{"id":1371,"date":"2012-11-28T09:51:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:51:45","slug":"raining-cats-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/11\/28\/raining-cats-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Raining Cats &amp; Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tenikwa Center turned out to be a flop. Even though the pictures used for advertisement purposes showed people getting up close and personal with the cats, we were never allowed to touch them. Our guide was asked the question \u201cWhere are cheetahs found in South Africa?\u201d and couldn\u2019t answer. They didn\u2019t even have any black-footed cats, which are so cute! They did have marabou storks, meerkats, blue cranes, ducks, cheetahs, a leopard, caracals, African wild cats, and servals.<\/p>\n<p>At Birds of Eden, we saw not only of the many types of birds but also the golden-handed tamarins, a primate species native to South and Central America, and a blue duiker, a tiny antelope that has been known to eat rodents. My favorite bird was probably the Galah cockatoo, which was our first and last bird sighting. It was the same one and hung out around the door area.<\/p>\n<p>We then went on a hike to see another <em>groot boom<\/em> (big tree)in the forest. After that we returned to Knysna exhausted, esurient, and dying for a Cadbury bar.<\/p>\n<p>Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tenikwa Center turned out to be a flop. Even though the pictures used for advertisement purposes showed people getting up close and personal with the cats, we were never allowed to touch them. Our guide was asked the question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/2012\/11\/28\/raining-cats-birds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[154,231,167,140],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eryn-slug","tag-disappointments","tag-eryn-slug","tag-knysna","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtw4four.com\/RTW4Four\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}