Belize City - Even in Belize, you never know if you will actually see wildlife and birds in the jungle. But you are guaranteed to see it at the Belize Zoo.
The zoo has an unusual history. In the 1980s, Belize was the setting for a wildlife documentary called Path of the Raingods. By the time filming had ended, many of the animals had been partially tamed and could not safely be released in the wild. Biologist Sharon Matola - who oversaw the care of the animals during the filming - decided to give them a home.
So the Belize Zoo was founded. In addition to the original movie stars, all of the resident animals were either born here or rescued from captivity, or they were orphaned or injured in the wild. As such, they all are indigenous to Belize.
The highlights were definitely the Big Cats: a couple of jaguars (including the black jaguar - check out his spots!), as well as an ocelot, jagarundi, margay and puma (not pictured).
The very rare harpy eagle turned out to be quite a show-off.
A flirtatious emerald toucanet came over to have his picture taken.
Speaking of flirtatious, Jerry got a kiss from Scotty the Baird's tapir on our way out.
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