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North Carolina Zoo
Asheboro, NC

One of the Best Zoo's in the country.
"At 1,371 acres (555 ha), it is one of the largest "walk-through" natural-habitat zoo in the world, the first in the United States, and only one of two state-owned zoos in the United States.The NC Zoo has over 1100 animals from more than 250 species primarily representing Africa and North America. The zoo is open 364 days a year and receives more than 700,000 visitors annually."
(from Wikopedia- click on link at top of page for more detail)

Been going there since it started life in 1976. Now it is huge.

Sunday. May 13:
Warm, cloudy day (rained in the afternoon)
Zoo was packed; a goodly chunk of the 700,000 annual visitors were there!

The King keeping a lazy eye on things... what you don't see is a hundred or so people keeping an eye on him.

Chimps are always a good show... they play to the crowd. Look closely, you can see this was shot through glass.

Just before the rain hit. Fortunately we were on our way out by this time.