We Have Snakes, Crocodiles, and now People-Eating Ants

The title makes it sound so scary. Really, it’s not that bad…yet. Rainy season is coming, waters rise (as you can see on the other blog about the river that appeared behind our place overnight) and apparently we get some extra wildlife with that. We will have to keep our grass cut, and, by the way, it grows like its on steroids, so that alligators don’t make little homes in them…or so that we can see them coming before they get to the sala. J As for the crocodiles, they are probably smaller and rarer than they sound.
Snakes…well, we’ve had a couple minor encounters, but I guess we could have some boa visits. A neighbor killed an anaconda at his place a couple weeks ago and came to us gringos to see if we wanted to buy it. We politely declined. I was never afraid of snakes…until now. Poison and the ability to swallow me whole play a role in my newfound fear.
For the ants, we have a little video. They don’t eat people, people like to eat them. Casey was catching them to feed to the monkeys and some of the girls and our grounds worker were telling us how delicious they were (only the butt part of the ant, not the whole thing). They fly and they are not tiny. One bit a girl and drew blood. Take a look.