Buenos Aires Photo Post: Zoo Fun!
January 14, 2009
Yesterday I went to the Buenos Aires Zoo!
They let you get pretty close to the elephants!
I took a picture of a peacock’s butt!
Tell me this isn’t a rat. These things run free throughout the zoo. They are larger than most dogs in Manhattan. They are like rats, but with rabbit teeth, and slightly ducky feet. What the fuck are you, crazy cracker-eater??? Kids were totally clustered around it, having fun playing with it and its many friends. This thing would be terrifying on the subway platform. I googled “Buenos Aires zoo rats” and got this lady’s account of a trip to the zoo, in which she posits that the creatures in question are beavers. She also comments on the “hybrid” deer-rabbit-kangaroo things that just run wild. Yeah, I was way confused by those.
I am a big fan of less-exotic, more accessible animals that you can touch. The goats kept poking their heads out from under the bottom of the fence!
This is a nice picture, but I decided I wanted to get a close-up of myself with a goat. This is difficult when you are taking the photos yourself with your iPhone, and the goats don’t understand what this is all about, and also they eat your shirt and purse.
The goat moved its head at the last minute, and I only got an ear.
The goat moved its entire head, as though the head had never existed in the first place.
My nose. Goat nose. We’re improving.
Aww…
Um….
Yay! I am calling this one a winner. I made a goat-friend! A goat on the subway platform would be confusing, yes, but hardly terrifying. We can all get along. I will buy extra purses that my new goat-friend will find especially delicious.
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The large rodent is a capybara.
Whoa! I think you’re right! Here’s a video of someone touching a really big capybara:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyzR8w2i7bM
Jen.
Capybara can get up 100lbs. They are rodents, but they eat plants, not cute young tourists.
[...] to an astute commenter, I’ve been informed that the rat-like creature from my zoo post is a capybara.My trip to the zoo prompted my mother to send me an article about a “horror [...]
They should make a calendar with capybaras, doing Olympic sports:
http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/grueling-guinea-pig-games-of-the-2009-olympics/humor-humour
Wouldn’t work as well with goats, but might be even nicer.
The grueling guinea pig games from the last post were hilarious. How about cage fighting for the horror toads?
No…the animal Jen spoke of is not a capybara….
If you do a search on that, you will find that it is a totally different animal, and they are not allowed to run wild in the Buenos Aires Zoo.
I just got back and was wondering the same thing and still have not found out what it was…it’s more like a funny muskrat. Also, I’m still trying to find out what the little rabbit like animal was which runs all over the zoo!
Great pics by the way, Jen. I loved feeding the goats…albeit not purses, et al.
Cindy H
Ahh…found it, it’s a Coipo
http://www.webcodeff.cl/espanol/datos/html/img/info/Coipo(1).jpg
I have several pictures of them, too! SO cute.
[...] the zoo is not a new thing for me. In Argentina in 2009, I spent a really long time trying to get a good Jen-meets-goat photo while the goats tried to eat my [...]