The Buenos Aires Zoo is great and bizarre. I maybe biased by a visit on a sunny, uncrowded day.
It's entertaining, interactive, urban yet an Argentine love of the creature in all of us prevents anything from seeming cruel. We've been to a lot of zoo's around the world, and this one is unusual - it's big, it's in the middle of the city, yet has not been completely modernized.
It has large rodents running wild, aggressive ducks. It's completely not childproof featuring little lakes without railings everywhere. Full of architectural remnants from the days of great Argentine wealth - architecture that makes you wonder and think about how they saw animals and the rest of the world.
Apologies for the crappy camera again. The zoo was originally designed when the goal of zoos was to have people relax, picnic, stroll and happen to see some animals in small cages. So there's amble meandering space.
Here are some pics:
The elephant house built over 100 years ago is said to look like 'An Indian Temple'
It's entertaining, interactive, urban yet an Argentine love of the creature in all of us prevents anything from seeming cruel. We've been to a lot of zoo's around the world, and this one is unusual - it's big, it's in the middle of the city, yet has not been completely modernized.
It has large rodents running wild, aggressive ducks. It's completely not childproof featuring little lakes without railings everywhere. Full of architectural remnants from the days of great Argentine wealth - architecture that makes you wonder and think about how they saw animals and the rest of the world.
Apologies for the crappy camera again. The zoo was originally designed when the goal of zoos was to have people relax, picnic, stroll and happen to see some animals in small cages. So there's amble meandering space.
Here are some pics:
They sell food for the free-roaming animals.
The national pride: Mara's! Roam free 4th largest rodent, roam free! You will find them everywhere in the zoo, getting bullied by the most aggressive dog-sounding ducks I've ever seen. And very proud peacocks. They're easily confused with the LARGEST rodent who lives here too - the Carpinco, aka Capybara
no railings anywhere.
a sign in front of a demonstration about how people used to see the zoo, and the conflict between preserving history, animal species and prioritization.
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