Wild animals will be wild.

Meet Johnny
Blue Macaw
The new addition
After a good weekend of rest, reading and getting some very muddy clothes washed it was back to the centre. The week has flown by and although I have aches, pains and bruises it was an easier week and I feel I must be getting fitter. This week one of the capachin monkeys escaped, twice, one of the peccaries gave birth, the parrots continued to practice their flight, and failed, the squirrel monkeys continued to be very cheeky, and not satisfied with the fruit from the fruit shed started to steal the fruit from the free birds, we went night walking through the jungle and frog spotting at the pond, and a volunteer got attacked, on mass, by a group of capachins. She was okay but may have the odd monkey bite scar to show off at parties. We continued to do jobs around the centre, including path mending, bamboo chopping, cage building and lots of lifting and carrying. I got a trip into Puyo to assist with the weeks shopping, both for the animals and the humans, with far more being spent on the animals - okay, so there are more of them but they are only small! And we had a first English evening for the local community. 17 people turned up from various ages and differing levels of English ability, and after a game of football, in which the volunteers got thrashed, we spent an hour on greetings in English. It was great fun and a good start to both the locals learning some English and a good way to allow the centre to be fully integrated into the community.