pantanal day 2

A duck. Or more.

The backside of an otter (not the giant river otter, but the other one)

we saw this snake in the forest, but it was too fast for me to take a picture

another marsh deer

These were cool, they were these plants, and the inner ring of the leaves legitimately looks like it has been spray painted orange.

better picture of the Tiger heron

Jabiru nest (the big white black and red bird)

it´s that bird I see all the time in Buenos Aires!

see look, now it´s flooded

dog at the entrance of a farm

another bird I see all the time in Buenos Aires, that I think is my favorite

more sandpaper plant, only this is a sapling

This is cool, I believe it was called stingray vine or stingray ivy, but the natives use the leaves to treat stingray stings.

monk parakeet and nest

i think this was a black hawk

This was a vulture

there´s a blue thing on the rightish side, in the bush

yellow bird on top

this bird had a nest in the rafters of the shelter

a developing moth

their christmas tree

a bee hive on the mango tree in the yard

I was trying to get a pic of an insect, or maybe the spider...

black collared hawk

Amazon kingfisher

this is the snake bird, because it submerges itself almost completely underwater with just the neck sticking out, so it looks like a snake

this one has a fish

oh, one time we got too close to a caiman, so it did its territorial display: it lifts its head and tail out of the water, and then lets it go with a loud splash

the seventh bird from the left is a spoon bill, and the rest of them are ... something else, I forgot

spoonbill flying

they all decided to leave

giant river otters! climbing out of the water because we scared them.

the next bunch of pictures are of the river otters playing, swimming, and being awesome in the water.

this was a bunch of roots and branches that hung over the water, and is where the otters had their nest

close up

We saw this while watching the otters: a capybara afflicted with a protozoa of some type, that causes their legs to go like that.

Otter wrestling!

the whitish parts are the part underneath their chin, like their chest. They have a white lower jaw, and then a white chest with some markings

I tried getting more pictures of insects. This was a cricket

This was a huge beetle of some kind

we went for a night drive, and cruelly shined bright lights on nocturnal animals. Oh, well. This was a tarantula crossing the road.

These are crab eating foxes.

also, we saw but did not photograph: the other type of deer (not the marsh deer), several rabbits, and a crab eating raccoon.