After our amazing visits to Tsukudo and Moholoholo we made a quick stop to the Swadini Reptile Park. This was a strange little place with many strange little reptiles. It wasn’t crowded and the attendents were happy to hang out with us and describe everything we saw. The owner of the facility, Donald, also happend to be there and he allowed us to hold an amazing python. Natalie was thrilled. For some reason, which Edie can’t fathom, Natalie loves snakes.
For some reason they had a few sad looking spider monkeys, just hanging out. We never got their story. We did get the story on the unusual weaver birds. The males spend days building elaborate hanging nests. The females later come to inspect. If she doesn’tlike it, she cuts the nest down and the male has to start from scratch. The ground beneath the nests we saw was littered with such failed attempts at homes. Besides this, lots of snakes behind glass.
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