After spending the afternoon at Laguna Atascoca where we saw very little of interest, we were on our way home and came across this bobcat sauntering down the road paying little or no attention to us. After a while, he (she?) looked back as if to say, "What are you looking at, tourist?" and then trotted off into the brush where she disappeared almost immediately.
Earlier in the week we went to the Gladys Porter zoo where this juvenile gorilla was just harassing the adults. Manuel (see picture later in blog) tells me that JR.....the juvenile gorilla............... is the only male in the area.....all the others are females and JR rules. Here he is pulling the adult's hair and later we saw him trying to steal the orange out of another adult's hand. There are 4 male gorillas in the zoo but they are all related so they are in another area.
The girls just sat around (I suppose gossiping) in poses just like people.
This is the way flamingos eat. They tip their heads upside down in the water and swing it from side to side to bring mud and water in their mouth and then somehow or other their tongues filter out the nutrients. They may also stamp their feet to stir up the mud to get more nutrients from it. A flamingo doesn't get it's color until it is at least 3 years old.
Charlotte is a volunteer at the sting ray pool
She says that the sting rays like to be patted so Neil did. I took pictures.
The ray kept coming back for Neil to pat him. Charlotte says the barbs on his back have been removed but for us not to try to touch them on the underside. Not a problem.
I got a little too close to the caracara cage and he thought he would sample my shirt . I guess it wasn't too tasty because he let go when I tugged at it.
I don't know if this little guy enjoyed the zoo..............he was too short to see.
This looked like a time out for giraffes who had been bad but when I got up closer
I found that the sign was for you to make a donation to a fund that helps conserve giraffes in the wild and for that donation, you would be able to feed the animals. Once again, the same little boy is too small to even see them and look at the straggly little branch he got to feed them. The others got long green branches with leaves. Bad grandparents were totally unaware
The little girls parents lifted her up.
She was scared but doesn't the giraffe look pleasant and gentle?
I guess he likes children because both he and the baby are sticking their tongues out at the ladies taking pictures.
This is Manuel and he is the keeper of the giraffes 24-7 . He says that when that little baby was born, the mother wouldn't take care of it so he had to hand feed it. It was 6 ft tall and he had to carry it out of the cage. I don't know how much it weighed but he said it was heavy.
Have you seen those cartoons with cute little Meerkats? Lies!
Just look at those evil eyes and he could use a pedicure.
Does he look hungry to you? I thought he was looking a little to directly at me...Time to leave.
The New Year always brings itself in without my help so I will toddle off.
Happy New Year
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