As you can probably guess by the title, we went to the zoo today! It was a lot of fun though it was packed with less-than-perfectly-behaved children. The zoo is set up like a jungle paradise--with coconut trees, palms and various other exotic ground cover. So much so, wild birds of all kinds, butterflies, cats, etc. freely choose to make it their home. Everywhere you went birds were flying overhead and random animals were roaming the walkways. There were a lot of animals native to Brazil; birds in particular--there were hundreds of rare birds. We tried to get pictures of as much as possible but then the camera battery died so, we had to just commit everything to memory. The national bird of Brazil is the blue macaw (arara azul) and we got a nice picture of him...
Later in the evening, we also went to the National Planetarium and saw a show called "Ceu: Mito e Realidade" (The Heavens: Myth and Reality). It basically looked at the major constellations (the zodiac, etc.) and what the story is behind them, in particular how they were named.The place is huge and super high-tech; it made us a bit homesick, though--we go to the planetarium in Morgantown regularly even though it is significantly less impressive.
Below is a photo of a lion-monkey, which is native to Brazil and highly difficult to photograph. While there we had the typical zoo experiences: 1-paying WAY too much for snacks and water 2-getting spit on by at least one animal 3-seeing at least one monkey spread-eagle and playing with himself 4-seeing a pair of something getting it on in front of 50 unsuspecting children 5-baking alive in the heat 6- taking lots pictures that no one will care about but you 7-seeing some unlucky person get pooped on 8-seeing one child have a complete meltdown over ice cream or something like it 9- Ahhh! smelling that "natural" air and 10-watching everyone (kids especially) learn a lot about our furry, feathery, scaly, slithery, slimy friends :)
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