Tupelo Buffalo Park

WARNING: LONG & PICTURE HEAVY

Tuesday, July 6, Terry & I took Natalee to the Tupelo Buffalo Park & Zoo. It's about 2 hours away & we have never been, so we thought it would be fun for just the 3 of us to make a day out of going to Tupelo, since we were both off. It wasn't as big as I thought it was going to be but it was fun, nonetheless. We took an open air trolley ride around the park & saw many different animals.


Riding the Trolley


They had a white buffalo which is very rare & worth 1.2 million dollars!



They had a camel named Joe.



They had some zebras. They had a new baby born the night before and several born within the week or two prior, however, we didn't get to see them.



We got to feed the buffalo.




The next couple of pics is of the water buffalo. You may need to look closely to see them, but they are there!




This is the biggest buffalo they have. He was HUGE!



One of the baby donkeys they had.



Below is Oliver the famous monkey. He has escaped 3 different times from the zoo, by picking the locks. They now have it fixed to where he can't get out. You can google him & find different articles on his escapes.



Natalee (we) got to feed some of the animals. They had goats, kangaroos, llamas, giraffes, hogs, emus, antelopes & many other animals.





This is a picture of Patches & Tall Boy. They were gorgeous! Honestly, I think they were the prettiest giraffes I have ever seen!



This next picture is of a Zedonk. It is a mix of a donkey & zebra (like you couldn't tell that from the name). It looks like a donkey with black & white striped leggings on.



They also had an area set aside to celebrate the Indians. Every May, a certain tribe comes and they have a Pow Wow Celebration. I forgot what they actually celebrate, so sorry for not explaining too well. This area has a HUGE Indian statue, a teepee, a hut, an inground firepit & some grills.




Besides the animals mentioned above, they also had different monkeys, a black bear, a lion, porcupines (huge by the way), wolves which were gorgeous, snakes, alligator, giant tortoise and I'm sure I'm forgetting several things. They also had a play/picnic area for the kids & an area that had the horse swings made out of tires along with play houses.