Caracals, Tigrillos y Pandas, Oh My!

Started exploring the Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City’s Central Park, by spending a couple of hours at the zoo, Zoológico de Chapultepec, which apparently is one of the few places outside of Asia that has successfully bred giant pandas:

We saw a couple of new (to us) animals — the caracal, with its crazy tufted ears:

. . . and the tigrillo, which looks exactly like a cross between a leopard and a housecat:

Also never seen a capybara IRL:

Panda!

And even the animals in Mexico City know what to do should an earthquake occur:

Bosque de Chapultepec is alternately epic, lovely and scrappy — a tough thing for a park to pull off (and that’s only scratching the surface of part one — the 1600-acre park has three distinct sections):