Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Saturday, December 23, 2017

Santa's gifts to the animals at the Cincinnati Zoo

 
Santa outside the brand new gorilla home
 
Every year, Santa listens to the wishes of the children who come to visit him at the Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo. Then one day, just before Christmas, he visits some of the animals of the zoo to bring them some special enrichment. This year he brought his animal surprises on Friday morning, December 22.


Santa brought sweet surprises in a plastic container wrapped in a jute bag
 This year he visited Gladys, M'linzi and Samantha at the new gorilla house, the cougars and the snow leopards at Cat Canyon, and the Komodo Dragon, who often is forgotten about as he is tucked away behind the lemurs.


Carrots make a nice wreath decoration at the new gorilla enclosure
Santa brought carrot wreaths and jute bags filled with sweet surprises for the gorillas. Long after the fruit is gone, the gorillas will have fun with the gunny sacks, playing with them, wearing them for hats, and dragging them around.


The cougars are excited by the paper mache toys

The cougars got paper mache candy canes, for they love to play with paper mache. The cougars rubbed their faces all over the candy canes and got the red paint on their fur.

Rubbing and rubbing

Keeper takes a photo


The cougars got two paper mache candy canes from Santa

Mine!


The red stripes are rubbing off

Still playing

Santa watches the cougars rip apart their paper toys 
The snow leopards received paper mache stockings, and played with their new toys too.


The snow leopards got paper mache stockings

Too pretty to rip up?
Local TV stations sent cameras to cover Santa's special visit


The kids loved it

The Komodo Dragon was given a wrapped up snack
The Komodo Dragon had a hard time getting into his Christmas gift, a wrapped box with meat snacks inside.

Almost open. There were pieces of meat inside.


Santa watches the Komodo Dragon open his gift

Santa promised to return Christmas Eve with presents for all the animals.

Santa promised to return on Christmas Eve with presents for everyone, including little Kendi, the baby Black Rhino.

Anana keeps her distance from Little One

Little One dreams of a White Christmas

No, not Christmas dinner. The meercats keep warm in a bowl

Bibi and Fiona have already gotten gifts, and no doubt will get more from Santa on Christmas Eve.


Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Santa comes to the Cincinnati Zoo 2013

Sankt Nikolaus besucht die Tiere im Zoo von Cincinnati
Little One tries out his ice bombe - fish flavored of course.

It is time for Santa to bring his gifts to the animals of the Cincinnati Zoo. On the morning of December 23, he arrived with a great number of television cameramen and reporters to deliver some gifts. It was cold, but many families were present to enjoy the ceremony.

Es ist Zeit für Sankt Nikolaus um seine Geschenke zu den Tieren des Zoo von Cincinnati zu bringen. Am Morgen des 23. Dezember kam er mit einer großen Anzahl von Fernsehkameraleuteund Reporter einige Geschenke zu liefern. Es war kalt, aber viele Familien waren anwesend, um die Zeremonie zu genießen.


Santa and the Paparazzi approach
the polar bear enclosure,  Lords of the Arctic.

Local press ask Santa about his plans
for the treats for the animals.
 Here is Ann Thompson of WVXU Public Radio with Santa.

Santa gave Little One at the polar bear enclosure a red and green stacked frozen ice treat with fish and other goodies inside. Little One approached the treat carefully, then sat down with is back to the crowd and the cameras, as he usually does, and bit into it.

Weihnachten gab es für Little One an der Eisbärenanlage ein rot und grün gestapelt gefrorenen Eisgenuss mit Fisch und andere Leckereien im Inneren. Little One näherte sich dem Genuss sorgfältig, setzte sich dann wieder damit in die Menge und die Kameras, so wie er es in der Regel tut, und biß hinein.

Little One checks it out
Little One isn't sure about this, but then he tries it.
There is only one treat this year, because Berit is in the den.

Yes, Santa's gift is a bit hit with Little One.

Berit was not included in the party because she is in her den. Zoo staff say she has been sleeping a lot lately. I visited three weeks ago and heard her moaning. On that day she got lots of attention and comforting from Little One. Today, she was not to be seen, and the swimming area stone door was closed, something I have never seen before. Could there be cubs on the way?

Berit war nicht an der Patry beteiligt, weil sie in ihrer Höhle ist. Zoo Mitarbeiter sagen, dass sie geschlafen hat, recht viel in letzter Zeit. Ich besuchte sie vor drei Wochen und hörte ihr Schnaufen. An diesem Tag bekam sie viel Aufmerksamkeit und Tröstliches von Little One. Heute war sie nicht zu sehen, und der Schwimmbereich sowie die Steintür waren geschlossen, etwas, das ich nie zuvor gesehen. Könnte Junge auf dem Weg sein????

The gate is down for the other part of the enclosure,
 to give Berit privacy.

Santa also brought Christmas trees filled with goodies for the Spectacled Bear and the Black Bears, although only one Black Bear woke up enough to come out.

Weihnachten brachte auch Weihnachtsbäume mit Leckereien, die für den Brillenbär und die Schwarzbären gefüllt sind, obwohl nur ein Schwarzbär wachgenug war, um herauszukommen.

One of the Black Bears came out to enjoy the decorated tree.

The Spectacled Bear likes vegetable tree decorations.

John the African Lion, on of the Sensational Seven, enjoyed his first Christmas at the Cincinnati Zoo with a special Christmas tree decorated with meat chunks and a garland of sausages. He was very cautious at first, and had to make sure this wasn't a trick.

