We checked out of the hotel and picked up Laura to drive to BASF offices in Southfield, MI. From there I continued to the Detroit Zoo (1928) in Royal Oak.
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| Bird House (1930) |
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| Wildlife Fine Art Gallery Bullet Elephant (1995) by Mary Engel |
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| Cossypha niveicapilla/Snowy-headed Robin Chat |
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| Lontra canadensis/North American River Otters |
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| Holden Reptile Conservation Center with Flying Pterodactyls by Marshall Fredericks |
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| This python is making his own bridge |
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Gyps rueppellii/Rüppell’s
Griffon Vulture
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| Camelus bactrianus/Bactrian Camel family |
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| Equus ferus przewalskii/Przewalski's Horses with lots of flowers |
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| Ailurus fulgens/Red Panda hiding in a tree |
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| Panthera tigris/Tiger napping |
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| Macaca fuscata/Snow Monkey |
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| Split log fencing |
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| No one is going to climb on these fences |
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| Volunteers build a fence |
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| Pavo sp/Peahen & chick |
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| The giraffe enclosure |
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| Cynomys ludovicianus/Black-tailed Prairie Dog exhibit |
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| Cervus elaphus/North American Elk with Christmas ornament? |
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| Arctic Ring of Life Inuit inukshuk/cairn |
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| Concrete snow in the Arctic Ring of Life |
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| Carousel (2011) |
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| Part of the Horace Rackham Memorial Fountain (1939) by sculptor Corrado Parducci |
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| Horace Rackham Memorial Fountain named for the first president of the Zoological Commission |
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| Stations of the Cross Garden |
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| Crucifixion Tower in Art Deco style |
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| Church (and tower designed by architect Henry J McGill) |
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| The church is made with granite and limestone interspersed with stone blocks from the American states and territories |
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