wild life center day 2

11 June 2011

This morning we started to prepare the food for the animals that eats in the morning .it is the first  time that we are doing it and it is interesting ,we had to cut meat from bones and had to cut meat  into different size pieces .
because not animals eat the same sizes of meat like ;

• LIONS - eats bigger pieces than the other animals 
• servals - eats the meat cutted up into medium size pieces
• carecols - eats big pieces ,some times half a  chicken
• Cheetah - eats the smallest meat pieces mixed with Iams (concentrated cat pellets ).
• owls - eats different sizes of meat depends on the size of Owl

Some of the other students prepared the fruit and veggies for the animals that eats only fruit and vegetables
.animals like :

• Vervit monkeys - eats fruit like : apples ,oranges,bananas, grapes etc
• squirrel - eats seeds and raisins with yogurt on top 
• rabbits - apples ,grapes and rabbit pellets 

After the feeding of all the animals we had to go and clean all the cages by raking all the grass together cleaning the water bowls taking out old food bowls etc also cleaning the poo of the animals ..

12/06/2011

this morning i prepared the fruit sorts for all the different animals and went to feed the animals that i prepared food for .
after feeding the animals i went to wash the dishes like ; all the dirty bowls,buckets ,knives etc
and cleaning all the used and dirty equipment

 we got in new stock that we had to load off and put in the store room like ; boskos ;mielies and bird seed etc

today we also had class and after that we had a fire meeting where we went to go and check if all fire equipment are still working and what must be replaced etc

13/06/2011

Prepared food for the animals (meat) also went with one of the second years to go and feed the animals .
this morning is going to be the first time that i will be feeding the lions and i am very exiting and i can feel the adrenaline pumping through my body .
when going to feed the lions and they see you coming they start to make a growling type of noise but not an aggressive noise .only making the sound because it is feeding time and they know it because it is kept in a routine ...
when feeding the LIONS you have to do the following -

• 2 persons must go to feed them then ,one locks the lions to the side while the other one quickly go in then right after the one enter the other one enter 
• then when inside the cage do not give the wrong food to the wrong lion ( MAX - gets  bigger pieces than LEX because he eats quicker than she does )
• lock the lion away from each other by calling their names ,one to the right and one to the left (LEX - left and MAX - right ) 
• give the food at the same time other wise they will fight over the food or one bowl
• when they are done take the bowls away other wise they will bite and play with them..

cleaning inside and outside the clinic
we swept and mopped the inside of the clinic also took the old blankets out of the owls cages and placed new ones in the cages ( Dolf the Barn owl )
we also raked and swept outside the clinic to tidy up around the clinic a bit and keep the place neat ..

14/06/2011

This ,morning i prepared the milk for all the different animal that drinks milk like

• giraffes (Peanut and Matilda )
• nyala ( Lilly and Clover )
• blesbuck (Donnie and Clyde )
• also the small servals 

i went to feed the giraffes and all the other animals and it is a really great experience feeding a giraffe milk and seeing how far he bends down just to drink also how long his tung  is and how quickly they can drink 4 liters of milk ..also really seeing how beautiful this animal is up close

toady was one of the most exiting days at the wild life center .. we are going to do animal capturing
and this is another great chance to really learn a lot especially from the people you work with
we went to go and capture ZEBRA ,BLUE WILDEBEEST ..we were doing chemical game capture ( darting) .it was interesting to see how long it takes the chemical to start working on the animals
when the animal stop running and was down we had to place it on a stretcher and keep its head up straight .we also had to Carrie the animals and place it on the transporting vehicle..it was really interesting and i really learned  a lot by doing this animal capture method and i am grateful for the opportunity..WHAT A FUN DAY /.................

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