Magazine enrichment parcels .

Unbelievably,today is the last full day ,with the orangutans. It has flown!
We started at 8am with making enrichment parcels out out magazines..putting leaves with jam or peanut butter between the pages,as well as envelopes with nuts or seeds in ,also between the pages. Adding seeds nuts and fruits wrapped up in individual pages. The whole thing was rolled up and held together with palm leaves
We were able to go to the baby house and saw 2 baby orangutans who had been rescued as well as another which was older but had been trapped on a live electric fence...resulting in half of one arm and all of the other, needing amputation.
Despite this the orangutan was up in the trees with the orangutan minders. It was hard to see and there's a 2nd one who's just been rescued in the same circumstances, requiring amputation of limbs .This one is currently living at the Vets clinic on site ..There are 15vets I think
We had a look at the vet clinic and saw that the orangutans get the recognisable medication that humans get .
We also saw the vets doing a health check on an orangutan under sedation.
We then took the enrichment parcels to the orangutans enclosures and watched what they did with them.Some,genuinely seemed to look at the pages ,carefully unwrapping each page...and dwelling on the images for a few moments.
After lunch the activities were either leaf collection or repairs to an orangutan platform on the island. I'd have liked to do repairs but was assigned to leaf collection....we collected Ginger leaves
On our return, we take the leaves to the orangutan enclosures.
I asked to be excused from going to the enclosures as I need to do my hair colour before the final evening party..and as this takes an hour and things were starting earlier than usual I needed to grab some extra time..So I asked Wik the volunteer manager if I could be excused and could she keep secret,why i was going back to the Lodge early. The group were concerned I wasn't well but I said all was fine.
Wik had also promised to take me for a ride on her scooter....which she did once everyone was back. By this time I'd done my hair and packed my suitcase. It was fun ..I only expected to go round the forecourt at the front of the Lodge, but she took me through the estate and down to the road.At this point I had to say ,I don't think we should go on the road....I'd no helmet and neither had she .people don't seem to bother. 😳🤦‍♀️. We returned and by this time word had got out what we had been doing.
Kate the volunteer coordinator organised a pop up shop with stickers fridge magnets and bookmarks, whilst Wik had a pop up shop of things made by the technicians ,mainly bracelets. I bought a bookmark and a fridge magnet of a favourite orangutan called Kekan
After dinner, we had a video showing the rescue journey of the disabled orangutan....I think we were all moved to tears It was a good job that collectively we'd planned to do a mini show of the spice Girls song ....Stop...as we'd learned Kate liked them when she was at school.One of the volunteers, Sophie is an experienced Chef and having got the ingredients together with some difficulty, made scones for after dinner, which were delicious.
We then played a game of Werewolf ,but this time i watched as I'd gone up to pay my bill ,buy 2 tee-shirts and my new furry friend Tango .I've yet to figure out how to get Tango back to the UK....He's not small and won't fit in my case 🤔..Illusion slightly shattered when I discovered an IKEA label on his bottom!! There are others but I liked this ones face and fur best. Czytaj więcej