Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure Zoo and Museum - Salina, Kansas
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Creatures at the zoo, but not official "zoo" animals

August 17, 2013

This is what the fish do when people throw food from the bridge.
[Many orange, yellow, and red fish each about a foot long are stacked atop each other in the water near the underside of the bridge.]

Turtle (Looks like it's doing the breast stroke.)
[Turtle with all legs outstreched as it swims in the water.]

Woodhouse's Toad in the prairie dog enclosure
[Large toad with leopard spotted skin with its eyes barely open.]

One of many squash growing on the grounds in one area of the zoo.
[Almost pumpkin-like (size and shape) yellow squash amid green vines.]

Mute Swans
[Two white swans with orange beaks and black around their eyes and the bump on their beak.]

Hobomok Skipper Butterfly
[Tiny yellow butterfly with large black eyes standing on the bright yellow flower petal.]

This is a male Small White Butterfly.
[The butterfy is perched on a grouping of closed flower buds. The butterfly is all white except for the top edge of its upper wings and the tips of its antennas which are a dark grey. There is one dark grey spot on its wing.]

Pegala Woodnymph Butterfly
[The butterfy is perched on small purple buds with its wings together over its body. The wings resemble wrinkled brown paper someone tried to flatten (all the crinkles still show). At the top edge of the wing is a white rectangular patch with a dark brown circle in it. The dark brown circle has a small white dot in it.]

Red Admiral Butterfly
[Brown butterfly with red, blue, and white on its wings stands atop a teeny lilac flowers.]

Question Mark Butterfly (Its distinctive white marks on the wing prompted its name.)
[Butterfly on a grouping of small purple flowers. It wings are variagated shades of brown except for a white dot with a white comma beside it.]

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Images from the museum

Moose
[The taxidermied head and huge rack of a moose comes out from behind a bush.]

Mountain zebra
[The taxidermied head and upper torso of a black and white striped animal. The stripes do extend into the short mane on this animal.]

Mountain lion fetching dinner.
[Mountain lion is attacking a pronghorn and just about to take it down in this taxidermied display.]

Eskimos lie in wait to capture the walrus.
[A taxidermied walrus sits at the water's edge while the 'eskimos' are further back behind some rocks.]

Antelope
[Two taxidermied adults and a young antelope stand under a 'tree'.]

"Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle, 1854
[The quote is below a varied group of taxidermied animals which include an ostrich, a hippopotamus, two different types of antelopes, and an ibis-like bird.]

This hibiscus was just outside the museum.
[A close view of a large flower with petals which are pink near the center and pink and yellow on the outer edges. One large stamen comes out the center and is pink except for the yellow ball at its end.]

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