Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Sandra Fleming Studios, who is no stranger to our Caption Challenge. 

Let’s high five her with a big, green slimy fin!

Hey, its me, Swampy! I'm going to get you out there, okay? In the meantime keep it low key!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 
Shannon Krugman: Holy Crap!!! I hope that’s not my reflection!!

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SECOND RUNNER UP:

 Stacey Ricks: Take me to your leader!

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THIRD RUNNER UP:

 Kristen McGrady: I challenge you to a staring contest…and go……5 minutes later and winner still has not been declared!

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Johnnie T. Melia Moving & Storage Co., Inc.: Well lets see if eharmony can find a match for me…

Amy Farrugia Jones You are getting sleepy. When you awake you will bark like a dog every time you see the color red.

Kristal White If you believe it you can do it. Now concentrate and swim thru the glass

Erika Wehmeyer Livingston I hate it when these fish come by my aquarium to stare at me!

Barbara Blanchard Reed ‎…They really do exist…

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Tricia Nicole Mulkey McClelland!

SPOT-ACULAR, and the flock cheers!

Doesn't smell like chicken...

FIRST RUNNER UP:

  Lizette Kim Gonzalez: Darn… they’ve tricked me again!! ITS PLASTIC!! GGGRRRRRRAAAH…

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SECOND RUNNER UP:

  Sara Keene-Jeter: I thought we got free range, not processed

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THIRD RUNNER UP:

  Lynne Hengst: I wonder if Jonathon flamingo flocked me !?!?

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Tonia White: Ugh! I can’t eat this! Its pink!

Dana Rice: Unfortunately, the hiney sniff doesn’t give me any clue as to what this creature is. To eat or not to eat?

Tammy Farnsworth: If I get a wee bit lower I can blend right in…

Erika Wehmeyer Livingston: Nope. I still don’t see why the dogs do that!

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Tracy Thornton 

** CROWD ROAR!**

If you squint your eyes just right, they look like lunch

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 
Niki Roberts: Lester, I don’t have my glasses, are those people watching us?
No, dear, just the trees.

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A TIE FOR SECOND RUNNER UP:

Mike McDermott: Keep smiling, then I’ll take the one on the right, you cover me… 

Asa-Mari Elric: Nah. People give me gas. Let’s order pizza

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AND A TIE FOR THIRD RUNNERS UP:

Susan Cunningham: Darling, we must remember our sunglasses next time

Amy Farrugia Jones: “Just closeyour eyes, maybe they will go away!”

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Charlie Paul: If you squint hard enough you can imagine the Sahara over there…

Nicole Key: “Just LION around! Get it? Cause we’re lions?”
“Dammit, Jonathan, I got it! I didn’t laugh cause it’s still not funny.”

Nancy Gray Barrow: Pardon me my Queen…do we have any Grey Poupon?

AmyandVinnie Antoline: “The next Solar eclipse is when again”?

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted with the top voted caption by Leigh Spencer! ** Insert a day-after-Halloween Happy Dance!**

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Wait all you want, I'm not climbing into that pumpkin until you put the camera away!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Stacey Ricks: Please sir, can I have some more?

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A SECOND RUNNER UP:

 
Renee Geer Leasure:  While I was on look out duty ya’ll ate all the goodies? This better be a trick!

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THIRD RUNNERS UP:

Barbara Blanchard Reed: sigh….I got a rock.

Toni Frazer Barber: I know the economy isn’t doing so well right now but this is a little drastic don’t you think?

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Diana Mercado: It wasn’t me…I didn’t eat all of the candy! I am naturally this full looking

Rosie Villegas: Wasn’t there suppose to be a rabbit?

Bryan Skinner: Meerkat on November 1st. “It can’t be over! It just can’t!”

Megan Tennill: Can I have some Candy, Pwease? I used my Meerkat Manners!

Heather Sauers: I can haz halloweenz candeez??

Kim Ivy Swicegood: What do you mean? This IS my costume!

Tricia Nicole Mulkey McClelland: You have to be kidding me… Right?

Lyndsey Butler:
Don’t trick this meerkat
Treat me fat
Place insects and crawlies in my pumpkin bowl
Or empty handed I’ll return to my burrowed hole

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Thanks for joining in the fun!
We hope you all had a really FUN Halloween… on to November!

