Welcome to the zoo : The pictures - New pics 23 january 2021

The excellence of your photos makes Nature looks even more wonderful that it already is. These birds are really beautiful!

Beautieful birds!!

Well.. Thank you very much It is so good to have such compliments I guess I will make more pics in 2015

I used to play with chameleons like this one. They can still be found in my homeland. I wished to play with these caimans too once they're dwarf!
Photos are excellent as usual! :)

Playing with chameleons... You are a lucky croc Rogério. Portugal fauna is fantastic

wowww

Thanks

Great pics again, i wish in my homeland i can also see chameleons. But my only wildlife exemplar i saw in Türkiye :)

Chameleon in Germany... Hippos and Papyrus in the Loire

They are all so awesome
Fabulous photos again

I suppose they don't have Surinam toads in Portugal ?
If they did, I would not want to go there, - for some reason they scare the *beep* out of me

I agree Surinam toads are not the most beautiful animal ever, but they are amazing mothers

Hatching their babies on/in their backs right?

Great photos again Kiki

I've spent most part of my childhood next to the border of a Natural Park Ria Formosa. A lagoon in the South of Portugal with a fantastic weather where we can find many migratory birds. As I lived in a half-rural suburbe, between beaches and woodland, I was lucky to play outside home, spending almost complete days watching wild life and often playing with some animals. Chameleons were quite common, and they work nicely as pets although I rarely used to take them home. No Surinam toads, of course though, I enjoyed a lot watching the lifecycle of different species of toads and frogs. They were quite common around. Curiously, my favorite was the weirdest ones. I was also good catching arthropods, from bees, scorpions, praying mantis, huge grasshoppers. I recomend all of you to touch wall lizards but not bats as I did often once I was not aware of rabies. Centipeds, mise, several passerines, are among the many animals I could touch and manage without hurting, of course. In beaches we also can find a diversified wild life, mainly crabs!
My favorites to watch were flamingos, storks, barn owls and other large birds. Curiously, the only animals I feared were snakes although local species were innofensive. The only minus was that I have never found a crocodile, only Ocellated lizards!

I googled Ria Formosa pics...    

You lived in a wonderful place Rogério, Ria Formosa is a real gift for a child, what a place!

No crocs? It's time to open a crocodile farm in this sunny paradise

NightLioness wrote:

Hatching their babies on/in their backs right?

Yes Karine

Kikimalou wrote:

I googled Ria Formosa pics...    

You lived in a wonderful place Rogério, Ria Formosa is a real gift for a child, what a place!

No crocs? It's time to open a crocodile farm in this sunny paradise

We often live in wonderful places but we tend to be distracted. We always want what is far from us and miss what life give us. I enjoyed and enjoy the region where I live and I also love Lisbon. I am sure if everyone start seeing the place where one lives with other eyes, we'll feel happier and positively surprised.

1:02, a good hour for philosophy

We are able, I guess, to be happy almost everywhere. Though, some places are incredibly beautiful. When I look at the pics I have no doubt Ria Formosa is such a place

Kikimalou wrote:

 1:02, a good hour for philosophy  

We are able, I guess, to be happy almost everywhere. Though, some places are incredibly beautiful. When I look at the pics I have no doubt Ria Formosa is such a place

Ria Formosa is really a great place. But no angels there, only sporadically some hammerheads!

Angel or not, Sharks rule

Next week-end I was in a very very bad mood, I was free from work and the sun was shining... Horrible no???

So I decided to put all my wrath on my family! Despite cries and pleas, I obliged my wife and daughter to go at the Planckendael Dierenpark (Belgium). Yes I did.

Here are some pics of my abuse of authority

First a visit at the Indian rhinos fence, Ienjoy every time a meeting with these delicate and charming animals

The funny thing with the rhinos is they share their home with Reeve's muntjaks

Nice pics of beautieful animals :)

Another visit in Asia to Andrews fabs

widukind wrote:

Nice pics of beautieful animals :)

Thank you Speedy Andreas