Adelaide Zoo is the only home to pandas in the Southern Hemisphere. The current agreement with China expires in November this year so we took the opportunity to see Fu Ni and Wang Wang.

The pandas must be close

Here is Wang Wang the male using his four furry appandages. The exhibit is very large and spacious with plenty of viewing opportunities as well.  And as Wang Wang says, “Living in Australia for a few years expandad my world-view”

“I never got the hang of these bamboo flutes – they totally bamboozle me.”

“No wonder it doesn’t work – there’s no reed.”

“Kerr…unch! Ha! this one’s expandable.”

“With my claws, it’s pawsible to shred bamboo.”

“I’m so cute I will panda to the cameras.”

So many great photo opportunities it was hard to know where to pan da camera.

And its sleeping time – time to paws and reflect on the morning.

Red panda

Siamang – a gibbon from South East Asia

They were very athletic and noisy. “Will I make that branch? – I’m gibbon it my best shot”

Just hangin’ – “I never fall. Take that as a gibbon”

Capybara – a rodent of unusual size.

“What do you say to Simba when he is moving too slowly? Mufasa!”

Stick nest rat in the Nocturnal House

Darth Koala: “Luke, join me and I will complete your training. “

Adelaide by night: The Rundle lantern followed by the oldest beautician in David Jones

Adelaide’s Rundle Mall with the famous sculpture, “Malls Balls”