 Travelogue
Cincinnati, Ohio
Animal Life in and around Cincinnati
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In the "Wild"
  At
Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky they have a heard of Buffalo. The American
buffalo, or bison, is the largest of all North American land mammals. Great
buffalo herds once roamed the area around the park and provided food, clothing
and shelter for the Indians and pioneers. Hunted to near extinction, the last
wild buffalo was seen in Kentucky around 1800. The park's herd is an effort to
reestablish these animals at Big Bone Lick.
  Mt
Airy Forest in Cincinnati has close to 1500 acres and is home to these deer who
were seen at sunset walking freely on the grounds of this park. The main times
of activity are at dawn and dusk for deer because they are crepuscular. If
regularly disturbed they can become nocturnal, staying in close cover during
daylight.
 Here
are a family of ducks relaxing on the Canal at Metamora,
Indiana. They were too cute! They loved to be fed and swim after the food.
  At
Young's Jersey Dairy we got a chance to see lots of farm
animals. Left: were goats in the petting zoo. Right: were the Jersey cows after
whom this dairy was named.
 Left:
the baby nursery of the dairy, with baby
goats in the front stall. Right: baby pigs.
  Left:
another view of the main barn of the dairy and the petty zoo. Right: the
children's playground with farm tractors for them to climb up on.
For the "Art" of it
At Young's Jersey Dairy they have a contest for artists to paint
cows. On left: is one of these cows climbing a tree on the farm grounds.
 In
Hyde Park in Cincinnati we found two wonderful Pigs which were part of the
Charitable Program of Painted Pigs similar to the Painted Cow program in New
York and Chicago. Left is an ideal pig waiter standing in front of a restaurant
to welcome in the guests with a touch of the bubbly. Right is Goldie Hocks which
was just of the Square in Hyde Park. The inscription for Go ldie
is on the Right: It was so much fun to come across these wonderful animated
creatures. You can really understand why Cincinnati was and could still be known
as Porkopolis
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