The ZOO, the ZOO, I'm going to the ZOO, ZOO, ZOO

I could add more to the ZOO photo display (possibly the names!)  but basically it is finished.My TLC tutor has seen it. Now what do I do with it?
Hamilton Zoo contains a lot of interesting animals. I took the photos over a year. My camera is only a small one (Panasonic Lumix  DMC-TZ1) and in the time I focus on an animal and press the button the subject has had lots of time to move and does. So I was pleasantly surprised to find I had as many good photos as I did. More than enough to make this display.
I will keep on going to the zoo. I renewed my pass for this year. When we were there a few weeks ago the keeper told us that one of the big female white rhinos was just about ready to give birth. She certainly was acting up, running around chasing the other rhinos away from her.  There was a newspaper notice the next week that the new baby was born so I hope to have a new subject for my camera next visit, baby rhino.

I used four covers from old books for this project. Glued together and covered with material and paper.

Here is part of the cover on the right and photo covered interior and exterior "pages".

The animals and birds are displayed in groups. On the left are chimpanzees, lemurs , spider monkeys etc. On the right are exotic birds including my favourite -- masked love birds.

Native New Zealand birds are grouped together. Some of them live together in the large aviary. Others are in breeding cages. Some like the kea are in a separate cage to protect both the visiting humans and the other birds. Kea are very inquisitive big parrots and have long sharp beaks.

I added small extra 'books' to the display. This one features African hunting dogs.

The small book has pages with different pictures of the dogs. Then the book can be opened out and a larger picture of one of the dogs is in the inside (see below).