Nashville--day 5

The weather was finally perfect, so we went to the zoo.

There's a great playground in the middle of the zoo.

You enter the playground through the snake's mouth.

Playing football in a field at the zoo.

This elephant was doing some weird stuff.  He was blowing in his own ears with his trunk, doing some strange ballet steps, and he topped it all off with a loud trumpet!

elephant skull

There were two adult giraffes and two babies (only one baby in this picture).  The male was trying to make more babies the whole time we were there, but the wife kept walking away. 

Inside the meerkat habitat

Lots of bamboo growing in the zoo

This meerkat was shaking and making a squeaky noise like he was laughing.

zoo parking lot on the way out