National Zoological Gardens     

To celebrate Human Rights Day a group of us took the Gautrain ("How train") to Pretoria to visit the National Zoological Gardens.  We saw not only African animals but several other exotic ones.

The very clean and modern Gautrain.

The first area we came to, made you think you were in Florida!

One of the elephants enjoying his meal of twigs.

It is amazing how much they eat in a day!

This young giraffe was busy eating from a tree.  They are one of my favorites.

Here is a warthog taking a little rest after a hard day.

One of the most unusual but beautiful animals.

And here is Mr. Okapi.  He looks like  part giraffe, part zebra and part something else.

Here are two different kinds of lions. The white ones are so unusual but morecommon here.

Another very unusual animal.

Here he is just enjoying the tall grass.

A short clip of a rare black rhino.