Alturas Wildlife Sancuary visit

Today we went over to the Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary.  They are amazing with rehab animals.  They get in hurt animals or confiscated pet trade animals or well anything that isn't suitable for just tossing back in the forest.  We got to see the veterinary clinic there and it is top notch, with capabilities to do everything from disease testing to literally putting in metal pins to set broken bones.  Every animal they get goes through a very rigorous process to fix it up and get it back to rights and then release it back into the wild in an appropriate area and in an appropriate way.  And this process is way too complicated to cover here, but they currently have some pretty neat animals so wanted to put up some photos.

A variety of parrots and macaws end up at the sancutary

Monkeys are notoriously hard to release, as they are tribal and a new arrival may not be accepted.  This spider monkey is probably at the sanctuary for the rest of its life.

Spider monkey at Alturas Wildlife Sanctuary

This female white-faced capuchin has a chance at a wild release, which would be fantastic.

White-faced capuchin with a maybe chance of release

One amazing couple the sanctuary is this brocket deer and an agouti.  There is a story behind that includes the poaching of the deer's mom and then the baby deer being confiscated by the authorities and taken to the sanctuary.  The agouti was a young one as well and bonded on the deer.  Now they are inseparable.  When we walked by the agouti was sleeping on the back of the deer but they woke up.  Totally cute couple in a very odd relationship.

A bonded pair of a brocket deer and an agouti. Probably an easy release for either of them but they are inseparable so complicated

Another ball of cuteness they had was a collared peccary only about a month old.

Collared peccary waiting to get old enough for a release

There is a really nice resort situated at Alturas, and got a chance to check out the view from the tourist area and pool.  Would certainly not be a bad place to take some vacation time.

​http://villasalturas.com/

View from Villas Alturas