trips back and forth looked down at me as it passed, as seen in the photograph on the left. I even think it was smiling at me. Talk about a positive attitude. Thanks guy!
Contrast that tiger's attitude with the lions in the Predatory Ridge compound. All but one were turned around and sleeping with their backsides to zoo visitors. The one exception was asleep, but suddenly raised its head. I took a photograph hoping to capture it looking me right in the eye, but I'll be damned if it didn't even open its eyes, and immediately went back to sleep. On average, lions sleep 15-20 hours a day, and I definitely can believe it. I still say the zoo should hire interns to go into the lion compound and poke each of them with a big stick, which I am sure would liven things up.
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