Wildlife Learning Center --- a great place to see some coatimundi among other rescued "exotic" pets!

I highly recommend this nonprofit educational wildlife center as a fairly accessible and yet very different from and more intimate than LA Zoo.  If your child is fascinated by cars, do remember to stop by at the Nethercutt museum about 5 minutes' drive away.

We have been to Sylmar's Wildlife Learning Center once before and we would love to go again soon.

We have never seen some of the animals before!  We were stunned at how fast-moving an African tortoise can be, how beautiful a Siberian lynx is, and we were able to see up close porcupines, a sloth, a red-tailed hawk, squirrel monkeys, porcupines, and, for the first time, not one but 4 or 5 black coatimundi ...

There are lots of educational information about each animal.    For an  extra fee, you can also ask to hold and touch an animal up close for the whole group ... so you could also do this for your entire group for the same fee.   Remember that these are mostly confiscated illegal pet rescues.

Somewhere I have photos of all the animals in this place somewhere from our last visit, but the prairie dogs are new to the exhibit and so we are looking forward to coming back soon and blog on the specific animal experiences we will have.  See the videos below for some of the animals we looked at.

If you act quickly, here's an admission for two persons for $6 and this link expires in about 24 hours:

http://gr.pn/jvYIkU


Their address is:
16027 Yarnell Street
CA 91342-1011
(818) 362-8711

http://www.wildlifelearningfoundation.org/

For some videos:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1985369443422&oid=131956630202944&comments  
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2062779338621&oid=131956630202944&comments

To learn more about coatimundi,
http://www.vanishingspecies.net/animals/details.php/000029/Coatimundi/Nasua/nasua