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Monday, July 4, 2011

A visit with the Bonobos

We went to see our friends the Bonobo chimps yesterday. Taking pictures of them is very difficult because of the fence around their sanctuary.  If you try to get close to take a picture through the fence they have a habit of running up and grabbing the camera and throwing dirt at visitors.  We were only able to get one good picture of a mom and her baby resting after eating their lunch.

 

We saw some interesting critters as we walked around the sanctuary too - 


Different kinds of Dragonflies
Butterflies

Some fuzzy and prickly caterpillars that look like they would be very hard to swallow if you were a bird trying to eat them.  Yuck!!
A cute tiny little yellow beetle

And finally a couple of cool spiders.  Thanks goes to our featured C-O-N-G-O blog Bug Hunter - Emily for having found the zig-zag web spider above. 
Keep your feelers out cuz we're going to be buggin' you again soon !!





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