Jaguar Rescue Center

Me and the woodpecker

Today we woke up early because today we start volunteering for the Jaguar Rescue  Center.  It’s about a 20 minute walk from our house. When we got there we met the main volunteer coordinator and leader named Nadja.  She introduced us to everyone and all the animals.  We got to go on the official tour with all the tourists so we knew how to get around and got to go in the monkey cage and play with the monkeys. Some of the animals there are: three toucans, a baby ocelot (which is like a jaguar),  a margay (also like  a jaguar!), and lots of sloths.  There is also a monkey cage with at least 20 monkeys in it.  They are mostly all howler monkeys but there is one that is a spider monkey.  She is really naughty! There is also a greater grisson (which is like a weasel) and a kinkajou that is blind, two deers, two parrots (one that talks and one named Wizard ), a woodpecker, two porcupines, a squirrel, an alligator, a hawk, an owl, an opossum, lots and lots of snakes, some spiders, and three wild sloths that live in a loft above the monkeys. After our tour we collected banana spiders in empty goat's milk cans and took them off the property. Then we fed the toucans, and then since it had already been 8 hours we went home and played with Heiner!