Meet Andrea, the tiny little coati that came in a few days ago. Everyone’s voice went about 10 octaves higher when they saw her. I don’t know how she was found, but she had been chewing on the end of […]
Category: Jaguar Rescue Center
Put Down Your (Electronic) Pencils
Ok, no hate mail on this one please. Dante has a skin infection and had been stuck in her cage for a while. Bummer. Got her outside but she’s notorious for just wanting to lay around and cuddle. I mean, […]
Pungulino the Pine
I decided the other day that I wanted to do some enrichment programs for some of the animals that are never let out of their cages. This means finding something to keep them occupied and entertained and changing those […]
Other Residents at JRC
I took some time this morning to do some videos of the other residents at the center today. You’ve seen the sloths and monkeys, but may not have known about some of the others. So the link to my youtube […]
Baby Bats!
Someone brought in a dead mama bat with two babies, I assume attached to her. Wow…I’ve never seen bats this tiny before. And to try to feed them!?! Piccio got a small syringe filled with milk and they actually did […]
Little Fernando
I got some heartbreaking news when I went into work this morning that little Fernando had passed away last night. This was very unexpected for a lot of us who had no idea he had been sick the past couple […]
Just Some Ramblings
Well, it’s my day off and wouldn’t you know it….it’s raining and hasn’t stopped. I planned on going into town to get a lot done. The sky is actually starting to lighten up a bit but still raining. You just […]
Crashed Out Creatures
I got to spend time in the sloth garden the other day. It’s an enclosed space with some low hibiscus trees and ropes where the two toed sloths, a bird and the kinkajou can hang out. I needed that. It […]
Monkey Business
Today I got to work in the monkey enclosure while the tourists came in. I was in there for about three hours. These were all babies, as the adults get to go out to the forest pretty much all day. […]
More on Animals…
I forgot to mention something about the sloth. Since I wasn’t allowed to touch him, I had to pick him up with a blanket when I needed to get him off the ground. So I would put the blanket in […]