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Wildlife Xing June 9, 2016

Someone quite artistic has replaced the generic ‘Caution: animals — 35 KPH’ signs with individually hand-painted ones:

A very accurate pair of curassows, which frequently cross the road, although not exclusively at this spot.

Unfortunately, I saw most of these as I was getting into the station by taxi, so I was unable to get a close look at the whole set. The other one close to the station is this one:

That’s a jaguar and a pair of jabirus, which are huge storks.

I have to say that I’ve never seen either of those cross the road, there or anywhere else. But I did see a jabiru fly by a few days ago. And a couple of days ago, I saw these farther down the road:

It was probably a puma, though. Jaguars are on the park species list, but they’re very rare.