John der afrikanische Löwe genoss sein erstes Weihnachten im Zoo von Cincinnati mit einem speziellen Weihnachtsbaum mit Fleischbrocken und einem Kranz von Würsten dekoriert. Er war sehr zurückhaltend auf den ersten Versuch, und musste erst einmal sicherstellen, dass dies nicht ein Trick ist.

John is suspicious at first

What are all these packages? Toys, food?
 John can smell the meat decorations on the tree.

He finds the garlands of sausages put there by the zoo keepers.

Yummy. John undecorates the tree.


He works on getting the sausage garland that is up higher.


John loves his tree and all the trimmings.


What is in the bag?


Once he realized that this wonderful pile of gifts was really for him, he had a delightful time. John really enjoyed the sausages, and had to stand to get the highest sausage off, and knocked over the tree.

Sobald er merkte, dass dieser wunderbare Haufen von Geschenken wirklich für ihn war hatte er eine herrliche Zeit. John genossen die Würste, und mußte sich hoch aufrichten im Stehen, um die höchste Wurst zu bekommen, und klopfte auf den Baum.


John would rather go after more sausages.
John also had some wrapped presents and gift bags with other treats and maybe some toys. He grabbed one of the packages and ran off to his lair.

John hatte auch einige verpackte Geschenke und Geschenktüten mit anderen Leckereien und vielleicht ein paar Spielsachen. Er packte eines der Pakete und lief zu seinem Lager.



John grabs the red packages and runs off with it in his mouth.
 Back to his lair.

Santa's last stop was the Elephants. Santa carefully arranged the gifts for the three ladies.

Letzte Station war die Elefanten. Sankt Nikolaus hat die Weihnachtsgeschenke für die drei Damen sorgfältig angeordnet.

Santa has arranged for the elephants to have surprises
 inside of brightly colored cardboard boxes.

They lined up and held their trunks up, then advanced on their boxes of lovely treats.

Sie stellten sich hin und hielt ihre Stämme auf, dann näherten sie sich ihren Boxen mit schönen Leckereien.

Ready, set, go.
The three elephants quickly smashed the boxes and munched on lettuce and other goodies, all while Santa was watching.

Die drei Elefanten zertrümmerten schnell die Kisten und kauten auf Kopfsalat und anderen Leckereien, die alle währenddessen vom Weihnachtsmann beobachtete wurden.

Schotzie smashes her gift.
It is one of my favorite Christmas traditions, to enjoy watching Santa give his gifts to the animals of the Cincinnati Zoo.

Es ist eine meiner Lieblings-Weihnachts- Traditionen, zu beobachten wie an Weihnachten Sankt Nikolaus seine Geschenke an die Tiere im Cincinnati Zoo übergibt und diese es genießen.


Santa is please with the reaction from the animals. Good job, Santa.


Merry Christmas to all!

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Santa visits the polar bears

Ho Ho Ho! Santa and his Elves have prepared frozen ice buckets filled with goodies for the Cincinnati Zoo Polar Bears.

Ho Ho Ho! Santa und seine Elfen haben gefrorene Eis Eimer
 mit Leckereien für die Cincinnati Zoo Polar Bears gefüllt vorbereitet.

Here they come! Little One and Berit
 approach their holiday treats with curiosity.


Hier kommen sie! Little One und Berit
  nähern ihre Weihnachts-Leckereien mit Neugier.


It's Christmas colored Ice Bombes!
 With peanuts and fish.


Es ist Weihnachten farbigen Ice Bombes!
  Mit Erdnüssen und Fisch.



Berit licks the ice,
 but can't get to the goodies inside.


Berit leckt das Eis,
  kann aber nicht auf die Leckereien im Inneren.








Hmmm. just peanuts here.

Hmmm. Nur Erdnüssen hier.
Berit flips it over to get to the yummy fishies.

Berit klappt es über zu den leckeren fishies bekommen.
It's hard work to get at the fish. The paw helps.

Es ist harte Arbeit, um die Fische zu bekommen. Die Pfote hilft.

I detect a definite fish flavor. Maybe Mackerel?

Ich schmecke einen bestimmten Fisch Geschmack. Vielleicht Makrele?

 
After all, Fish is a traditional Christmas meal in Europe.

Schließlich ist Fisch ein traditionelles Weihnachtsessen in Europa.
 

Do I have to be ladylike? asks Berit.

Muss ich ladylike sein? fragt Berit.







Little One knows how to get to the fish.

Little One weiß, wie man den Fisch zu bekommen.

Fish popsicle.

Berit wants some of Little One's icy dessert.


Berit will einige eisigen Nachtisch.


This one is all mine, says Berit.

Dies ist ganz meins, sagt Berit.
More fish, please.


Mehr Fisch, bitte.
Are there any more fish in there?

Gibt es noch mehr Fische drin?

Just peanuts left?

Nur Erdnüssen übrig?

It still tastes like fish.
Berit enjoys the fish flavored green ice.


Es schmeckt noch nach Fisch.
Berit genießt den Fisch gewürzt grün Eis.


Little One has eaten all the fish in his frozen dessert.

Little One hat alle Fische in einem zugefrorenen Dessert gegessen.



Christmas is a time for......

Weihnachten ist eine Zeit für ......

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Little One runs off with Berit's Ice Bombe.

Little One läuft weg mit der Ice Bombe.
It's been an early Merry Christmas party at the Lords of the Arctic for Berit and Little One. Thank you, Santa.

Es war ein frühes frohe Weihnachten Partei bei den Lords der Arktis
 für Berit und Little One. Danke, Santa.