Take Your Class or Group on a Virtual Tour of the Belize Zoo! The Belize Zoo has recently announced the launch of a new educational experience for teachers and students abroad. Using the power of teleconferencing platforms, we are now able to bring the wonderful wildlife of Belize right into …
What is a Tapir? The Central American Tapir (Tapirus bairdii), also known as the Baird’s Tapir or Mountain cow, is the largest indigenous mammal in Central America. They superficially resemble large pigs, with mature adults weighing between 150 – 300 kg (330 – 660 pounds). The body length ranges between …
Our Howler Monkey Friends! What’s that sound? If you are visiting the Belize Zoo and hear an almost unnatural low guttural call, then you are probably not too far from the home of one of our favorite stops in the Zoo – the howler monkeys. Black howler monkeys are the …
The shut down in international travel caused by COVID-19 has disrupted economies around the globe, but none more so than destination travel countries like Belize. A small country in Central America, Belize’s economy is based on tourism, especially visitors from the United States who come to explore the country’s coral …
At little larger than the size of a house cat – and often mistaken for its larger, and more common, ocelot cousins – the margay is a rare site in the rainforests of Belize. Nocturnal, and spending most of their time in the trees of dense evergreen and deciduous forests, …
Looking like a cross between a house cat and a weasel is the jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi), one of the smallest – and least studied – of Belize’s wild cats. While big cats, such as the jaguars and pumas, often steal the spotlight from their smaller feline cousins, these often-overlooked cats …
Mountain Lion, Catamount, Florida Panther, Cougar – across the Americas, from Canada to the tip of Argentina, these several names have each referred to the same animal: Puma concular, or puma. Often incorrectly thought of as exclusive to the mountains of North America, the puma in fact also prowls the …
Once, Jaguars (Panthera onca) roamed thousands of miles of territory, from Argentina to Arizona and even Colorado. Today, their range is a fraction of what it once was. Over the past few decades, the largest Big Cat in the Americas has become locally extinct in Uruguay, El Salvador, and the …
