--- title: 'I Saved These Animals from Death' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=yKkRE8mrZko' video_id: 'yKkRE8mrZko' date: 2026-07-27 duration_sec: 1378 --- # I Saved These Animals from Death > Source: [I Saved These Animals from Death](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yKkRE8mrZko) ## Summary This transcript takes viewers behind the scenes of a wildlife rescue center in Colombia, documenting a day of treating injured and trafficked animals. From an Indian python to an orphaned sloth, the video reveals the harsh realities of animal trafficking and the dedicated efforts to save these creatures. ### Key Points - **Sloth Aggression and Infant Trafficking** [00:09] — Sloths are extremely aggressive when protecting their young. A baby sloth arrived with an umbilical cord attached, likely taken after its mother was killed by traffickers. - **Opossum Playing Dead** [00:28] — A juvenile opossum arrived, possibly playing dead as a defense mechanism. The team releases it after confirming it's healthy. - **Indian Python Morphometry** [03:32] — The team measures and weighs an Indian python (2.53 meters, 11.8 kg) using a standard procedure that serves as a well-being indicator for reptiles. - **Albinism in Snakes** [05:53] — The python is albino, with yellow coloring typical of this species. In snakes, males are smaller than females. - **Paujil Bird Wound Treatment** [08:32] — A paujil bird with severe fight wounds is treated with moisturizing and antiseptic creams. The vet also administers a feeding tube for supplemental nutrition. - **Environmental Enrichment Workshop** [12:33] — The team uses enrichments (e.g., tubes with food, ice cream for bears) to stimulate animals' natural behaviors, mimicking their wild foraging activities. - **Rescuing an Abandoned Vietnamese Pig** [14:44] — A 60 kg Vietnamese pig, abandoned after outgrowing its owner's expectations, is safely captured and loaded for relocation. - **Deer Fawns Sunbathing and Feeding** [17:14] — Two orphaned deer fawns (Cataleya and Violeta) are taken out for sunshine and bottle-feeding. Their white spots serve as camouflage by mimicking forest floor light patterns. - **Orphaned Sloth: A Tragedy of Trafficking** [19:43] — A two-day-old sloth arrives, likely orphaned after its mother was killed for trafficking. It lacks colostrum and faces high mortality risk but will receive intensive care. ### Conclusion The day at the rescue center highlights both the heartbreaking consequences of wildlife trafficking and the critical work of rehabilitation teams. The ultimate message is that while rescue stories are touching, prevention and habitat conservation are far more impactful. ## Transcript Sloths are extremely aggressive animals when they have a young. In other words, for a mother to have a baby removed that has a hubbilical cord attached, it is most likely that she has killed it. That's most likely. Ultimately, are not just rescue stories, they are an urgent call for prevention. Pay close attention. A juvenile opossum has just arrived, that is, a young opossum. It's unknown what's wrong with him. A man brought her in, and well, she might be run over, we don't know, but she might also be fine because it turns out play dead. So, she could have just gotten scared, she played dead and someone got scared because they didn't know that and well, they brought her. She seems examine her. The other person, wearing a more to avoid the risk of it biting someone. They already checked his teeth and they're fine. So, from that perspective, incredible. Look, I did n't know this. The tail seems to be pressed together and look, it's responding. I didn't honest. But well, yes, because it's really putting on the pressure, quite a bit, actually. played dead, he activated his defense system. And well, since everything is fine, protected area, so let's go and release her here next to the wetland good thing I didn't have anything. We're going to free him. Fortunately, I had nothing means there's plenty of life around. Look, we're going to release it because the area. If it's a species that isn't native to this area, then it can't be done. So, yes, we can release him right here. There's not much of a protocol involved, it's simply a matter of opening the door, stepping aside, and that's it. So I'll go there and that's it. So I'll go there and wait for it to come out. opened the door for him. Yes, he got under the blanket. Kid, I already opened it. Yes, he pulled the blanket off her. He came out with his blanket and everything. Oh, kid. came out with his blanket and everything. Oh, kid. Kid, the blanket is all rolled up. Kid, the blanket is all rolled up. That. people right here, if you notice it 's a bit tense. So the cija and we're going to leave [music] so that she can leave here peacefully. is not like a large opossum that may have more knowledge. There it is. It will its defense mechanism. So, I'm leaving. Wait, wait, wait. Before we very important information for you: you remember my book, right? Well , this April 26th I'm going to have another book signing at the see you all there, all the people are around, well come so we can meet. That's signing area 4, so yeah, you know, if you're around there. See you at 10 a.m., April 26, Bogotá, book fair, signing area 4. I love you all very much. Continue. where the most critical emergencies are treated, and we are here to save wild animals arrive at our assessment centers after suffering put their existence at risk. Handling such a volume of cases requires collective conscience [music] that prevents these animals from ending up injured. a very dangerous animal, so I must be extremely careful and for this I must have all the necessary food and protection. Okay, right now impressive and I want you to see it in 3, 2, 1. We have an Indian python. It's huge, it's from India. It's the fault of traffic, we don't know how, but it arrived in be over there. But anyway, what we're going to do is morphometry. Basically, what is done is that it is measured and weighed. Because? You might ask yourselves, is this an indicator of well-being in reptiles? Because reptiles always, that is, grow. Let me give you an example. When I went to the Amazon, we measured the caimans to find out how much they were growing and to measure the water quality. In other words life, she will continue to grow. So, that's what we're going to do right now, measure her to find out how much she's grown, how much weight she's gained. And an Indian python. Okay, don't judge me, it's my first time doing this, have it right there at the tip. Exact. got there. We removed at 150. 