as already indicated in a previous bLog-post, there will be another post about a visit to schoenbrunn - this time with nina and my dead, who came to visit us for a few days. so we thought it's a nice idea to take him to the zoo, since he had not been to the zoo at schoenbrunn for over 30 years. so, here's roughly our tour: panda bears[001-006], fluffy cheetah cubs[007-058] (of course - you wouldn't have expected it any other way, right?)... ...sleepy, lazy tigers[059], a quite active nina and dad[060,063], seals[061-062], penguins[064-065], "franz josef's land" (aka the new polar bear enclosure[066-082])... ...the fast growing wolf cubs[083-106] were also pretty active today. it seems bringing my father along made all the animals very active and in the mood to pose for the camera. never before have we seen that many animals being active at once. since i told nina about my double lynx encounter at my last visit, she was quite eager to see some lynx[107-117] too. so we went there, and spotted one - yippieh. it even got very close to the fence to get some good pictures of him. such an adorable animal. next were some birds of prey[118-129], a really super cute porcupine[130-137], which we should have paid way more attention in the past - we will change that from now on, promised. and the wonderful and big pelicans[138-143]. last animals for us to visit were the small-clawed otter[144-155] and the coatis[156-159]. then we called it a day, since we were pretty tired, as it was pretty hot, thus even more strenuous. what a wonderful family excursion to the zoo. we really enjoyed that.