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The zoo itself has lots of land & some very nice enclosures, several islands with Adeles/ Cebus/ Sarmili / Nasua in a large man-made lake, lots of large bird enclosures & a couple of good caiman/ alligator enclosures. They have a family group of 6 Pteronura & have already sent some to Germany. Also breeding [[underlined]] Mazama americana [[/underlined]]. Other few mammals, especially South American, since altho they had planned to have only Brazilian fauna, they were pressured into bringing lions/giraffes and some other African wildlife. Really sad state is that the state govt just took a rundown favella in the zoo grounds & [[end page]] [[start page]] 4 March Tues. made it presentable so that there are 2000-2500 people living in favellas within the zoo grounds! Apparently they were caught killing & eating capybara, as well as some other zoo species. The "governor" of Brazilia decided on making the zoo habitable for people - a terrible decision: [[circled]] C [[/circled]] [[underlined]] Milton Thiago de Mello [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] met us at the zoo & dragged us, [[strikethrough]] unknown [[/strikethrough]] unknowingly to his primate center (his fazenda). Milton's primate center has 3 tiers of Coimbra-like cage with [[underlined]] Callithrix jacchus [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] C. penicillata [[/underlined]]. Narrow cages but OK for Callithrix unfortunately he'd had an outbreak of diarrhea the previous day & didn't know whether he had some disease or just bad mangoes. He has plans to build a