150. 150 and it comes back and starts again plus 13. 150 + 13. Well, it measures 2.53 cm. enormous. I think it's the first time a very interesting fact: for every meter of snake, one person is needed to handle it. In this case there are 2 and a half, three people, we're not going to split one in half. Also, something I was just told is that if she's want this procedure done, she'll start moving her tongue too much 's moving his tongue, but not nearly as much as he could be Ready. First, the body is released. I 'm not using much force right now, I'm just holding her head because she's quite still. Okay. And here I turn it around . Here it goes. Exactly. And here we let it go and see And here we let it go and see how much it weighs. It weighs 11.80 g. And once we have the data, we take it back to its habitat to continue with its life, and then we draw conclusions. And they're going to gently unload my body. We downloaded the body. That. Very good. Ready. Incredible. It turned out so amazing. I do this, I said, it's going to be very difficult. I had never held a Oh well. Indian Python, measuring 2.53 cm, 11.80 kg. quite large. They just brought to do the same process, but first I have to show you this one here. This is an Indian python. The thing is, she's not albino. At this moment, he's a noticed, he raised his head and was just now moving his tongue at us. He the movement of moving the tongue is called. What's happening? She is, so to speak, ordinary. The one we just measured that is yellow is albino. Albinism in this type of snake is yellow. I didn't know that. I honestly thought it was but no, no. This is the original one, and the other is a limited edition. Oh dear, this one is a bit more aggressive. Look at her, look at her, look at her. mean by constrictor? Basically, what it does is not kill the prey by biting it, but rather it squeezes it with its body and suffocates it. That's what he She can kill a pig, a dog, a human. Then, look, they wrap their bodies around each other and squeeze them. Just like the Constrictor wedding. And any snake you hear that has "constrictor" in its name is one that kills its prey by suffocating them because they squeeze them. She's too pretty. It is also albino and saw, but this one is from Indonesia. If you notice, it's moving quite a bit. But oh well, this is something that has to be done anyway. I want to know how tight it is. Wow, it's really tight. Wow, it's really tight greet someone and squeeze them hard. Oh, mommy. No, now imagine being a poor wild boar or something. He kills him in seconds. I suffocated him at this moment. Look, my hand is tighter than ever and this one is squeezing my hands really hard. But well, no. Let's measure it. Stay still, man. Stay still, man. Let me measure myself. This is going to be complicated, isn't it? Yes. Yes. I think that I think it's better for her, with just the weight we know she's also wanting to kill us, but it's for her own good, only she doesn't understand it. 11.6 weighed a little less than the other one, but well, very similar. Hey, I just heard some really interesting information . This is the second first one we do have here in Colombia, which is the Anaconda. She is a male. What did I just say? He is a male and he is smaller because in snakes the males are smaller. [music] It's the same as with birds of prey, you female is bigger than the male. Something I find very difficult to understand about animals because just think that to get to Indonesia they have to take a plane and it's hours and hours and hours of flying. She [musician] is a story be? We don't know, do we? We know he arrived, but no, we don't know his reproduction of them already. So if they bring a male, he brings a female, they reproduce, they are born here and they start to grow. Of course, because that's the other one. She may be Colombian, that is, her parents may have been from Indonesia, but they adopted her here and she was born here. But nothing, it's still very sad. We're going to heal a pau hill who got into a fight with another one and has quite a few injuries. The back of its head is a bit bald because it split open, and it doesn't have many feathers. below it. So the idea is to apply to help moisturize it and so that those wounds heal better. as soon as n't be like that. He is the paugil I told you about, and look, if you fought with another one, right? He got into a fight with someone else. He got into a , I think this one lost, it's a little noticeable. Look, if you notice, right here near of his head, he has several wounds, so the idea is to moisturize all of see about that in a bit. It also has several wounds, so the idea is to scab if it comes off, that is, the idea is not to pull it off, but if it comes off naturally by good. And then apply some creams so that, well, it heals better and it's very been with other paufil before and they don't usually do that. So, first we're going spread it here on the gauze so we can clean the wound well before applying the cream. Good product. And here where it