{"id":2738,"date":"2010-06-20T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2010-06-20T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T13:01:15","slug":"a-day-at-black-jungle-%e2%80%93-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/2738","title":{"rendered":"A Day at Black Jungle \u2013 Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always a gas to check out M and R’s dart frog collection; just as exciting and interesting: they are doing some bird breeding. There are Gouldian finches<\/a> and an ara\u00e7ari<\/a> named Lance in the store – other birds, too, but theses two enclosures (Lance especially) captivated me.<\/p>\n

Dendrobates leucomelas<\/em> Guyana Banded. Love these guys. Black Jungle’s banded leucs seem pretty bold – most others I’ve seen have been very shy.<\/p>\n

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Dendrobates auratus<\/em>. When I first got interested in dart frogs I was lukewarm on auratus<\/em>. No longer.<\/p>\n

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The tadpole room.<\/p>\n

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M and R had the folks from The Creature Teachers<\/a> down as well. They had some great<\/em> critters with them.<\/p>\n

Elliot the Umbrella Cockatoo. Elliot has more personality than some people I’ve met. He is an extrovert – within a couple minutes of him stepping onto my hand he and I were talking to each other, bobbing around and having a great time (at least I was – if Elliot wasn’t, he fakes it well).<\/p>\n

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He thought that posing for\u00a0photographs\u00a0was pretty weak tea after our Soul Train session; the people looking at Sarracenia<\/em> might want to have some fun, perhaps?<\/p>\n

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Skoochee the Coati<\/a>, so named because he puts his front paws out through the door of his crate and Flintstones himself around the room. For folks who are\u00a0unfamiliar\u00a0with Coatis – they are cousins of the raccoon from Central and South America. Long canines, amazing double-jointed nose, inquisitive – a favorite creature of mine.<\/p>\n

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