Last Friday, we asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted - taken by Houston Zoo volunteer Juile Bearman –with the top voted caption by Rebecca Dolen Bowers ! ** Insert a Halloween Happy Dance!**

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Darling, please tell me where you get your hair done. That is the exact color I was going for.

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Sandra Fleming Studios: Take a deep breath. Does it hurt here? What about here? _________________________________________________________________________________

A SECOND RUNNER UP:

Donna Weaver: “We’ll have to let those trousers out just a little around the waist.

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HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Sharika Brooks: ARE THEY SURE IM NOT A CHAMELEON?

Paul White: cousin it!

Shannon Smith Stilwell: Oooh a well ventilated little Tamarin casa just for me. Now, how do I get in?

Randall Laughlin: I swear I left my keys right here!

Stephanie Feller Lundy: I….I think i love you!

Kathern Sparks: “Orange you glad it’s Halloween? I know I am!” 4

Lori Schumacher: I’ll hide behind you and when they walk up I’ll jump out and yell, “Boo!” 4

Christine Forisha: Hey bud, have you tried the Hair Club for Primates? Works great!

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Thanks for joining in the fun!

Last Friday, we posted  not one but TWO photos on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Julie Wood! ** Insert a Halloween Happy Dance!**

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Picture # 1

It'll be better feng shui if I put the pumpkin over here.

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Stacey Ricks: JACK! My Orange Brotha from anotha Motha!

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A  SECOND RUNNER UP

 Carla Combs: Now, How am I supposed to light the candle in this big orange thing all my appendages are busy already !!!

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Honorable Mentions: 

Montero Aura: I Got This!

April Walker:  My pumpkin and I are just hanging around…

Rosie Villegas: Its mission impossible!

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FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THERE IS A TIE FOR THE WINNING CAPTION! CONGRATUALTIONS TO Cassidy Lentsch and  Shannon Krugman. In honor of this momentus occasion, we will post two, count ‘em two of the pictures, so you each can see how your caption looks in the wining spot! SWEET!

This caption is from Shannon Krugman: 

Picture # 2

Ok kid, this is how were gonna do it. First we carve out the pumpkin. Then we put it on our head and walk right out of the gate just like all the other trick or treaters.

And this caption is from Cassidy Lentsch:

That tiger from last week thinks he's going to win the zoo pumpkin carving contest? HA! Now hand me the knife, Indah- one gourd-geous Mona Lisa coming up!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Sandra Fleming Studios: You are going to eat this monkey biscuit and like it, Pumpkin! 
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A  SECOND RUNNER UP

Alma Garza Mescher: You do it your way and I’ll do it mine!

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Funny Honorable Mentions:

Cathleen Grauel Schlechte: Heyyyy! Can’t we get some alone time with our pumpkin please?

Kasi Silguero: Ready to get my carve on

Jennifer Hillier Rodriguez: I’m going to play this pumpkin just like Matthew McConaughey plays the bongos!

Guppy Man:  What do you mean, you are supposed to roast the seeds first? These tatse just fine!

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Last Friday, we posted a photo on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Alma Garza Mescher. 

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

I thought it was bobbing for apples, not pumpkins!

FIRST RUNNER UP:

 
Cassidy Lentsch:  With these vicious claws and teeth, I’m a shoe-in to win the pumpkin carving contest. Those bears are only getting second this year!

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A HILARIOUS SECOND RUNNER UP

 Mary Klumpp:  TAKE THIS CINDERELLA!

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TOO MANY Funny Honorable Mentions:

Sandra Fleming Studios: Hey, do I have something stuck in my teeth? 

Randall Laughlin: What happened to just coughing up fur balls!

Blythe Smith McDonald: Nom-O-Lantern

 Dawneen Hebert:  ‎”Nice try pumpkin…. but you can’t escape my awesome pouncing skills!!!”

Sue Harmon-Astorga: I ordered Cafe Mocha – NOT Pumpkin Spice latte!!!!!

Barbara Blanchard Reed: I’m taking my pumpkin and going home!

Tom Burke: I can has punkin?

Margaret Margo Augustin: Does this make me look fat?_________________________________________________________________________________

Last Friday, we posted a photo on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Tiffany  Alton- Herrmann!!!  Everybody ROAR!

 FIRST RUNNER UP:

Sandra Fleming Studios: Alrighty then Doctor . . . let’s hope for another successful organ transplant.

