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San Diego Zoo bus tour: Comedian Chris Clobber is "Zooman" during the day

Chris Clobber: “I wrote and perform a thing called the Lighter Side Tour, which is a comedy tour of the San Diego Zoo,” Clobber said during a recent phone interview. “It’s in place of your sort of the generic ‘and then right there’s an elephant’ kind of thing. I love working with everyone at the San Diego Zoo, with the people and the information and everything they’ve put together over there but mostly I like making the visitors laugh.”

Known as the Zoo Man to San Diego families, Clobber has been entertaining locals and tourists for years with his animal sounds and lighthearted humorous take on animal education.

“They call me Zoo Man over at the zoo during the day but they call me Chris Clobber, stand up comedian by night, and the guy at the comedy club and the guy at the zoo have very different approaches,” Clobber said. “

From purpletink007:

Chris Clobber is related to Laurence M. Klauber (1883 in San Diego, California – 1968) who was an American herpetologist, and was considered to be the foremost authority on rattlesnakes.

References:

Comedian Clobber thrives on animal magnetism http://buff.ly/1ggU2iA
Laurence Monroe Klauber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://buff.ly/1ggU4aj

Koalapalooza - San Diego Zoo video

SDZoo | February 18, 2011 | See how today's koala joey naming event went and check out what's in store for the rest of Koalapalooza.

How to vacation in San Diego on a budget | Mint Blog, 2011.
Koala - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - photo, 2012.

San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California

Air Safari at the world-famous San Diego Zoo. From Wikipedia: San Diego Zoo is one of the largest, most progressive zoos in the world with over 4,000 animals of more than 800 species.

Air Safari is "an overhead gondola lift that provides an aerial view of the Zoo and is a quick way to move from opposite ends of the Zoo."

Koala Eats Gum Leaves at San Diego Zoo

Chinese sheep

Hippo, Okapi, Snake skeleton

African rain forest

Indian elephant and other animals and plants

Indian Rhinoceros

Indian Rhino at San Diego Zoo

A bamboo door at the canyon

An elevator from the canyon the the "upper floor" of the Zoo

From Wikipedia: The San Diego Zoo also operates the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which displays animals in an even freer condition than at the Zoo. Some animals are regularly exchanged between the two locales to provide them with a regular change of scenery.

References:
San Diego Zoo, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Related:
San Diego: An oasis of indulgence. Independent, 09/2008.
36 Hours in San Diego. NYTimes, 09/2008.

How to vacation in San Diego on a budget | Mint Blog, 2011.

Seaport Village in Downtown San Diego, California

Seaport Village is located at the bay in downtown San Diego, California. San Diego is the 7th largest city in the U.S.A., with about 1.2 million residents.

Embarcadero Marina Park

Seaport Village

San Diego-Coronado Bridge, locally referred to as the Coronado Bay Bridge. From Wikipedia: The bridge was designed exclusively for motor-vehicle traffic: there are no pedestrian walkways, bike paths, or even shoulders. It has been said that the reason for this was to prevent persons from leaping off the bridge to commit suicide. Considering the volume of traffic on the bridge as of 2006, should a vehicle break down or encounter another problem, it will almost certainly cause a serious collision, as there is nowhere for the disabled vehicle to go, and no way for oncoming traffic to avoid it.

Seagull at San Diego Seaport Village

Seagull

References:
Seaport Village, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
San Diego-Coronado Bridge, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Related:
San Diego: An oasis of indulgence. Independent, 09/2008.
36 Hours in San Diego. NYTimes, 09/2008.

How to vacation in San Diego on a budget | Mint Blog, 2011.

Balboa Park, San Diego, California

The 200-foot California Tower in Balboa Park. From Wikipedia: Balboa Park is a cultural complex which contains 15 museums, theaters, gardens, shops and restaurants as well as the world-renowned San Diego Zoo.

Sculpture of El Cid Campeador. From Wikipedia: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1040-1099), known as El Cid Campeador, was a Castilian nobleman, then military and political leader who conquered and governed the city of Valencia.

House of Hospitality in Balboa Park. Most of the buildings are in the Spanish Revival style, a richly ornamented eclectic mixture of Spanish and Latin American architecture.