has the [unclear - possibly "it would be" or "it would be"] we apply it carefully like this. Grab it there. Don't scratch it either, just a normal touch, you can that helps a lot, all this that he has a bald patch and at some point it to add more. The recovery process begins. I just heard something, and that is that the treatment is best done on the he has, or rather, it is suspected that he no longer sees out of that eye. It was like a problem. So, right now he's just going to the vet he knows, but he's not antiseptic. It needs to be thoroughly moisturized so that it properly activates the healing process. Okay, the part behind the head is done. Now follow the wing, which I haven't seen yet. Uh, look at this area, I hadn't really seen it very well before. It's a bit impressive, but well, you can tell he did fight quite a bit because if you notice, he has a good-sized open wound. I mean, look, you can see there was a fight. Ugly, ugly. Yes, the other guy did manage more here because it's still wide open. Yes, yes, yes, baby, yes baby. apply a phytostimulant, which for those who don't understand, like me, is a healing cream so that, well, it heals better and the wound closes as soon as apply it directly and then with the glove, which is clean, I'm going to spread it back, which I'm also going to do, because that was already quite vet just explained to me that there's always a way to immobilize him so he doesn't run the risk of applying the product to the wrong place . They hold my skull there and I finish applying the cream. So that everything is applied correctly. Okay, it's done. Now we wait for this to take effect and, well, hopefully he'll heal very soon. food supplement, but through a feeding tube, that is, with this syringe and this tube here it will be put through his beak and the idea is to give him that supplement because he's at a good weight, it's just that he's maintained it, he doesn't want to gain weight to reach his this here. Uh, it weighs 2 kg, the idea is for it to gain weight. So, all I'm going to do is hold his head up and the vet will take care of probing him. Come on, kid. So, look, you open its beak, you put the little tube in. One would think small animal, yes, unlike other animals, but you still have to use give it the supplement with the syringe. The tube reaches the crop, and you have to very measured because if we measure something wrong or something like that, we can cause him to aspirate, which, to put it simply, is like hurting him internally; it's for his own good. He'll right? He'll never understand, but we do. [laughs] He we do. [laughs] He screwed you up, he didn't pick it up. And well, he's already been put wait a good while for him to recover, and hopefully he'll never fight again and hopefully he'll never fight again because you see what happens. rescued after being separated from his mother and having no one to take care of him. professionals take care of him every day and ensure he doesn't lose his through special procedures known as enrichments, which I will we come to the environmental enrichment workshop, and all this chaos purpose so that each animal has its own stimulation. They explained to me wild use most of their energy going to look for food, either by predatory animal or by eating leaves like the giraffe does. So what go hunting, but we still have to encourage him to expend this energy and somehow make his life here as to show you many examples that I found. Look, here are no longer have a function, but they gave them a second use: they fill them with little external habitat of the meerkats so that they have to dig and with sticks get think in order to get the food. This overstimulates them. that stores the food here, forcing them to work hard would in their natural environment, right? Now, for example, this giant bottle here is that it is hung at a height, the food is put in it and several small holes are made so that he has to dig, put his tongue in and well, get the food as he does naturally. But here we use this method. There are 1 ways to since we are with the bear, we are going to use made from grated carrot with granulated cola. There is nothing that said I could try it. So, let's see what bear ice cream tastes like. granulated cola. It's delicious. And look how joy ran away. After all, he's still able to run freely. And he also really liked the enrichments we to stimulate your senses and help you remember what your life was like before your mother was taken from you. Now we must go rescue a pig. because it was abandoned in a market square. It's not a a life that deserves to be cared for and and we're going to see how we can catch the pig, because, well, the conclusion I came to is that his story is what happens to most of that Vietnamese pigs, and that is that they are medium-sized black pigs . Many people buy them stay small, but that's a lie; they grow up to weigh about [music] 50 kg or 60 kg. Then, as they grow too large, they houses and they abandon them to see who will rescue them. We're doing nothing; it's a really. Not knowing what to have, that is, not being well prepared to have an animal, that . Let's see how familiar he is with humans. But necessary equipment to be able to catch him and take him to a good place the streets. Good news. They managed to get it into a house's yard, which makes because there won't be people watching the procedure, who might a house's yard, it's kept there, making it much quicker. Let's get it. caught? Where's the pig, my brother? Ah, look at the big pig. Ah, it's not huge. No, I'm telling you that people think it's small, but then this 60 kg pig comes out. Look, he was tied up there in the street a while ago n't leave. But look, it seems to be there, I mean, a rope cutting it. No, no, that's not possible. Well, we have to change his life. He traumatic, but