The Oehring Clan: Bayou WIldlife Park

The Bayou Wildlife Park is a very fun place to go! You get to feed and see the funnest animals! The best part, perhaps, is buying enough feed buckets to feed animals from your car on the drive in-emus, large deer/antelope, ostriches, and other stuff. The emus are kind of ugly up close, and somewhat violent eaters-they peck very fast and hard.

Feeding an ostrich

One of the large, deer-type animals. They have the wettest, grossest noses! So, watch out or you get slimed!

The kids each got a pony ride. Lindsey enjoyed it.

Justin was very hesitant, but enjoyed it too.

I think Ryann might have enjoyed it the most! She loved it!

There's a handful of deer that hang around that you can pet. This one got up and followed Justin around for awhile and kept trying to steal his apple.

Lindsey with antlers.

Besides driving in and walking around to see some animals, you get a tram ride to see the majority of the large animals that live at the park. Here is a father emu with his kids. Male emus care for the babies and will usually kill others' babies, but for some reason, this male adopted a group of chicks besides his own-and you could tell because half of them were a bit bigger. What a good dad! And baby emus are so cute!

Feeding animals from the tram ride.

This guy had the best head of horns ever-the tour leader warned us to keep head/arms inside the tram because this guy is was relatively young and didn't really keep good track of his horns-and sure enough they came swinging pretty close!

Feeding the bison (buffalo?). They try to steal your buckets so you have to hold on pretty tight.

Feeding a camel.

Did you know there's different kind of zebras? Some have the distinct black and white stripes, but there was also some that have a light brown stripe too. Interesting. Also interesting to me was that the zebras never domesticate. They will not come up to eat from your bucket-not even the babies that are born in the park!