I didn't even see this before.
Anyway, might as well post about some of my photographic antics here.

The griffon vultures had chicks recently. It's amazing how baby birds look so much like freaky aliens! It's also pretty amazing how quickly they grow up.

vulture by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

And here are the proud parents. Don't they look happy? :3

vulture by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

No, they don't. Griffon vultures are incapable of looking happy. They can only look extremely grumpy at all times.

But emus always look a little like they are smiling when you shoot them from the side

emu by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

They are very photogenic and beautiful birds if you ask me.

Peacocks look incredible as well:

peacock by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

At the end of January this zoo got a new male red panda, Jang:

Red Panda by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

He is incredibly adorable! And I guess he also figured out what the zoo wants from him very quickly:

Red Pandas by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

Just after two weeks he completely fell in love with their other panda, Pushpa. He won't leave her side anymore:

Wake up, I want to cuddle! by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

But naturally, my favorites are their lemurs. They freely roam the "open enclosure" and run around among the visitors when the weather is nice.
This little bugger, a two years old female, always sits on my lap:

lemur by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

Some times when the weather is particularly nice she will even sunbathe on my lap!

This is Andora, a roughly 19 years old female black and white ruffed lemur:

Black and white Ruffed Lemur by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

When I arrive there in the morning she often comes running to me to greet me or she climbs on my lap when I sit down because she wants to be pet.

And this is Athene:

Black and white Ruffed Lemur by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

She is roughly 20 years old and pretty shy compared to Andora. She will let you pet her as well but she needs to warm up to you first.

And this is the female who leads the group of ring-tailed lemurs:

lemur by Mathias Appel, auf Flickr

I call her Big Momma, and she is a total badass. She rules over them with an iron (and fuzzy) fist. She is a gigantic fatass, abuses her role to get all the food she wants and she is pretty lazy as well. If she doesn't want to go out the whole group stays inside, no matter how nice the weather is (which can be annoying).

I just love going to that zoo. Out of all the zoos I have visited so far they have the biggest amount of animals I'm actually interested in and their enclosures are very photogenic.