Earlier this week we had the opportunity to go to the Buenos Aires Zoo. I don´t particularly like zoo´s, but am drawn to them for some reason or another. I usually leave feeling mildly ashamed, and sadend for the larger animals and the predator types as well.
With that said I do enjoy seeing animals up close and I fall in love with all the cute things that I come into contact with. The creature on the left was particularly cute. I´m not sure what it is, but it was sort of like an otter and a rat combined. They ran all over the zoo and we were encouraged to feed them biscuits that were on sale for 5 pesos a bucket. Which we chose to not buy. But if you see children feeding the animals you can usually wait until they scare all of them away and then pick up two or three biscuits for later use.
The zoo had an abundance of pettable animals from chickens and normal barnyard animals to some rather interesting gazelle and antelope like animals as well.
Waa ha! I think that orange toothed rat-otter hybrid is a Nutria. There was a time where you could bag yourself a Nutria and take the carcass to the Louisiana state government, which would pay you a price per pound. Something to keep in mind for the trip back...
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ReplyDeleteKathy....that you?
ReplyDeleteI was away for about 2 months and what a nice surprise to actually be able to see you guys having such a great time! Thanx for the pics and blogs Jon! They're great! Stay safe and enjoy your volunteer MIA period. I have NO CLUE of where to post comments, except here. So here it is! Also stay healthy!