Mandy's Menagerie- Special Edition Blog Post!
Hello mes amis! I'm sure you know by now that I'm in love with animals and you can probably guess that my fellow interns are pretty sick of me stopping them in the street every five seconds to look at a chicken, lizard, goat, etc. I even get distracted when I'm talking with prisoners because they have farm animals in the prison yard! The guards/my coworkers always laugh at me because I am constantly (and often, I might add, successfully) trying to pick up the little baby chickens at the prison. (Side note: in French, chickens are called “poulet” and chicks are called “poussin”)
Anyway, I thought I'd dedicate one of my blog posts to my much-loved animal friends.
Monsieur Le Crocodile:
I finally got a picture of Monsieur Le Crocodile in all his reptilian majesty. For some reason, The Mission decided to drain his pool a few days ago, so him and his roommate, the prehistoric gigantic turtle, were stranded on dry/muddy land :( Don't worry, he has water again now! But I did manage to take advantage of the opportunity to get some frighteningly close-up photographs of my handsome scaly-tailed boyfriend:
Bats bats bats
Next, I've been observing the bat colony in the back of the Mission. The locals don't like them very much but I think they're AWESOME.
I can't get very good pictures of them flying, even with my zoom lens, so here's one of them in the trees!
MONKEY!!
This is my pet monkey. The guys who “own” him call him Boo Boo, but my name for him is Mr. Knightley. He doesn't give a shit if he perpetuates stereotypes- he will eat all the bananas. He's hungry.
He's called a Campbell's Monkey, but he doesn't like labels.
Last, but not least... GECKOS
How cool are these guys? This one hangs out on the ceiling by the lights at night ready to nom nom nom on some tasty weird bug things.
OH WAIT one more! Adorable kitten. Because kittens are universally good.
