Logbook entry 05.06.2012

CAPTIVE ANIMAL MANAGEMENT LEVEL 4

Subject: Logbook

Team members: 1^st ye4ar group, Lisette, Gunther, Christelle, Lauren and Karen.

This morning we did not have a feeding tour so we did the feeding and I conducted a tour with the guests who slept over the previous night. They were elder guests and so I had to walk slowly and they were only interested in certain animals such as the birds and babies. I took them on a tour around the whole centre before they had to leave and they had a lot of questions. They were very happy with the experience and they assured me they were coming back for another visit very soon.

Today we received two new volunteers from Canada, they are not with Ecolife and they were to be staying with us for the week. They lived in the village and they helped us on night shift with the babies and with the daily tasks during the day.

This afternoon I conducted class for the new class and Faatjie did their induction with them. We sorted out the night shift roster, the weekends, the cleaning roster for the classroom and decided on a meeting date for the 1^st year group.\

I went to class day at the academy after lunch and made finishing touches on the legislation slide shows. This evening I am on night shift with Tian.

This evening Abbey came back from the vet and they could not do the x rays on her as their machine had broken. Abbey, the lion cub, is very weak and she does not drink as much as she should. She tries to drink and you can see she wants the milk but as soon as she tries to she pushes away the bottle as if something hurts her. She had to get a sub coetaneous every two hours which is a shot underneath the skin so she can keep hydrated. I have no experience in this so Lauren took care of her for the night and she unfortunately only made it until the next day lunch time.

This evening we also implemented the new heaters, they are flat surfaced and they were attached to the wall so the babies could lie against them for heat during the cold winter. We had to lift them up a bit because the heat is a bit too hot but it is definitely working with the red lights to fight off the cold. We now need to sleep by Alley at night so she is not alone but with the new heaters, who is complaining?