On our last day in Sedona, we visited a wildlife park called Out of Africa. It consists of exotic animals that normally make their home outside the U.S.
The park is broken down into a hands-on area wher they showcase lizards and snakes, as well as some smaller animals. The snake below is an Anaconda, and unlike the movie, it's top speed is about 3-mph, so you don't need to run too fast if you ever encounter one in the wild.
I can't recall what type of Lizard this was, I think it may be a type of iguana.
They have a safari park, where you tour in an open bus through the park, with various animals coming up along side the bus. The girafe here was one of two at the park, and he prefers carrots over any other type of food.
There was also a family of zebras at the park.
The more wild animals are kept on the upper part of the park. These consist of lions, tigers, pumas, leopards, white tigers, as well as a host of other exotic animals. We stayed for the feeding time, and that is why in some of the pics below, the animals were so welcome to have their photos taken.
Before feeding time, the park puts on a show called Tiger Splash. The show features four trainers and two tigers. The trainers entice the tigers to run around the arena chasing toys made out of rubber pool toys filled with balloons. As part of the enticement, they trainers will have the tigers chase after the toys and then dive into the pool, with the tiger following straight behind them.
A little gentle playing before the fun begins.
During the show, some of these tigers were leaping 5 - 6 feet in the air after the toys.
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