Stone Zoo

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Last week, B & I drove the short distance from Salem to Stoneham to visit Stone Zoo. It was a great way to spend a couple of hours on a warm summer afternoon!

The zoo is rustic, small, and easy to navigate. It's also full of great exhibits, which are conveniently arranged in five distinct areas. Yukon Creek, which recreates an abandoned research site in a Canadian forest, contains reindeer, a bald eagle, black bear, and a gray fox. Treasures of the Sierra Madre boasts a selection of animals found in that mountain range, including bats, coyote, coati, cougar, jaguar, and roadrunner. Inside Windows to the Wild, you'll see African crested porcupine, flamingo, tamarin, hornbill, hyacinth macaw, inca tern, meerkat, and two-toed sloth. There's also a Barnyard, which holds goat, pygmy zebu, guinea hog, and rabbits. In the Himalayan Highlands there are animals native to the Himalayas, including black-necked crane, markhor, yak, and, my personal favorite, the snow leopard. This summer, Stone Zoo is also featuring a free-flight, interactive bird show. Admittance to Masters of Flight: Birds of Prey is included in general admission to the zoo.

You can learn more about Stone Zoo here, but keep reading to see some of my favorite photos from my day at the zoo.

Adorable black bear being silly. Look at that foot on the wall!

To be honest, monkeys generally creep me out (they just look like little, furry people), but these guys were doing some cool stuff!

Otters are always so much fun to watch.


These Barnyard animals are seriously adorable, aren't they?


B loved this yak, and I have to admit he's pretty cute. But our favorite exhibit, hands down, was the snow leopard. How beautiful & majestic is this animal?




Disclosure: I was granted free admission to Stone Zoo for the purposes of writing this post. All opinions are my own.