The animals

Cheeky squirrel monkey stealing from the fruit shed
Whose a pretty boy then.
Most of the animals have been rescued, either from people or places that have been keeping them as pets, or from a circus or from people just coming across an animal and bringing it to the centre. As most of the animals have been at the centre for quite a while they are all now in pretty good health, though that wasn´t always the case and some of the animals had been very badly mistreated. Some of the parrots cannot fly so they are left out of cages and keep practicing their flying skills - not yet very successfully as they keep crashing to the floor and we have to go and assist them back to their tree with stick. The woolly monkey cannot be released as he would normally live with other monkeys so he is currenlty very lonely. You can go down to his cage and he will stick out his arms to be tickled/groomed and then a leg and then both and then lick your fingers. He is very cute but it is sad to see him alone. Some of the other monkeys are too aggresive to go into their cage but others will either leave you alone entirely or will jump on your back and try grooming your hair. Quite a shock when it first happens but rather funny, though we are not supposed to allow them to do it as they should not get used to humans. The centre is supported by the local family that owns the land and they are very spportive of the work that the centre is doing and hopefully, over time, people will start to understand that the animals should remain in the wild.