Thursday, April 14, 2011

Tupelo Buffalo Park




Tupelo acquired a rare White Buffalo from the Dakota Indians...local children named it Tukota, for TUpelo and daKOTA.  Here is a picture of him, laying under a tree.  He is 8 years old and will live 25-35 years in captivity and they keep him away from the herd because he is considered sacred to the indian nations.  We got to feed buffalo, zebra and a camel. The camera friendly buffalo is named Elvis and behind him you can see a water buffalo that is underwater in a pond...they can stay underwater for 7-9 minutes.  We also saw giraffe, a mountain lion, black bear, a lemur, kangaroo, emu's, etc.... it was a really fun day !

Tomorrow I bring you Elvis !!  xxoo TML