Travel Photography: Inside the Wild Life in Manila Zoo

February 03, 2014  •  Leave a Comment

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A peacock displaying his plumage.
The male (peacock) Indian Peafowl has iridescent blue-green or green colored plumage. The peacock tail ("train") is not the tail quill feathers but the highly elongated upper tail covert feathers. The "eyes" are best seen when the peacock fans its tail. Both species have a crest atop the head. The female (peahen) Indian Peafowl has a mixture of dull green, brown, and grey in her plumage. Although she lacks the long upper tail coverts of the male, she has a crest. The female also displays her plumage to ward off female competition or signal danger to her young.

 

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Colorful Rent-A-Boat

 

ARJ-PHILIPPINES 10580ARJ-PHILIPPINES 10580 Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.

 

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Colorful Walls

 

"Wild-eye Crocodile"
 "Wild-eye of Crocodile"

 

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Guinea Pig

 

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