This is a great little wildlife rescue center just about 10 minutes away from Tree Houses. It's run by Alvoro and his father. They have about eight acres, and they take in animals that belong in the wild, but were taken by folks as pets, then given up when they couldn't handle them. A lot of times, the animals don't have the social skills to survive in the wild, so Alvoro keeps them at the center and uses them for educational purposes. He gets a lot of school kids on field trips, and he tells them about the pitfalls of taking wild animals home. The pecarys are like wild pigs and man, oh man, do they give off a stench! There are three pecarys, two in one pen and one in another. They have to keep them separated, as the male in the pen with two of them gets amorous and wants to hook up with the female, who's in her own pen. She doesn't appreciate the advances and there's usually trouble, so they figured it's better to keep them apart.
The kinkajous were rescued from the wild. The alpha male of the group (herd? tribe? pod? gaggle?) ran these two out of the tree they were living in. You can see the bite and claw marks left by the alpha male on the two kinkajous that they have at the center. Kinkajous look like monkeys and have a long tail, but are more closely related to the raccoon family. They're pretty much creatures of the night and just lay around and relax during the day. They have incredibly long tongues. I'm guessing this is for getting insects and what-not out of trees for food.
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