Animal Selfies

Selfie.

The word didn't exist a decade ago, and now I bet its in the dictionary.

Something about taking the picture yourself just makes it a different kind of photo. There's a time to hand your camera to a passerby to snap a frame, and there's a time to have a too close, badly framed, crazy selfie that captures the moment.

Here's all the moments I captured with non-humans.

Starting off with one of the Machu Picchu llamas.

Giant prehistoric fossil ground sloth

Little tiny flamingos

My favorite statue. I think it's supposed to be an eagle with a snake, but I thought it looked more penguin-ish

There's a lionfish in this photo, I promise. I just didn't want to get my head too close to it, with it's poison spines and all.

Christmastime reindeer

This was the burning effigy at New Years. Since he at one point had a face, I figure it counts.

Rescue pup at Kingbird

Pina the macaw

One of the many lizards around Chichen Itza

This was my favorite floaty toy ever, a big blue hippo

Crazy shrimp statue in Costa Rica

Coati friend

Speaks for itself.

This was after he stole my glasses off my face

What are you looking at...

First animal selfie in Peru, with one of the pacaranas

Failed train selfie going in

Better train selfie walking out

Baby llama!

Adult llama

Surprise llama!

Morante, Fernando's horse

I also discovered a bunch of things that I rode. Not enough for a whole post, but here you go.

Day 1 in Lima

What else to do in a kids park? I went early morning before catching my bus specially to take this photo. I had to wait my turn because a small child was using it...

Way back in a dead-end

At the Cali Zoo

Also the Cali zoo. Photobombing crazy lizard sign in the background gets extra points.