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Caged

The bears from a couple of posts ago (and one still to come) at least had the option of pacing around a bit. These unfortunate cats don't.

Giraffes

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A minute and a half of a bear pacing around his enclosure at Hirakawa Zoo in Kagoshima.



You'll never see me marching with the PETA crowd, and I believe that zoos are generally more a good than a bad thing. Sometimes, though...

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As I mentioned in the previous post, we spent a couple of days this week in Kagoshima Prefecture. While we were in Kagoshima City we visited the Hirakawa Zoo. Be prepared for an onslaught of animal pics, beginning with this post.






My little girl, having a child's sense of geography and history (besides other, very acute senses) asked me if seeing polar bears made me homesick for Canada. Not really, I told her, but it was clear to me she was on to something...