{"id":211,"date":"2005-05-10T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T22:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2005-11-27T08:19:27","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T15:19:27","slug":"explore-nature-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/explore-nature-in-mexico.html","title":{"rendered":"Explore nature in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/africa-lizard.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Africa lizard\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<table cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"125\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gecko-feet.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gecko feet\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Interested in exploring some of the animals and plants in Mexico?<\/b> &nbsp;Here&#8217;s a great place to start &#8211; these guys have photos, video and sounds of the life in Mexico. &nbsp;You can see it all at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanatura.org\">VN Illustrated Database<\/a>. &nbsp;You might even learn something. &nbsp;For example, did you know that there are more species of lizard in Mexico than in any country of the world? &nbsp;At last count there were well over 720 different species discovered. &nbsp;And you thought a gecko was a gecko was a gecko! &nbsp;The world has more than 300 species of gecko alone.<\/p>\n<p>For all you sticklers, the lizard on the mouse above is from Africa, not Mexico. &nbsp;But if I ever see one on my mouse in Mexico, I&#8217;ll try to grab the camera just for you! &nbsp;The other photo shows front and back gecko feet.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting feature of the site is a section with photos of animals that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanatura.org\/ID.html\">haven&#8217;t been identified yet<\/a>. &nbsp;Very interesting. &nbsp;Makes you really feel like you&#8217;re exploring! &nbsp;God made more under the sun than we&#8217;ve yet imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in exploring some of the animals and plants in Mexico? &nbsp;Here&#8217;s a great place to start &#8211; these guys have photos, video and sounds of the life in Mexico. &nbsp;You can see it all at the VN Illustrated Database. &nbsp;You might even learn something. &nbsp;For example, did you know that there are more species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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