What a gorgeous day to be working outside at the zoo
today!
We were lovely and busy with a mixture of families,
couples and groups of friends visiting today, many of whom were interested in
our work and asked lots of questions.
The only small problem that I had was that our male lion
Charlie Brown had decided to have a lay in. No amount of cajoling could get him
up for the 11am Lion Talk, and there he stayed until 3pm then roared all
afternoon to announce his readiness for the day!
His friend Nahla however came over for a brush, something
we try to do for all of our cats that like a bit of a tickle, we can't put our
fingers through the mesh for obvious reasons but can brush them through the
wire with a washing up brush!
The black lemur, Antaly was hopping about her branches
with her gorgeous little 4 week old baby clinging on to her tummy a lot today,
to the pleasure of our smaller visitors.
One of the two conservation projects that the zoo
supports is the Madagascar Fauna Group (MFG) - a great organisation and one of the
few still working in Madagascar at the moment due to the dangerous political
unrest. All 100 odd species of lemur in Madagascar are threatened, mainly due
to loss of forest habitat.
Madagascar is a poor country and the locals need to farm
the land in order to eat. The MFG , amongst other things, are teaching locals
sustainable farming methods such as planting crops in between the trees. We are very proud to be supporting them.
Come and visit us if you are here on holiday or if you
live here. We would love to see you and you'll be helping tigers and lemurs to
survive in their natural habitats too! I'm here every Monday!!
Go along to the Zoo, It might be smaller than some other zoos, but there is so much to see.... go around with Georgie or another tour guide. They will tell you all about the animals, interesting to find out where they were born or came from. ohhh and go to cafe and enjoy the fantastic chips they do ....
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