The weather has been,,,let’s call it: rather unusally wet and cold. Not so good for some of the younger animals in our care. We lost all our ostrich babies and also the waterbuck baby despite injecting Lantrax antibiotics….apparently not good enough to kill one specific bacteria which let’s them die very quickly. The VET still injected the right long term, 11-day antibiotics but we couldn’t save them - we lost them all on the long weekend when the rain didn’t want to stop and the wind blew cold air without any break…….

The roads are pretty bad due to all the heavy rains of this past 5 weeks…at some places the gravel road sunk in for more than 1,3 metre.

Some new babies arrived from Johannesburg, totalling our monkey orphans at 18 now…some of whom decided on the own to sleep outside with their monkey surrogate moms in our outdoor kindergarten.

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Next releases will be the Genet and the two Tree Squirrels. Also, the application for permits are sent off to Nature Conservation and we are looking forward to the release of Duimpy’s Troop at Farm Klippan, 30km out of Bela Bela.