Back to work today. After yesterday's relaxing my body has recovered enough. Orangs was my job today, I was working with Edie. With her broken toe she was in charge of the hose meaning I had six cages to clean, but we still worked well together and got it done in no time at all. I managed to shuffle off to have Rosey time.
She was in a foul mood, I think not seeing her at the weekends makes her angry with me. At least it wasn't poo today that she was throwing just a sweet potato, I gave it back to her and she threw it on the ground, returned it to her again and she threw it inside her cage and glared at me. I had noticed before that she was dehydrated, and today Kerry noticed again. I went round to the hose and let her drink from it. If I get a chance to add photos and videos at some point I have this on film, uber cute!
We were running a bit low on food so I had instant noodles and plastic cheese for lunch. First bit of cheese all holiday, it tasted so good. Dairy is so uncommon here and cheese is very expensive and a bit artificial. I think I may have to have a cheese binge on my return to the UK. Whilst eating my lunch on the porch, Mel returned home from a morning at the farm, she was a picture. Covered head to toe in mud! She looked exhausted.
Afternoon duties were up at the board walk, scrubbing away, my body was starting to ache again but at least I was sat down in the shade. We have now made it up to the deer enclosure so we had a view whilst we worked. Then suddenly a new born baby got scared of a noise and bolted, escaping from the enclosure. I have never seen Richard move so fast and before you knew it there was squealing coming from the forest, he'd caught it. This escaping went on for a while with two further attempts. Mum was getting pretty anxious but eventually baby calmed.
We had a nice quiet evening, but also got the sad news that the Pangolin had died, he had been off his food for a few days and as they are not really studied no one quite knew what to do. They think that because it wasn't feeding from its mum it didn't have the right bacteria in its tummy to support it being weened onto ants. Very sad but he had a good life with Kerry babysitting him round the clock.
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