believe me, this is completely normal. Remember that the method of defense of pigs is to scream very loudly to break eardrums. these procedures are done, they scream very loudly and it's very traumatic, but it's There it is. There it is. [laughs] Imagine it was open here and we were going to leave remained. Let's see. Ugh, it's heavy. It's really heavy, isn't I estimate it weighs about 60 kg because we're lifting it and it's difficult for us. Now grab hold, but from here, from below. [ __ ]. One, two, three. Oh , it's going in case it opens, so that the counterweight remains. Go for it. Okay, fine. I thought it was going to be much more tedious, but it wasn't. Very calm, very calm. Very good. Incredible. And just like that, we saved a life. We're going to take a little doe, well, two of the three we have, out to sunbathe. Violeta, who is the smallest of them all. more nervous, and they told me it's best not to hold her. And this Cataleya, which is Can I smell it? Well, I'm going to smell it, to be honest. Okay, but how dirty can the diet is... Oh, look how she licks. I'm going to grab it with my hand, to be honest. I don't mind. Mm. But to smell it, it smells like rabbit poop. The truth doesn't smell bad. I thought it was different, no. It smells like rabbit poop. Okay, now we're going to get Violeta. to get Violeta. Come on, girl. Oh, no. Very calm, very calm. Okay, there it is. How did he do it? He did too beautifully. He did too beautifully. Oh my God. No, calm down, calm down, girl. No, incredible. You really want to grab her and hug her. I could stay like that all afternoon. She's less than a month old, soon . It's already been a month. And oh my God, she's just too soft. He's touching my nose, I feels amazing. Look, this is their corral. And then they're already to bring them some carrots, and well, so they can be there and get some sun, right? Incredible. Too beautiful. It smells nice. Of course, the smell of pee was very strong. The pee smells much stronger, like cat's, I feel. Something very white spots on their backs, and they are not simply to make them prettier and cuter, but they actually serve a very key function. In the irregular patches fall onto the ground. The points on the back replicate that pattern. an animal and starts looking like the forest floor. It is also known that predators detect shapes more than colors. So, these points the serpatillo were pixelated. They only have this when they are babies. as an adult. So, your best option is to camouflage yourself and hide. We were mother didn't want to feed them, so we had to raise them, that is, , we're just giving them a little bit since they're quite full. This there. There, I lied. If you want to drink, if you want to drink, if you are drinking, patience. They lower the milk. In other words, it's very fast. You see them as tiny, but look, they just had a bottle. In how many seconds? Less than a minute. The truth is, they eat quite a lot. They have a good appetite. Let's see. Girl, sad news. A sloth just arrived here at the clinic. The Colombian Caribbean is coming bought it and then, according to the story, they know how to do that turn there. But it's very sad because we've just been aggressive animals when they have young. So, to have brought this sloth that is umbilical cord, it is most likely that they killed its mother in order to take it away. And now it's too young, it doesn't have the milk and everything it provides to two dead, because lifting such a delicate animal is very difficult. But anyway, let's see how this little baby is doing. how this little baby is doing. Oh, it's not a superbaby. Use a small stuffed animal for it to hold on to. So that he is sex it is, came from the Colombian Caribbean, some people bought him and well, unfortunately because in reality it shouldn't be like this, he shouldn't have been sad that they told us is that sloths when they have young are take the young away is very difficult. this baby, they had to have killed the mother. Now, that's the first misfortune. The mother could have died. The second reason is that it can also happen to him because, being such a baby, he didn't receive the first milk he gives to his mother, which is called colostrum, the most important milk for any what's happening right now? It's a defenseless animal, it can have many bacteria because as such it has no defenses, so it doesn't mean that it's is, but it still has a probability of living and everything possible will be done to save it, [music] but it's something very complicated , I mean, it's only about two days old and look at the story it saddest thing about animal trafficking, because there are people who, even out of ignorance simply buy animals on the roads without knowing all the deforestation, and the whole problem of animal trafficking, and because of this lack of knowledge, the animals end up telling such sad stories as these. So, right now he's being given food that's electrolytes with milk, like [music] cow's milk because in fact it's already known that that special formula we'll start feeding him and help him get better, the take care of it. That is very beautiful, but believe me, it's even more beautiful to see it in but believe me, it's even more beautiful to see it in its natural habitat. injured inside a sack. We don't know what we have, but we'll have to remember, emergencies never stop. for letting me come and record this incredible experience and these to invite all of you farmers, if you'd like to come and learn about how nature works. It would be enjoy it. And again, thank you so much for trusting me to record and show you all a little bit of all the work that goes into all these animals. Thank you so much. So, remember that if you subscribe, share it, and if I forgot any, well, you forgot any, well, you know what to do. Goodbye farmers.