Volunteers prepare to receive rescued Lemurs at the sanctuary

This morning volunteers continued to work on enrichment f or the Lemurs who will be flying in from Cape Town tomorrow.  Elliot did the trap door and feeding hatch, while Kate and George put up some heavy logs for the Lemurs to run along. 

Jackie went up to give the monkeys their supplements and medications.  She finally managed to get a blood test reading for Papi, our diabetic Mona monkey.  Just as she was about to draw blood earlier this morning, a light air-craft flew over, which frightened poor old Papi and he ran away from her.

The rest of the volunteers prepared the monkey food.

Just after lunch, we received notification that two more Lemurs had been rescued and are due to fly to the sanctuary with the planned Ruffed Lemurs tomorrow.  The two additional Lemurs are one brown and one black, both are blind and will need special care.  So, now due to arrive at the sanctuary tomorrow are Nina (female Ruffed Lemur), Noah (male Ruffed Lemur), Mr Black (Black Lemur) and Totsy (Brown Lemur) and one very special little Marmoset, Fossy, who up until now has been too unwell to travel to the sanctuary.

Additional transport has to be hired to carry all the boxes of new arrivals

This afternoon, work continued on the Lemur enclosure, with Elliot and George making a little pond for them to enjoy.  We still have to clean out an enclosure for the suprize additions to our intake tomorrow.

To volunteer at our sanctuary, contact Sue s.a@iprescue.org