For the first time since I have been here, I felt the pain of being homesick. It is not severe and I expect that it will end soon with a goodnight´s rest and a warm Taricaya meal. Just know that if you miss me, I´m missing you, too!
Anyways, enough of that talk:) I had the cool experience of feeding our jaguar. I was amazed at all the precautions we had to take to feed the powerful (but still cute) animal. First, you have to slide this metal door down so she can´t attack you.... always a happy thought haha. Then you have to slide 4 metal bars out of the door to get in and set the pile of raw meat covered with unwanted wasps in the cage. Quite the experience!
I also was able to do turtle census. We ride on a boat for 2 hours looking for turtles on logs. We only saw three but it was delightful. I stuck my ipod in my ears and admired the amazon around me while searching hard for ¨Charlies¨... what I was calling the turtles thanks to Forest Gump hahaha
Some of the cutest animals we have here are the most vicious in my opinion. We have a margay which looks like a small jaguar house cat with huge eyes and we have 3 jaguarandi. They look so fluffy (so fluffy I could die!!!) and cuddly, but as soon as you get close they glare at you and hiss. I stuck my face next to the enclosure the jaguarandi were in in their cage and they lunged at me and hissed something fierce! Luckily, I was on the outside of their cage, but that didn´t keep be from yelping and jerking back haha.
Sadly I must cut this entry short because the boat leaves in 30 minutes. I love and miss everyone!
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