Tom picked us up from the airport and drove us straight to the Belize Zoo. Here we saw all sorts of indigenous animals. The Tapir is the country's mammal and is related to horses - though it looks more like a cross between a wild boar and an anteater.
The spider monkeys were out of their enclosure and this little female was extremely gregarious - we kept stepping back and she kept coming closer. Tom ran and told the zoo keeper that she and a couple of her friends had escaped. They came to round them up and we moved along.
The leopard was born at the zoo and is very friendly - for an extra fee you can get in the pen with him - I passed on that one!
The mountain lion is similar to the one we have in Texas.
There we many smaller, furry animals, so many I can't remember their names. Some of them were out of their pen as well.
I didn't get a good picture of the birds, but there were some fantastic looking ones. If you go to Belize we recommend a stop at the zoo. After traveling all morning, it was nice to go there and stretch our legs and it broke up the trip out to the Lodge.
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