Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo

Well, I've been out in Nebraska for the past week.  Just finished up the job here and I had to take a DOT-mandated day off to reset my clock before the drive home.  Other times I've had to do this, I'd go for a bike ride, or check out a park or something.  However, the hotel I'm at is in big box store hell, so there's not a lot to see nearby, and I didn't have a bike with me.  So, I wound up taking a little trip to the Omaha zoo.  I have to say it was probably the best zoo I've been to!  Some cool critters I've never heard off and some I have that I've been wanting to see.  I'll let the pictures do the talking...

 Some sort of bluebird.

 Cool jungle exhibit.

 Monkeying around.

Malayan Tapir

 More cool indoor jungle.

 Nile Softshell taking a snooze.

 Pygmy Hippo.

 Panamanian golden frog.

 Largest indoor jungle in the U.S.  The trunks are cement, but the rest is real.

 One of the coolest things I saw; arapaima.  They are gigantic!  So cool...

 Solid muscle.

 Some sort of tropical butterfly.

 Some butterflies trying to get out.

 Sphinx moth of some sort.

 Really pretty moth.

 Butterfly hatchery.

 Atlas moth.  Big.

 Giant katydid.  Huge!

 The Desert Dome.  Also home to the nocturnal exhibit and the swamp exhibit.

 Amphibians beware!  You know about this Teal?

 They also had a decent aquarium with one of those underwater tunnels.

 Funny looking catfish

 A big, herbivorous relative of the piranha.

 Welwistchia, a plant from the Namib desert.  They can live as long as 2,000 years!

  Bastard quill tree.

 Spectacled caiman.

 Acacia bloom, I think.

 Bobcat.

 "Let me out, meow!"

 Broad-billed hummingbird, sitting still.

 Colorado River Toad.

Cantil Viper.  Cool markings.

African Giant Bullfrog.

Aardvark.

Fly River Turtle, from Australia.