Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Capybara - Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris

in #animalphotography5 years ago

Greetings, dear friends! I invite you to join my walk through the zoological park of the city of Rivne, Ukraine. This vast territory of the animal kingdom will decorate your day.

I want to share with you my impressions of meeting this wonderful zoo and its inhabitants. There are a lot of impressions. Every year we try to get into this zoo.

People often have sympathy and vice versa, dislikes for some species of animals. Perhaps, after this journey, you will change your opinion about certain types of creatures from the animal kingdom.

I will not give bare encyclopedic data. All this you can read on the Internet. Those feelings that I experienced when meeting with animals, associations, that's what makes me go further. This is something that cannot be read, this is something that needs to be experienced, felt by each cell of the spinal cord.

If you were absent at the beginning of the journey, join in!

Our journey began six days ago, today, the seventh day. On the links that I gave below, you can get acquainted with such inhabitants of the zoo as pelicans, meerkats and the black-and-white rough lemur, African tortoise, horses and ponies, porcupines, nasua and tapir.

Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Pelicans
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Meerkat
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Black-and-white ruffed lemur
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - African spurred tortoise - Geochelone sulcata
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Horses and ponies
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Porcupines - Hystrix
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Nasua
Walking around the zoos - Zoo of Rivne - Ukraine - Tapir - Tapirus

After meeting with tapir we didn’t have to go far to meet other inhabitants of the zoo. In the same aviary lived huge rodents, relatives of guinea pigs, huge lovers of swimming - Capybaras.

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I felt like Gulliver in the land of giants, where giant rodents live. But, it is very friendly rodents.

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Copibars showed great interest in us. They are very curious. They really wanted to know what delicious we brought to them.

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I think you need to be very careful if you feed the copibar with your hands. The front incisors of these rodents are huge. They help them to eat aquatic vegetation in the river basin of South America. They are in their homeland, neighbors for tapirs.

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When the capybaras realized that they had eaten everything that we had, they lost interest in us and lay down in the shade to rest.

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They gave us a lot of positive emotions.

We saw the Capybara, we are going to move on, many more interesting things await us. To be continued.

The zoo is located at the exit from the city of Rivne towards Kiev. The street is called Kiev.

Tickets at affordable prices, a children's ticket costs a little more than one US dollar, for adults, tickets cost about two dollars.

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Photos taken with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 camera
Author @barski
Ukraine

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Never seen or known about capybaras.. this is such an interesting animal, looks like beaver.. but totally different one, right? Thanks for taking us in your journey @barski😉 .. is it okay to feed them with human food?

Not sure i have even seen these great shots and thanks for the info :)

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