Baboon Sanctuary

Trip Start Jan 01, 2001
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

This morning we drove to Bermudan Landing and the area of the Baboon sanctuary. This is really an area for Howler Monkeys, but in Creole they are called Baboons. There is a small museum on the site which tells us all about the rainforest as well as the problems for both the forest itself and all the animals that inhabit it. Apparently the Black Howler monkeys are found only in this area of Central America and are an endangered species. There are several other types of Howler monkey spread throughout Central and lots of South America. After a look around the museum we went for a walk with a guide to see the family of wild monkeys that live in the area. There are presently six in this locale, although they estimate there are 20,000 monkeys in the whole sanctuary. The six we saw was a family group with dad, his two wives plus one teenager and two babies, one of thirteen and one of sixteen months. The two babies in particular were very active throwing themselves from tree to tree and jumping on one another Monkey atBaboon Sanctuary
Monkey atBaboon Sanctuary
 . These two let us know what they thought of us, they both tried to pee on us at different times, luckily for Mike he escaped but I got a bit splashed. After a while we saw dad lead the way and move to another area so they could all rest in the sun. In all it was worth the visit and we shall have another visit tomorrow morning. We are now parked up at the visitor centre for the night.
10th.-We listened to the monkeys both last night and this morning, luckily we are about ½ a mile away from them so they did not wake us up. They tend to start howling about 5. 30 am. This morning we just had a slow start and walked down to the Belize river, although we did not see anything apart from birds. From here we went back into the Baboon sanctuary and spent a while watching the babies playing and listening to the big daddy howling. It was strange watching the babies because almost right alongside in the same tree was a large iguana. Whilst walking around we also managed to see an anteater, although not for long enough to film, this one was about 2ft 6" long and about 6 to 8" wide. We are staying at the sanctuary for one more night.
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