Monday, February 18, 2013

Amazon animal rescue center

On our first day in Ecuador, we went to the jungle in the Amazon. Our first stop was the Animal Rescue Center. This organization rescues animals that need help. Some animals are rescued at the airport as they are being smuggled out of the country. One tiger was found abandoned in a hotel room! Other animals were found abandoned after their mother had died. Some of these animals end up being released back into their natural habitat and others end up staying at the rescue center.

 

Some of the monkeys we saw were just on the grounds, but they weren't members of the rescue center.

 

 

 

This is an ocelot just hanging in a tree.

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