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Hello people, I'm reporting from Panama and having a great time. The first place we went was Los Quetzales Lodge. The owner, Carlos, was really nice and when we got there, he showed us around and told us everything about the place. Carlos then took us to his barn, where there were ten little puppies. They were labs and they were absolutely adorable. They were only a month old and sooooooooo cute. It was fun because we got to hold and pet them. They would also bite your ankles because they were teething (but it didn't hurt).  

Hello everyone in cyberspace. We've left Costa Rica and are now in Panama, in another cloud forest. We stayed at the Los Quetzales Lodge. When we got there, we met the owner named Carlos, who told us about the place and took us to see ten Labrador puppies that were only one month old. He let us play with them as much as we wanted, which was great. Later we went up to our cabin, which was out deep into the cloud forest. To get there, we needed a four-wheel drive because the road was so bumpy and full of huge potholes. The cabin was really cool because it had a wrap-around porch you could go out on to watch for animals and birds.  

The next day, our guide Jonathan brought us out on a walk through the woods and we got to see plants, waterfalls, and birds. That night, we put some bananas out on the feeders and we got to see a few mammals we had never seen before--the cacomistles and kinkajous, when they came to feed. A cacomistle looks like a little tree raccoon and a kinkajou is unique. Not only did the kinkajou eat all the bananas off two feeders, as it that wasn't enough, it then drank everything from the hummingbird feeders!

Hello everybody. I was just at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. At CCF, their job is to take in injured or orphaned cheetahs and bring them back to health. Sometimes the cheetahs have problems, like not being able to hunt, so CCF has to keep them for their entire lives, or give them to a zoo. Right now they have 50 cheetahs that live there. They also educate farmers about co-existing with the cheetahs, so that more cheetahs can live safely in the wild.

On our first day at CCF, we met Bruce (the general manager of CCF), who took us to feed their three five-month-old cheetah cubs, named Phoenix, Seria, and Quasar. They were like adorable little housecat-sized cheetahs. We got to feed them by putting a little piece of meat in our palm and they would come and eat it off our hand. We even got to pet them. It felt really amazing to be with baby cheetahs, because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even though they've been raised by hand since they were three days old, you can really tell that they are still wild, so petting them was really exciting.

Hello out there! I just came from Namibia where we went to the Cheetah Conservation Fund--CCF for short. At CCF, they take care of cheetahs when they can't survive in the wild, like if they are orphaned as babies and haven't been taught how to hunt by their mother. They also breed Anatolian herding dogs, which they give to farmers to protect their cattle. The dogs are trained to scare cheetahs away by barking at them real loud. They grow up to be really huge dogs. Since the dog scares away the cheetahs, the farmers don't shoot them. So that's the purpose of CCF ... protecting the cheetahs.

When we arrived, we met three five-month old baby cheetahs. Their names were Quasar (the leader), Seria (the only girl in the group), and Phoenix (the independent one). We even got to feed them little chunks of meat. When they would eat it, there would be a little juice on our hands, so they would lick it off. Cheetahs' tongues feel like sandpaper and it tickles a lot. Whenever we got to see and feed the baby cheetahs we called it "cubby time." And we were really lucky because we had cubby time every day we were there, which was super fun.