This park near San Diego is huge! Couple of its fields are so large visitors are not allowed to walk there and can only enter them via safari cars or a special tram. These spaces are big enough for herds of antelopes, gazelles, giraffes and other animals to freely roam inside.

Meet skink who lives in Australian part of the park.

Cognition of the word "skink" and associating it with the real animal became one of the best moments during my visit. Before park skinks existed only inside the books of Gerald Durrell for me. I've never seen any of them and never imagined them. Of course I understood that these animals do exist and are in fact lizards and that they must be unique for some reason. But before San Diego every time I thought about skinks I was imagining generic lizards. In the park I learned that skinks resemble snakes, especially when they cling their legs. Skinks also have bright ultraviolet-colored tongue and show them to the predators to scare them away.

This is frogmouth. It looks like an owl, but it is not what it seems. Frogmouths are "lazy" and try to avoid flying as much as possible. When they want to eat, these birds literally open their beaks and wait for the food, insects, to simply crawl in.

This is wallaby, a cute kangaroo's look-alike. They can be found not only in Australia, Tasmania or New Zealand, but also in Scotland, England and France. European wild wallabies are the results of groups escaped from various zoos. Despite being considered invasive species in Europe they haven't managed to harm the ecosystem. Yet.

Tiger is frolicking in the stream with airplane ears.

Every day at 3 pm one of the park's cheetahs runs after a plush toy.

Without slo-mo all these actions would've taken less than 4 seconds.

Gorillas had a fight.

Nesting pelicans.

These were just some of the animals living in the park. It is certainly worth visiting San Diego to see the rest.

Thank you!