The Jabiru’s skin pouches are all veiny
But the adults are kind of cute from further away.
The adults search for food on the ground.
For their babies.
Then they fly it up to the nest
And land
Carefully
And share the food.
They have a lot of big babies
So they need a lot of food.
This is a crimson crested woodpecker
It looks a lot like the woodpeckers back home
But smaller
So we weren’t terribly impressed.
There is a rope set up to bring the plastic bucket of fruit into this wooden bucket of fruit for the monkeys.
The monkeys like to help with the rope.
The fruit would probably come faster without their help.
Because with their help they have to be careful not to give the monkeys rope burn.
When the fruit is in the barrel, the howlers mostly scare away the capuchins.
So the capuchins have to quickly grab everything they can and run.
Before there’s a barrel of monkeys
Then they sit on the side watching for another opportunity.
While eating their fistfuls of course
When the barrel is empty they lick it out
Which can’t be great for their fur
It’s easy to tell which monkey was in the barrel
She will never look dignified again
No matter how hard she tries.
Fruit is messy.
It had not been a good morning for Calvin.
The caiman got away.
He shook himself off
Which was a little silly because he was still in the water
Took one last look at the caiman
And another look at us.
And another look into the water to make sure he hadn’t missed anything.
Made another big scary yawn
Checked to make sure we still knew he was unimpressed.
But still in charge
And turned back toward the shore
Did you think that was all the pictures Kerri took of capuchin monkeys?
You’re not that silly, are you?
Obviously you need another dozen pictures of this monkey with a banana peel
Even if I don’t have much else to say about him
Because he made lots of funny faces while eating
Did you not want to see a monkey tongue?
Really?
Then you need to find a new webpage
Because this is where monkey tongues hang out.
So there!
Dead leaves are not as good as banana peels
But he’ll still try them.
