Guiyang - Qianlingshan Park - 黔灵山
In my wife’s hometown of Guiyang, there is a park with Pandas and wild monkeys. According to the sign, this panda was born in captivity in 2010. The zoo website says each panda eats 150 kg of bamboo per day.
Panda eating bamboo in Qianlingshan park
Pink and yellow flowers reflecting in a pool
The signs throughout the park showed the horrible injuries people have gotten from being attacked by the wild monkeys in the park. Most people seem aware that you should keep your distance from the monkeys. And while there is a ‘no feeding’ rule, not everyone obeys this. Some people gave the monkeys packaged food which the monkeys were able to open and discard the packaging. One little girl cried when a monkey tried to take her food. The monkeys can be aggressive. But look how cute they can be!
Baby monkey
wild monkey running
wild monkey perched on a rock
wild monkey looking wisely toward a group of humans looking on
wild monkey hiding behind a tree
wild monkey unwrapping a piece of candy
a young monkey looking toward two zoo guests
The pandas were a popular attraction. The pandas area opens at 10:00 and we happen to get there 10 minutes before, so we found a big line of excited people. We were let in. It was neat to see how the distribution of people around the viewing platform changed as the panda moved around. Eventually I found myself in a good spot to take photos and video of the panda eating bamboo.
the star of the show, the panda.
Panda eating bamboo, view partly occluded by a tree
At the point I found the best location for a photo
Panda munching on bamboo
would it be miserable to eat bamboo all day?
The aquatic bird area had pelicans, black swans, and assorted ducks and geese. It was feeding time when we got there so the swans were getting lettuce while the pelicans were picking at raw meat. I didn’t know they would eat that, but it makes sense, they normally eat fish.
Pink Pelicans
Pink Pelican
Pink Pelican
Pink Pelican flapping
Black swans
Pink Pelicans and Black Swans
The monkeys in the cages must have unique longing - seeing the wild monkeys of a similar nature to their own - but free.
Baboon
This monkey was called a caca monkey.
Monkey being photographed
Monkey posing
The crowd gathered around the peacock as it displayed its feathers all fanned out. The eye detection auto focus locked onto these eyes sometimes.
Macaw
Peacock in the tree
Iridescent tail feathers
Tiger pacing around its enclosure
Lions chilling
Sleeping lizard
Planking iguana
Snake
Tortoise
Monkey unwrapping a rice ball
Monkey discarding the wrapping and storing the food in its cheek
Monkey running along a stone curb toward the viewer
Monkey climbing stars
Monkey checking that the coast is clear
Monkey bellowing
Monkey devouring a mango
Monkey looking a bottle to check if it had any yogurt left inside.
Disappointed at lack of yogurt, the monkey discards the bottle
young monkey climbs on a thin tree
I tried my hand at video recording the monkey. The small monkey gave me a chance to use object tracking in video mode. The EF 70-300 F/4-5.6L lens has very smooth zoom ring giving me the ability to smoothly keep the monkey in frame as it moves away.
A stray dog hiding in the woods
Wild monkey, dependent on human food to survive.
