Mostly some of the young woolly monkeys are hanging around at the souvenir shop and are attracting the tourists. Congo, a young woolly monkey, is quite a lot of puppy fat and is oft called affectionetely "the soccer ball". Olga and Samson, also young woollies, are more in the background, in the contrary of Ivan, who prefers to jump down from a tree on top of the volunteers and rarely tries this with tourists as well. But this is not the idea. We want the animals not to get used to humans at all, and try to teach them not climb unto tourists. It may look cute to have such a monkey sitting on the shoulder, but despite all this they are wild animals, that can tear your hair or even bite, if you do not behave correctly. Often the young spider monkeys are also found climbing around the "Veterinair-house" and distracting the visitors from looking at other enclosures.

In the first enclosure are the Toucans. Two Arasaris, originally from the coast, have been brought together with many other animals from a zoo in Ibarra, that has been closed down, as they kept the animals under lousy conditions. As these Arasaris (small species of Toucan) look similar to ones at the Oriente, they accidentally arrived at the amaZOOnico. As they are not from this area, they can not be released. And then there is Sam the white-throated Toucan. The "mister" knows, that he is beautiful and he behaves like it. As he is annoying everything and everyone, he can not be outside. Should he try to annoy one of the taller monkeys, it would look bad for him. The toucans are not really shy, especially Sam always tries to pick on the volunteers who come in to feed. This shows us why he would not be able to survive outside, he would be a easy catch for an ocelot or a hunter.

Now we can finally start. First you'll get to a big bird cage. Different parrots are living there: Two big scarlet macaws, blue headed parrots, amazons (very skilled in speaking) and two blackheaded parrots. Also there is a guan (Pava del Monte) living inside, a big bird similar to a turkey. It is not possible to release the parrots, as they got too much use to humans. They would fly straight back to people. And in the case of the protected macaws, it would be easy to catch them and sell them again illegally.

Further on, we're passing the empty tapir enclosure (rumours say, there are baby caimans living there in the water...) the next cage is also a big birdcage. There are other parrots living inside, like a greenwinged macaw, a blue and yellow macaw, cobaltwinged parakeets, various amazons and a small arasari from the oriente. Often you really have to look for it in the cage, as it is well hidden. If you're lucky and the amazons are in the right mood, you can hear them chatting, words like "Hola", "Hasta luego" and even "cerveza, dos cervezas"... Sometimes the amazons come straight to the wire of the cage to say "Hola" to the visitors .

Now we continue to Felina. The jaguarundi has been living for quite a while in a much better enclosure and seems to like it there. The small ‘weaslecat’ is very curious and comes often closer, to have a look who there.
In the big cage behind are Johann and Othello, two adult male spider monkeys . As mainly Johann had started to attack other monkeys (and has a howler monkey on his conscience) he had to be put in a cage. Hank, a paca, is also living in this cage. He spends most of his time in his trunk and is only rarely out.
Just beside, are living the the collared peccaries. Peccaries are making good use of waste. They eat all the left-overs (mostly from Liana Lodge) but mostly love yukka (manioc). As they are living in quite a wide enclosure, you may not always meet them on a tour.

Varying to time and interest of the visitors you can make a small detour to see the agoutis and the kinkajous. Agoutis are large shy rodents. The kinkajous are mostly sleeping curled up together in they trunks, as they are nocturnal animals.
Now we go on through the rainforest to the caiman and the turtles. It is most impressing, when the turtles are taking a sun bath on a log and also the caiman is laying on the beach to heat up. But you never know. Very often, the caiman is absent and the turtles are not in the mood to pose.

The last enclosure is the one that is furthest, but it is well worth the way: It is the home of the three young ocelots Pablo, Paloma and Hobbs, the darkest. It is hard to believe, that there are people who have these as pets in the middle of Quito(!). The shy animals are hunted because of their fur, but also often shot because they steal the chicks from the Quichuas.

Now we go the whole way back to the souvenir shop. Returning you can often see the small squirrelmonkeys playing and climbing in the trees, searching for insects. Just beside the shop there is the enclosure for the boas. Very often they are kind of intertwined so you can’t really tell there are two snakes. Every now and then one of the snakes is taken out and who dares, may touch it or hold it. And sometimes the coatis appear as well, sniffing around the food tables and looking for left-overs, mostly there is still more than enough for them.