We went to the zoo in Cista Cocha today, it was about a thirty minute motokar ride up the nawto highway :)
It's not your typically zoo, some would probably argue it's not a zoo at all, it lacks organization, direction,support facilities and in several cases a path on which to walk, often your left to truck it in the mud or battle the bugs, I managed to get yet another pair of toms stuck in the mud, but I'm happy to report, I'm getting pretty good at washing my shoes by hand lol, another odd thing about this zoo...
It had a beach... (Can you still call it a beach if it's not the ocean?)
Despite the oddities of the zoo the animals were neat and we had a nice time.....
There were jaguars ....
There were gators :) even in Peru Nancy I find the gator nation is everywhere
There were Macaws.... But they weren't very chatty :)
There were monkeys... Oh lordie there was a ton of monkeys :)
Small ones...
Big ones...
Really cute ones...
Ben got his fill of monkeys....
We saw other animals too... Like
Capybaras... The worlds biggest rodent : /
These things are BIGGER than my dog... Lol
An infestation of these would be a major problem lol
We also so the Peruvian version of a raccoon :) their much cuter over here...
And then we saw another twist on something we have back in the states...
Ants!!! lots of Ants!!!
Ants working hard...
Lots of ants working hard...
Yes I know I shouldn't be this excited about ants...
So just because everyone would mock me if I ended my pictures of the Zoo with pictures of insects, especially insects that weren't even on display in the zoo...
Here look at something the zoo actually prides itself on...
A cayman... Yay for the big lizard... If you ask me the ants were cooler lol
Oh and a... Ahhh I forgot again, 'insert name here'
This animal is apparently like a cow... Hmmm maybe it's just me but I don't get cow from this... Do you? I guessed it was related to an anteater but then again maybe I was just a little too focuses on ants today
I'm my defense the fact that I was so focused on the ants helped me avoid getting bitten by ants, which is quite impressive seeing as they were everywhere, so at least theres that :)
The zoo was really neat, and we had a great time, the rest of the day was a wash because right after we got back from the zoo the rain started again,a pouring thunderous rain, but such is life I guess lol, at least it didn't rain while we were at the zoo :)
That's all I got focus :) hope you enjoyed my ants as much as I did
Stay tuned :)
Location:Iquitos Peru
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