| August
10, 2007 It's been quite a long time since I've written. We have been very busy, and still are, due to our cappuchin monkeys . . . they found out how to open the butterfly cage's net. So for the last six months, what Robler, me and our workers have been doing (besides looking after the animals, butterfly breeding and tourists) was fixing the holes our monkeys made.When they get into the flight area, they eat eggs, caterpillars, crysalids, butterflys, fruits, shootings of host plants etc. So we had to buy an iron mesh, and since the beginning of June we are trying to cover the whole flight area with that mesh.It's a difficult job and costs a lot of money. We we have a few new arrivals, and only now can I send you some pictures of some of them. On May 1st we got another red Uacary—he was left by a little girl from a nearby village. Her father had brought the monkey from his hunting trip, and they had tried to raise it with "masato," which is a kind of beer made from yucca/manioc. When the monkey arrived he had a terrible diarrea and several types of parasites, but fortunately he's doing fine now, as you can see from the photo. Besides there's a little squirrel, which was easy to reintroduce into the wild, and a picture of a pretty vine snake we found in front of our house. The two images of the boa constrictor show the animal that was given to us by the institute of natural ressources. It had been confiscated by the police in Iquitos because a Canadian tourist had been walking around in town with the snake, trying to frighten people with sticking the poor snake into their faces. We don't have to keep the animals in custody, so after a few days of keeping it in my kitchen where it ate quite a few mice, we released it yesterday morning on our land. All our animals are fine; we also have another newcomer,a squirrel monkey, who was left by a tourist—his name is Luigi and he's very funny —and so fast that I still haven't got a good picture of him.He's been with us for about three months. Best wishes and love from all of us, Gudrun  |
Amazon Animal Orphanage
Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm
www.AmazonAnimalOrphanage.org
pilpintuwasi@hotmail.com
063-23-2665
Padre Cocha
Iquitos, Peru