My time at the Monteverde Butterfly Gardens!

  My time at the Jaguar Rescue Center! I should start this blog with the revelation that there are in fact, no jaguars at the rescue center! The name has its origins in the beginings of the center, where an ocelot was confused as a jaguar by the locals, and word got around and everything started saying it was a jaguar going to the center, and the name stuck! I spent one month at JRC, and worked very closely with some of the animals, such as: Macaws (Scarlett and Green), howler and capuchin monkeys, sloths (two-toed), parrots, small birds, deer). The best experience regaridng the animal care was working with the howler and capuchin monkeys. The juvenile howlers would be taken to the jungle on sunny days for half the day, and we were tasked with taking them (on ourselves) to the jungle and observing their behaviour in the wild, with each other and other wild monkeys! Some tasks had animal specific duties. Such as a deer called Momo who cannot swallow her food properly due to being s...