Drove 40 minutes out of the city to the Belize zoo, where they only have injured, abandoned or donated critters. It's an educational centre, with large enclosures with lots of trees and vegetation. We were there early and saw so many animals: a cute grey fox, a beautiful jaguar right at the fence, a sleeping ocelot, margay cats sleeping in the fork of a tree, peccary, coatamundi (relative of raccoons), howler and spider monkeys, and tapir, or mountain cow, the national animal. Birds we saw were a jabiru up close, parrots, scarlet macaw, an emerald toucan and the larger keel billed toucan. The two hours we spent there went by quickly.
A film crew from Japan was there filming for a documentary about Belize.
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