{"id":603,"date":"2021-08-12T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2021-08-12T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:33:06","slug":"caracals-tigrillos-y-pandas-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2021\/08\/12\/caracals-tigrillos-y-pandas-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Caracals, Tigrillos y Pandas, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started exploring the Bosque de Chapultepec<\/a>, Mexico City’s Central Park, by spending a couple of hours at the zoo, Zoológico de Chapultepec<\/a>, which apparently is one of the few places outside of Asia that has successfully bred giant pandas:<\/p>\n

\"Chapultepec<\/p>\n

\"Chapultepec<\/p>\n

We saw a couple of new (to us) animals — the caracal, with its crazy tufted ears:<\/p>\n

\"Caracal,<\/p>\n

. . . and the tigrillo, which looks exactly like a cross between a leopard and a housecat:<\/p>\n

\"Tigrillo\/Oncilla,<\/p>\n

Also never seen a capybara IRL:<\/p>\n

\"Capibara\/Capybara,<\/p>\n

Panda!<\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/p>\n

And even the animals in Mexico City know what to do should an earthquake occur:<\/p>\n

\"Earthquake<\/p>\n

Bosque de Chapultepec is alternately epic, lovely and scrappy — a tough thing for a park to pull off (and that’s only scratching the surface of part one — the 1600-acre park has three distinct sections):<\/p>\n

\"Altar<\/p>\n

\"Lago<\/p>\n

\"Axolotl,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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