Puerto Vallarta Zoo

One day we walked from our hotel to the Puerto Vallarta zoo-which was really close to our hotel. I had read some really good things about it, so we decided to check it out, and I'm glad we did!
It was the funniest little zoo I've ever been to, but you could pay $5 extra for a bag of food and hand feed the animals. It was worth every penny :)
Capuchin monkeys
Rick, a little hesitant to feed the monkeys

Cocodrilos

It was a little unnerving that these green bars were the only think between you and this ferocious jaguar. It wouldn't stop pacing so I couldn't get a good pic, but regardless, we didn't opt to feed this guy.

This exhibit of goats, donkeys, llamas etc cracked us up! They were all very excited for some food.

The goats were really aggressive, butting anyone else out who tried to get food, so I was trying to get the sad donkey some treats.

The donkey thanked us by braying VERY loudly

Camels are giant.

Watch out, they spit!

A weird ostrich/emu like bird. It was creepy.

A cute yawning spider monkey

Rick, feeding a beautiful antelope

Flying flamingo

Spider monkey/flamingo show down

A zebra with very gross teeth

Rick feeding said zebra

I still can't believe i got to feed a giraffe! How cool is that?

Rick and the giraffe

Mr. Giraffe. His mouth was so weird!

Kinkajou

Feeding the toucan

The creepiest monkey ever-the Sacred Papion

Beautiful lionness

Their petting zoo cracked me up! It was this huge space with little goats and pigs, but also with turtles and guinea pigs running around!

A cute little goat

A one month old jaguar cub

The keeper showing me how tame his cats are-this is a 4 month old. Check out those teeth!

One of the highlights of my trip: holding a one month old baby jaguar. Isn't he precious? He was licking my arm here...

Me & the baby

He then found my shoe and sunk claws and teeth in and wouldn't let go!

Apparently it was time for him to eat! You can see other babies behind-tigers and spotted jags.

The 4 month old awake-you can see its' spots in the sunlight. Even black jaguars have spots!

Giant spiders-everywhere

A cute green parrot

Rick and our friend, Mr. Oso Negro (blackbear). Its hard to see, but he had his arms around the bars and just reminded us of a circus bear. We loved that cute bear!

Isn't he pretty?

He gently took the carrot, then decided he didn't want it, so he handed it back through the bars. What a nice bear!

My tourist pic with Oso Negro

A funny tiger

And finally, the strangest exhibit we saw at the zoo: 4 orange housecats behind glass.

I hope you liked our zoo pics! More to come :)