Today started with a scenic bus ride through the beautiful rainforest
region of Ecuador in order to get our study group to the Amazon. After
traveling for half a day, we finally arrived at the river and packed our gear
into rustic wooden boats that would take us to our final destinations of the
day - the Animal Rescue Center then the Jungle Lodge. Volunteers work at this center to rehabilitate endangered
animals that have been rescued from deforested land or animal trafficking and
try to incorporate them back into the wild. Our tour guide Thomas had
worked on the land for 10 weeks and had only released several animals who were
ready to be incorporated into the wild. On our tour we saw some amazing
creatures who loved the attention from our group. We saw spider monkeys,
squirrel monkeys, a peccary, toucans, parrots, a cayman, a capybara (the
world's largest rodent), and a trumpeter followed us around all afternoon on
our tour. Here are some pictures of the curious creatures...
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