Did anyone watch Lost Land of the Jaguar, on BBC1 last night? Tremendous stuff, with howler monkeys and piranhas and even a jaguar. I snapped this capybara at Marwell Zoo, to give this post the right sort of South American flavour...
I love lemurs - they're only found in Madagascar and the surrounding islands, and there are several different species. They're primates - like monkeys, apes and us. The Cotswold Wildlife Park has recently opened its Madagascar exhibit, where you can walk through a planted area full of Madagascan birds and lemurs. It's absolutely delightful - I took this photograph there, and I would like to recommend it to everyone. http://www.cotswoldwildlifepark.co.uk/park/madagascar/index.php
The Hay-on-Wye Festival is a treat for all book lovers, although the weather this year was absoutley frightful, and the car park was a mud wallow. This is me signing autographs with Penny Dolan, whose latest book The Third Elephant, published in 2007, is all about a little wooden elephant who follows his dream... to India!
