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Hi, my name is Lucky Boy.  And I really am a lucky boy.  My story doesnt start out so great, though.  Eleven years ago I was born in captivity in a Mexican zoo, and then sent to a resort in Southern Belize. In mid-July 2012, Facebook throughout Belize was all a-buzz about 2 jaguars discovered in an abandoned resort in Southern Belize.  Things had gone OK

The Belize Zoo is my favorite "thing to do" in Belize.  It's a 100% rescue zoo, and the animals live in natural habitat enclosures.  They respond to founding power-house Sharon Matola by name.  My favorite experience was passing by the crocodile pond with Sharon. As we walked, she called out "Bruuuuuce, Bruuuuce!".  And up swam a 16 foot crocodile.  We just kept on walking like