WILD LIFE CENTER

10 June 2011


Today is the first day of our animal care course and i am really exited about this course .because it is the course that i am most interested in and where i really want to learn a lot .
nature is one of the passions in my life .and i really love working with animals.

in my first day at animal caring we went on a short tour around the wild life center .
one of the second years showed us around and told us a bit more of where everything is and what we need to do where and how .

the first day was just the basics of the wild life center like the hygiene for e.g. washing the dirty bowls and boards etc.the basic knives we use for the different food sorts like .:

• blue and red knives - for fruit and veggies 
• black and yellow knives - meat sorts and chicken.

also how the scale works and how to weigh the different food items for the animals ,and different boards we use to cut on  like :

• Red board - meat 
• blue board - fish 
• green - veggies and fruit 
• white - veggies and fruit 
• yellow - chicken

during the first day at the wild life center we mainly observed the work on what the second years do and how we are going to do it ..and what we are going to do everyday like ;

• Cleaning the animals cages 
• feeding the different animals 
• checking the water sources etc 
• cleaning inside the center and outside the center
• doing maintenance in the wild life center and much more

In the afternoon Lauren   came to give us our animal behavior lesson of all the animals and that was very interesting and learned a lot about it .

LIONS - she told us to be careful and not to taunt them at the start and at all . she told us a few things to look out for in a lions behavior like :

1. look at how the eyes change when they are stalking you 
2. they pull back their ears when about to charge at you 
3. not to bent down directly in front of them as we will be seen as prey .
4. when stalking they will be very quiet and will try to take advantage if you do not concentrate and keep your eyes on them 

Carecol (rooikat) -

1. do not bend in front of them 
2. they will hiss at you when they are uncomfortable
3. do not corner them or they will attack

Serval (tierbos kat) -

1. will hiss and strike with the paw if feeling threatened 
2. do not corner give space to move freely 

Owls -

1. will  make a clapping sound  when threatened 
2. will puff up ,make them self appear larger 

and there was still a lot more  as we went to every animal in the wild life center and was told on how they behave and what to look for in a animal like ; if the animal is sick ,or injured , or is acting strangely .and any other unusual behavior .

Today was a very interesting day .i really learned a lot and it was only the first day i have been there i am really looking forward to all the coming days i will be working here ..