AUGUST 2004
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NEW ARRIVALS
We have recently received four new gibbons at the WARED sanctuary. They are all White-handed Gibbons with diseases that the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project-GRP were caring for on Phuket. There are two couples; Vernon and Topps, and Jupe and Boi...
CAGE REFURBISHMENT
We have fifty-five Crab-eating Macaques at the sanctuary and we are currently refurbishing their cages. We are changing their environments slightly to help relieve any boredom that they might have and to keep their minds active...
MATCH MAKING
We have two Pileated Gibbons at the centre,
one male and one female called Nut and Nuan. As they are the only two grown Pileated Gibbons that we possess. Here we have tried to pair them together...
Kamla is a baby Crab-eating Macaque who was born at the WARED centre at the beginning of March 2004. Her mother died giving birth to her and therefore she was entirely dependant on the dedication of volunteers, intern students and the staff members to hand-rear her.
BABY GIBBONS
We have five baby gibbons at the project; one Pileated male and four White-handed. The White-handed are three males and one female. We kept them in a medium sized cage together so that they could interact and learn from each other. They were kept in that cage for a while and then we transferred them into a larger cage when it became available...
GENERAL NEWS
We have just built a plant nursery in the grounds of our sanctuary. This is so that we can germinate plants and grow young plants until they are big enough to place into the soil in various locations around our centre. We are growing many plants already that are indigenous to this area and hopefully we can decorate our project with many species of plants and create ecosystems for many different animals...
We have just had some environmental science students from the North East of Thailand to stay with us for a few days. They were very interested in our project and enjoyed the local wildlife and surroundings...
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Another busy month at WARED, Bann Thalaenork. No day is the same and we are all kept busy with caring for the animals, building new cages, refurbishing old cages, doing maintenance work and planning for the future. We are growing and changing everyday. It's been a month of hot sunny days and drenching rain. The work goes on come rain or shine...
NEW ARRIVALS
Earlier this month we received three Flying Squirrels from our Lopburi Monkey Hospital. They had been given to the hospital by members of the public...
ANIMAL UPDATE
Jupe and Boi and Vernon and Tops are settling in well. They enjoy joining in with the morning singing contests and the personal attention from the staff and volunteers. As each day goes by we learn more about their personalities...
Kamla has made the big move to the forest and is now living with Beckham. Beckham is being a bit bossy as he is not used to sharing his cage and the attention, but he is learning to share...
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GENERAL NEWS
The cage building and refurbishing continues. With 55 Crab-eating Macaques there are a lot of relationships to work out...
An example of the recent refurbishment is the work recently done to Lefty's cage. Lefty is our Slow Loris , he came to us with only one hand, we don't know how he lost the other one....
We have also been building new stands to attach the gibbons feeding baskets. They have proven to be effective and a lot safer for staff to feed and clean the baskets. All our gibbons came to us from different situations and they have their own unique personalities. They are not tame and even the quiet ones can be unpredictable at times...
Work around the grounds continues. We have recently installed lighting throughout the centre so that we can make our way around at night without the need for a torch...
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NEW ARRIVALS
Two new White-handed gibbons arrived at the WARED sanctuary this month. They are a mother and son and Eewa and Dummy ...We also received a Stump-tailed Macaque from our Gibbon Rehabilitation Project in Phuket. She had been confiscated from her previous owner because she had attacked someone and the authorities handed her over to the GRP. Her name was Mr. Monkey but we decided that it was not very suitable and have since decided to call her Shompoo (like Shampoo), which means 'rose apple' in Thai...
ANIMAL RELEASE
We have released two animals back to the wild this month . They are a Leopard Cat and a Brahminy Kite (mentioned in the previous newsletter) . They were all released in the forest near to our centre ...
GENERALS
We are continuing to landscape the grounds of our centre by creating flower beds in various places. We are placing plants indigenous to the area in the beds and soon we will have a picturesque backdrop to work against.
Our staff was busy at the start of the month with The Wild Animal Lover's Day #2 in Bangkok. Four staff members and one volunteer spent a week in Bangkok preparing presentations and information for the two day exhibition...
The cage refurbishment has been finished for the time being but we are still shuffling the odd macaque here and there, to try and progress to an arrangement that is best suited to all the macaques...
We have been using our new holding cage and have been able to remove each group of macaques from their cage so that we can thoroughly clean and carry out any necessary structural repairs. The new holding cage has proven its worth and the cages are looking great.
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NEW ARRIVALS
This month we received a female crab-eating macaque. She was transferred here from the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project -GRP in Phuket. She was brought to them by a local resident who had been keeping her as a pet. We have named her Ped, the Thai word for diamond, as she is very interested in anything shiny ...
GERNERALS
After the completion of all of the adult macaque cages, it was time to refurbish our baby macaques' cage; we find that they are the residents that need almost constant refurbishment. This is partly because they play so much that no amount of wire or ingenious attachment methods last long but also because it is important to change the environments of our animals as often as possible to stop them developing stereotypical behavioural problems.
Last month we had to remove one of our macaques from his cage to investigate a bleeding lump we had noticed under his chin. After anaesthetising him and carrying out a full examination it was found to be a cyst. It was bleeding as he had been constantly picking at it. We then kept him in a temporary cage giving him regular treatments until he recovered and the wound had healed. He was finally reintroduced to his cage mates this month. There was concern they might not accept him back but they were very happy to see him he seems to be doing well.
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SPECIAL NEWS
At the end of November all the staff and volunteers went to Phuket to celebrate the 'Wedding in the Wild'. Two volunteers from the GRP decided to get married here in Thailand and we all went to support them and help out with the preparations. It was a great success and everything went very well.