Thursday, January 19, 2012

the Belize Zoo

How much time do I have to convince you this is the most extraordinary zoo in the Americas? How many pictures can I post?  . . . Oh, well, these few will suffice to give the flavor.

First, here's where we stayed in a tarp-covered screened hut in the woods:





This sign near the zoo entrance sets the stage:





Then there was the Crested Guan Coholito:




the Jabiru Stork:
and the crocodiles, oh my! We thought they were concrete models at first - one even had a few leaves lying in his open mouth.




a coatimundi:

harpy eagle:

and last, but definitely not least, jaguars:




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