We spent our last day in Lima at the Lima Zoo.
Generally speaking, I don’t like visiting zoos, but I was curious to see what a zoo in Peru would look like, how the animals were kept and if there was any great difference between the hemispheres.
Beginning with the implicit assumption that non-domesticated captive animals are a bad thing, the zoo was pretty middle-of-the-road. Some habitats were better than others, but its nothing like a roadside-attraction zoo. I’m sure there are many examples here in Canada of animals kept in worse conditions.
They did have some domestic animals on display (Peruvian hairless dogs for one–I wonder if it is the only zoo that has Canis lupus familiaris on display) including some Water Buffalo.
