Cats at the National Zoo
Before I started volunteering at the zoo, Robin and I visited the zoo regularly for years, early on weekend mornings while the creatures were still awake and active (Tip: Go to the zoo before 10 am. After that most animals are napping and there are hordes of people, many of them wielding strollers with screaming children). Though I'm very fond of the variety of critters in the Amazonia exhibit where I volunteer, I always try to take a walk through at least part of the rest of the zoo during my break to see what's happening with other creatures. The closest exhibits are the big cats (lions and tigers). I figure that if you can see a lion and a tiger every weekend, life has not become dull. And I've learned to try to bring our camera every week, as sometimes there's something cool. I'm a sucker for cats, large or small. It seems the zoo is as well, as the zoo has cheetahs, fishing cats, clouded leopards, sand cats, lions, two kinds of tigers, bobcat...