david attenborough eat your heart out

I saw the most amazing wildlife in the Pantanal.  whist I do not have my photos left, consider it your homework to look up these animals, some of the many I saw...

birds (to name but a few)
jabiru stork
great rhea (ostrich)
macaw parrots, red ones, blue ones, yellow ones
toucans
ibis
vultures and eagles

animals
howler monkeys, hiding up in the trees
capibara, the worlds largest rat
peccary pig
tapir! one of the five least spotted animals in the pantanal
giant anteater, with its big bushy tail, right up close
armadillo
water buffalo, a whole herd of them cooling off up to their necks in water
ginger racoon

reptiles
false anaconda
caiman alligators, two kinds
lizard

I actually waded out across a flooded river, waist high in water, camera safely held above my head in one hand, guide's hand held in a vice like grip in the other, all to see the howler monkeys.  I had heard them howling every morning and wanted to see what creatures could make such a racket.

I borrowed the above photos from these websites, thank you.
http://www.birdseyeviewbelize.com/home.htm - jabiru stork
http://www.houstonzooblogs.org/zoo/tag/giant/ - giant anteater
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news - howler monkey
http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/cardshowall.php?title=los-animales-animals - caiman
http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/armadillo/ - armadillo

PS I'll tell you something cool, I was just trying to find the proper name for the ginger racoon on google and when I googled Pantanal, my blog came up twice!  how cool is that???