Jaguar Rescue Center
Kategori: Allmänt
We heard about an animal rescue centre just outside of town so we woke up early, hired some push bikes and rode about 45 mins along a beautiful beach road until we found the Jaguar Rescue Centre. It was founded by two Dutch biologists who were sent to Costa Rica for research having never met each other, they fell in love and stayed forever setting up the rescue centre. Their first animal was a baby jaguar hence the name... It's completely non profit and run by volunteers. This silly Toucan flew into a tree breaking his wing and beak so now when he eats bugs they crawl out of his nose...
Cheeky Molly likes to talk to passers by and thought my finger looked like a fatty worm.
Påågy's new boyfriend! Though she couldn't snuggle him because sloths skin is very sensitive and they will almost cirtainly die from an infection after contact with humans. When being cared for they can only be handled by their fingers and toes. It's important they learn not to stay close to the ground or walk around as the local dogs often kill them.
This little dude was checking me out. These are 3 toed sloths and have a permanent smile on their faces!
This white tailed deer has been a guest since birth and loves to lick sweaty people :)
The centre has many birds who were kept as pets and then the owners released them but the bird couldn't survive in the wild as they never learnt to hunt. They are currently teaching a group of owls that mice are actually dinner not play friends...
A big fat dung beetle the size of Påågy's hand...
It's very sad that people keep hawks like this as pets and clip their wings so that they don't fly away. When they get sick of them they just let them go and the birds die. Some are lucky enough to be found and brought to the rescue centre.
A local tree that no monkeys or raccoons can climb only sloths as they have very long toe nails. It's one of the safest trees for them to climb. The local tribes used to use these spikes and the poison from frogs to make darts for their blow guns.
We couldn't take any photos of the baby howler and spider monkeys as they love to take cameras and see what's inside them! though we did get to play and cuddle with them. One howler monkey loved to sit on my head :) most of the monkeys were confiscated at border crossing on their way to be sold on the black market.
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