San Diego Pics

[Kent67]

La Jolla Children's Pool and harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)

San Diego Zoological Park

Babies

Passed out

Kinda want to get some of these:

 

[Kent67]

Birdies

And from the native to Madagascar garden:

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

You had a really neat day. San Diego is awesome. I have got to stop by and hang out in that town for a Southern California vacation.

 

[ChameleonNerd]

i am jealous of your sub-tropical excursion

 

[Chamifornia]

Wow I don't go by the cove often but I've never seen close to as many seals as that there!

 

[ataraxia]

awesome pics. the agamas are pretty neat but extremely fast. fast like amieva fast.

 

[ChameleonsInMyHouse]

the 5th seal pic is amazing haha
red headed agama is so beautiful
and are those komodo babies?!

 

[laurie]

Excellent pictures except cutting off the tortoise. I was a zoo member for years, I love the zoo. Even have my name on a brick.

 

[Kent67]

Thanks, everyone. Those are Komodo dragon babies. I was actually at the zoo that day with Chris A. and he said he thought he'd heard these two were the result of a parthenogenesis event. I looked briefly with my friend Google but couldn't find confirmation of that anywhere. Great animals, regardless!

 

[Chris Anderson]

It turns out the Komodo parthenogenesis in the US that I had heard about was at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas. They had two males hatch in 2008, which were confirmed to be parthenogenetic making it the third confirmed incidence along with the London Zoo and Chester Zoo in England.

The two at the San Diego Zoo were hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Chris

 

[jannb]

Nice pictures Kent! We stayed in Coronado the last time we went to San Diego but but did not see all the seals. I think we'll stay in La Jolla the next time we go out west.

 

[Vegas Chad]

No feeding the giant torts this time???

 

[Motherlode Chameleon]

It turns out the Komodo parthenogenesis in the US that I had heard about was at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas. They had two males hatch in 2008, which were confirmed to be parthenogenetic making it the third confirmed incidence along with the London Zoo and Chester Zoo in England.

The two at the San Diego Zoo were hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo.

Chris

Wow that's awesome!