July
30, 2016
Want
to know why a leopard can't change its spots?? Because they are actually
on their skin as well. If you were to
shave the hair off of a leopard, their skin would still be spotted!
Kevin
is working on making haylage for the animals... It is a mix of-
Spent
grain (mases- also used for fishing to attract fish).
Molasses
Acacia
pods (milled)
Dicrostatis cinerea (sickle boss) (in South
Africa used in horse feed to prevent gas colic) For Kevin’s silage, he cut down
a tree, put it through a wood chipper, and then through a hammermill. This could prove to be an important forage
resource for ruminants because it is a very invasive species due to overgrazing
of cattle, but, it is a very important tree that is used for firewood and wood
chips.
Everything
was wrapped and has been sitting since May.
Today was the first time Kevin had opened one of them and fed it for the
first time!
The
sheep seem to like it!
At
feeding time…
Prior
to being wrapped and fermented. Kevin is
going to try and send me some samples and I will be sending them to Dr. Felton,
my major professor from West Virginia University and hopefully they will be
able to collaborate on some projects!
The
monkeys are naughty! We darted one of
the Vervet monkeys because she got in a fight with one of the other females and
had her tail almost bitten off and broken. We applied an elastrator band
above the wound so the damaged area would fall off.
The
oxygen levels of all the animals are monitored while they are tranqed.
The
monkeys are naughty!
Waiting
for the cage to be cleaned so she can be put in to come out. She spent the night in the nursery and then
was returned to her cage to heal.
I
walked around for a while taking pictures of the animals and the orphanage…want
to make sure I didn’t forget anything!!
Dash
was unmotivated to get up for a picture….
The
baby kitchen
The
nursery
Stenbok
that lives at the orphanage. Yes he has
two ears…the other one was folded back against his head!
Tami,
the female kudu, a permanent resident of Chipangali.
One
of the duiker babies
Dash,
you handsome beast!
One
last spa treatment from Victor.
Still
think these are Shame’s long lost relatives.
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