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SECOND RUNNER UP

Enchanted Forest: Heeeey BooBoo, It’s a pic-a-nic basket!

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MANY Funny Honorable Mentions:

Bridget Robbins Haines: WHERE’S THE BEEF!?

Amanda Pinup’perfect Isbell: Aren’t polar bears supposed to be at the north pole? I’m telling Santa they took my Coca-Cola again and they are going on the naughty list!

Stacey Ricks: Who drank the last Coke? Grrrrrr……

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Last Friday, we posted a photo on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Kathy Burgamy! (Insert happy dance)

Ok so I'm a guy right? So who is trying to trick me with this egg looking thing?

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Kristen McGrady: If these green pigs won’t eat the egg then I will!

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SECOND RUNNER UP

Erik Burington Why can’t we go back to the good days where they used to hide our pills in our food?

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MANY Funny Honorable Mentions:

Kathy Russell: I hate it when they misplace my bowling bag

Aurora Gonzalez: It’s “JAWBREAKER VS JAWBREAKER!

John Larkin: Smaug!! How many times do I have to tell ya – stop biting your brother!!!

Alma Garza Mescher: I’m a professional. Do NOT try this at home!

Mica Arismendez ‎Maybe I should forget about this ball, the foot in front of me would be much easier to gnaw on!

( …and the opposite opinion!) Jonathan Plazek: The foot is tempting, but I’ll take the egg

Barbara Blanchard Reed From the Schweddy family recipe  

Alan G Pallister Whoever invented all-day gobstoppers is a genius.

Brad Orr Is it just me or are these pills getting bigger???

Dorothy Simms ‎Oh I get it, the largest egg on earth for the largest lizard on earth!

Dana Rice ‎ Well, she said ‘go suck an egg’…I hope this makes her happy

 Racheal Emig: Fido’s got nothin on me!

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Last Friday, we posted a photo on Facebook and asked you to leave your best caption in the comment section. Then readers could “like” each caption comment to vote for their favorites. Their votes, combined with those of our own panel, determined the caption to appear under the picture right here on the Official Houston Zoo Blog this week. We hope you’ll come back for the fun EVERY FRIDAY.

YOUR VOTES HELP DETERMINE THE WINNERS!

Here is the picture that was posted on Facebook last Friday, with the top voted caption by Hanna Kenas Roach!!! RAWRRRRR!

Don't tell him I said this, but I think he's had a little too much work done. You know what I mean?

FIRST RUNNER UP:

Bryan Skinner:  Jonathan, did you do something different with your mane this morning?

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SECOND RUNNER UP!

Alma Garza Mescher: Psssstttt….’The Lion King’ in 3D comes out today and is only out for 2 weeks….spread the word.
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Honorable Mentions:

Kathy Russell: Definitely not a another brother from another mother

Jeff Gifford: Bet he tastes like chicken…

David Frels: Psst! Simba! Over here! Pride Rock is that way. Jonathan is the king of this zoo.

Nicole Gayleen Porterpan: Is this some sort of trick for enrichment day? Of course we know that’s our keeper dressed in a lion suit. Try harder please.

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 Call of the Wild Speaker Series is Back! 

Carnivore Supervisor Kevin Hodge trains our big handsome male Jonathan

Lions Kick Off Fall Line Up  
Tuesday, October 4
* Special Lion Demo Event: Starts at 5:45, limit to 40 people 
* Lion Lecture:  6:30 p.m: Pre-event lite bites and wine, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.: Speaker

The people of Mozambique are co-existing with lions thanks to the work of Dr. Colleen Begg, founder of the Niassa Lion Project. Enjoy her thrilling stories and amazing adventures in Africa as she starts off our Speaker Series. Enjoy Light bites and wine and soft drinks and conservation merchandise table before the lecuture, starting at 6:30 p.m.

ANNOUNCING a special, pre-lecture Lion Demonstration event! Join Dr. Colleen Begg for a rare opportunity: an up close and personal view of the Houston Zoo’s African Lion pride getting a special meal and interacting with their keepers! Beginning promptly at 5:45 p.m.

 Attend the Lion Demo, the Lion Lecture or both!  Purchase your paperless tickets to these exciting events — and find out about our future wolf and Galapagos tortoise events – HERE!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Thanks for joining in the fun!

And please come on back for next Friday!

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