{"id":83,"date":"2017-04-22T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T11:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewovens.photography\/?p=83"},"modified":"2024-02-18T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T01:30:53","slug":"a-close-encounter-22-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/2017\/04\/22\/a-close-encounter-22-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"A close encounter (22 April 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our trip to Melbourne Zoo, we arranged a &#8220;close encounter&#8221; with the Sumatran tigers. This involved us in helping to set up the enrichment activities (placing meat and scent in various parts of the enclosure) for the male tiger before he was let in.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/34199448036\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.06.57-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2805\/34199448036_f4a951d613_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.06.57-2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This first photo is taken from within the enclosure looking out at the crowd gathered for the &#8220;Tiger Talk&#8221;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33431708453\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.12.17-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2869\/33431708453_8c87b9a100_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.12.17-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here he is checking out the scent trail left by us as we walked through.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33431710533\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.14.50-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2873\/33431710533_2ed80e3a78_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.14.50-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then he spotted us! (We were safely behind a metal gate.)<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33431712133\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.14.54-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2815\/33431712133_e14cfd2131_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.14.54-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But we weren&#8217;t his lunch, there was some to the left of us.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33431723383\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.19.39-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2936\/33431723383_8e691d3788_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.19.39-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33431728353\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.21.29-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2921\/33431728353_c5ea20fbb8_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.21.29-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And some a little further away, but in direct line-of-sight.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/34111877501\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.21.36-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2949\/34111877501_99ce9f3fc9_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.21.36-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33401078874\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.24.35-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2825\/33401078874_801532891e_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.24.35-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33401080064\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.24.36-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3945\/33401080064_9bd8f4b114_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.24.36-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure I like the way he&#8217;s looking at us. Thankfully we&#8217;re in an airlock so there is a fence between him and us.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sovens73\/34126882691\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.10.51-4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2846\/34126882691_e789e857c1_o.jpg\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.10.51-4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33401084544\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.24.42-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2928\/33401084544_903dafa57d_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.24.42-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/movens74\/33401090594\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.37.33-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2938\/33401090594_7de1a83d01_o.jpg\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.37.33-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An awesome experience and best of all, our entry ticket for this behind-the-scenes encounter goes directly towards the conservation efforts for tigers!!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/sovens73\/70t2AK\" title=\"2017-04-22 14.39.18\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4183\/34256073096_e4e28c2ba9_o.jpg\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4000\" alt=\"2017-04-22 14.39.18\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our trip to Melbourne Zoo, we arranged a &#8220;close encounter&#8221; with the Sumatran tigers. This involved us in helping to set up the enrichment activities (placing meat and scent in various parts of the enclosure) for the male tiger before he was let in. This first photo is taken from within the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/2017\/04\/22\/a-close-encounter-22-april-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A close encounter (22 April 2017)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86,129,141],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melbourne-zoo","tag-melbourne","tag-tiger","tag-zoo"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourstatsguru.com\/ovensphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}