OK so I haven't updated this for a while but as one part of my adventure closes tomorrow I will be preparing for the next part and felt the need to summarise. My lack of updates is due to two things. The first is the fact that, as much as I love it, daily work here is repetitive and constantly repeating myself here would be boring. The second is that around two months ago the centre was inundated with many many new arrivals which has kept us all very busy. It all started with 8 arrivals from a government rescue centre requiring us to update many of the enclosures. Since then many babies have arrived and been born including two new baby langurs, one 18 months, one 4 months, four loris, four baby civets (three born at the centre and rejected by their mother) four kittens, two baby macaques, six piglets, a baby flying squirrel, a baby gibbon and a baby serrow (goat/antelope thing). Some of these have needed round the clock care, which put half the centre on baby duty and turned us all a little sleep deprived/retarded.
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| Pip and Bin my original baby langurs |
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| upside down baby Coco |
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Its been great to see the centre grow and many of the new arrivals thrive in their new environment as some where captured and sold as pets. But as is always the way some came in a bad way and didn't make it. Ive had to say goodbye to few others as well and as heartbreaking as it is I think it says a lot for the centre that I still view it as a positive place to be.
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| Mi Chok hoping for some more corn to appear |
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| Tei da seeing what Im up to |
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| kitten wants camera! |
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| New baby langur Jaja aka lady Jaja |
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| Lucy the vet nurse feeding Sasha and Luke |
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| Bruno, legs of an antelope, face of a goat, ears of a donkey |
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| Piglets! |
Ive enjoyed the work here immensely and have made great friends with ever fluctuating volunteers. I will miss the noises of the gibbons and geckos, not so much Ollie the screaming otter, and being surrounded by so much wildlife, except the ants, they all bite. It has become home for the last 6 months and will be strange to leave, however I have a new adventure to start in Vietnam and will get a new set of gibbons to care for. I'm looking forward learning all I can there and seeing the end result of primate rehabilitation, release. I'm also looking forward to a new variation of rice and vegetables.
Will keep you all updated on Nam and what jungle life is like there.
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| One of the jobs I will not miss |
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| spot the wild fishing cat |
