Sunday, September 11, 2016

july 30 update

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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