Campo Grande had weird art
And bees
And purple flowers
And pretty feather head dresses
And macaws
Feeding each other
And more head dresses
And a vulture
And a mutant cow
With too many legs
And a caracara
And some better taxidermy
But still creepy
And an agouti
And pastels
They opened up this park just for us.
It had a bird that looks like a robin but isn’t.
And lots of tegus
This one has a false eye
The bigger ones were sunning on the path
They hid under the fence when we got close
But didn’t seem too worried
They wandered away slowly
Sniffing
When they got tired of Kerri and her camera
This is an armadillo
The coati’s were not as bold here
These palm trees aren’t as good for shade
And the bugs are weird.
We took a picture of the rib fish we were always eating at the aquarium.
But we can’t remember which one it is.
This fish keeps its babies in its mouth.
This is a catfish.
There were a lot of fish.
Some of them we saw snorkelling.
Some we did not.
Some are from different rivers.
This one has orange eyes.
This is what snorkelling with caiman would have looked like if the water was clearer.
One of these birds is not like the others
These are all scarlet macaws at the bottom
But up at the top here there’s a blue and yellow one.
But he doesn’t know that.
Because Macaws don’t have mirrors.
He’s the only blue and yellow macaw around.
His partner is scarlet
If they have a baby it will be orange.
These are flutterbys.
They sometimes also don’t want to be photographed.
Some people call them butterflies
But that’s just silly
They have nothing to do with butter
They flutter by.
So they are flutterbys.
Someone should tell the dictionary people.
