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26, 2006 I have a few new pictures of the animals and some of the butterflys so that any donors can choose their favorite animals. At Pilpintuwasi everybody is fine. We got another scarlet macaw last week. It flew against a friend's window in town, she couldn't find the owner, so she left it at our farm on Saturday. I've put a big boa constrictor into the empty monkey cage that's in the middle of the woods (the cage we have for the saddle back tamarinds). I found the boa just as it was killing one of our Agoutis. I couldn't save the Agouty, but I took it away from the snake and gave it to Pedro. The snake is about 2m long and as it could easily swallow one of our monkeys. I'm still not sure what to do with it, where to leave it, but I will send pictures in case anyone wants to see the Boa. Although I've been living in the Amazon over 24 years now, I still cannot get much of a Christmas feeling in that heat and sunshine. I still have Austrian Christmas time in my mind: long, dark and snowy evenings, baking cookies with my mother, etc., and it's very hard to get that cozy feeling when the sun is shining. I'd better get moving as I have to go to the slaughterhouse and get some beef for Pedro. Best wishes to you and your family and love from all of us. Gudrun
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Amazon Animal Orphanage
Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm
www.AmazonAnimalOrphanage.org
pilpintuwasi@hotmail.com
063-23-2665
Padre Cocha
Iquitos, Peru