Lots of sheep. Here's a museum display related to preparing the fleece to spin for wool. In Colonia de Sacramento, Uruguay.
Alcito on a school field trip at the Museo del Mar (Ocean Museum) in Punte del Este, Uruguay. We went with the students from Maestra Ana's school.
This PEZ LUNA was on display at the Museo del Mar. It's a HUGE fish. Do you see Alcito in the photo? He's on the bottom right, behind the description of this Moon Fish.
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One student at Escuela Nº 72, the rural school we visited in Calera del Rey, Maldonado, rides his horse to school everyday. His horse stays in the field during the school day.
Hornero birds are very common in Uruguay. Their nest is made of mud and it looks like an old-fashioned oven. El horno is the Spanish word for the oven. Thsi bird's name, hornero, is derived from their nest.
In two of the photos below, you can see an Hornero pair in a nest they built on a statue of Artigas in a plaza in Punte del Este. In the third photo, there is an hornero nest atop a sign post in the Nature Reserve that is right next to Maestra Ana's school. (in Solís)
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The snake in these photos is called a Víbora de la Cruz, Snake of the Cross. This preserved víbora is on display at the Reserva Indígena in Solís, a 5 minute walk from Maestra Ana's school.
This snake has its name because the pattern on its head looks like a cross and on its body, the pattern looks like the letter "C". The guide talked about this snake at the beginning of our tour to remind students that it's a venomous (it's a pit viper snake) so they should be careful. It was winter (July in the southern hemisphere) and the guide said that they are hibernating so rarely so you see them during this season.
Alcito thought this snake was cool!
During another school field trip in July 2013, I saw this mass of moving worms on the grounds of the Sculpture Park of the famous Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry.
They moved forward very slowly, all as a group, and they were so interesting. The mass was about 8-10 inches long with the larvae all piled up on top of one another.
I asked my daughter about these (she's an insect / cool bug aficionado) and she discovered this about them:
"Based on descriptions online, my guess is Perreyia lepida or Perreyia
flavipes for the species. Either way, they're toxic to livestock,
causing illness and/or death when ingested.
Apparently the reason they form big masses like the one you saw is to
move faster ("think of the bottom caterpillars as an airport moving
walkway for the ones on top")! Here's a neat youtube video someone
made to explain the phenomenon."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbFMkXTMucA
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