The next day we went to an animal rescue centre outside Puyo at a place called Fatima. It was hard to find and we got off the bus 1.5 kilometres too soon, but it was well worth the walk. This is the place to which the customs officers and police take animals when they are seized from illegal exporters and the like. Some of them are released into the wild and others just won't go away and live out their lives there. We were shown around by a Swiss girl who spoke very good English. She had been a volunteer at the centre for some months and was due to move on the very next day, so we were extremely lucky to find her there. The tame animals included two species of monkeys, the common capuchin and the highly endangered black lion tamarind (smaller than British squirrels), tapirs, coatis, capybaras (big rodents), parrots and a boa constrictor. Also there but less tame were caimans, turtles (of which they breed and release 300 a year) and frogs which breed there all the time. We had a very pleasant morning playing with the animals and got some great photographs. The monkeys loved human attention and would sit on visitors' shoulders and attempt to steal their lunch-boxes. The tapirs (a mother and daughter) were also extremely tame and there were more tame coatis like Pepe.