El Parque De Monos
Tuesday
December 19, 2007
It is our fifth day in Costa Rica and our third day of Spanish classes at CPI. For part of our morning session we went to an animal rehabilitation park about twenty minutes from the school. It is called El Parque de Monos, which translates to The Monkey Park.
Although the park was not much to look at, it was a very interesting trip. The guide, who was from Venezuela, was very knowledgeable and passionate about his work. He is a volunteer as is everyone who works at the park and their main objective is to rescue animals and release them back to the wild.
Most of the animals that we saw are permanent residents because they would not be able to survive back in the wild for one reason or another. But many of the animals do get released back to the wild.
While we were there we saw fur types of monkeys, several exotic birds, crocodiles, wild pigs and the Costa Rican version of a raccoon. This last critter has been released several times on the large reserve and keeps coming back. They let him just roam around for a bit on the grounds but he kept coming up to the tourists and growling at them. Apparently he is quite friendly but can be scary if he shows up behind you growling. So they have him back in the cage.
Tuesday
December 19, 2007
It is our fifth day in Costa Rica and our third day of Spanish classes at CPI. For part of our morning session we went to an animal rehabilitation park about twenty minutes from the school. It is called El Parque de Monos, which translates to The Monkey Park.
Although the park was not much to look at, it was a very interesting trip. The guide, who was from Venezuela, was very knowledgeable and passionate about his work. He is a volunteer as is everyone who works at the park and their main objective is to rescue animals and release them back to the wild.
Most of the animals that we saw are permanent residents because they would not be able to survive back in the wild for one reason or another. But many of the animals do get released back to the wild.
While we were there we saw fur types of monkeys, several exotic birds, crocodiles, wild pigs and the Costa Rican version of a raccoon. This last critter has been released several times on the large reserve and keeps coming back. They let him just roam around for a bit on the grounds but he kept coming up to the tourists and growling at them. Apparently he is quite friendly but can be scary if he shows up behind you growling. So they have him back in the cage.
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