Meeting:
Reminder that there will be a trail meeting at 1. Grady: showing signs that the new medication is not bothering her mentally, so it should be fine for continued use however, she will be monitored for the next couple of days. Lola’s baby watch: Amy wants one person to make all of the measurements on Lola’s belly bulge. Alex has surgery next week to remove a mass on her intestine.
Went to get a visual check on the animals. Siamangs were up in the trees this morning and were not interested in coming down. Went to Tamarin Complex to give them their morning diet. Gave the GLTs their new hammocks. They were slightly curious about them and smelled them a little, but other …show more content…
When to disposition Tuvok before he gets to full breeding age as he is related to all of the females in Monkey Village. It is a growing concern for Amy as she does not want him to breed with any of the females, but she is still not sure what the SSP wants from her. They are a Green species, so they are not a concern about breeding. Addition of Nocturnal primates with the new Africa trail. Moving around duties on String 2: will become Orangutans and String 4. There will be a primary on this string and it will mean that there are two primary keepers on Orangutans. There will be a change in duties and Baboon will become String 3. This will start on April 3rd. There were a lot ideas floating around about how to make these changes work. They are basically considering rearranging how the strings constituted to allow for all of the animals that need to be medicated and all the time that it takes to medicated them.
I spoke to Mary about some issues that I am having with my project. I told her that I am having a difficult time trying to come up with BE options for Orangutans. I asked if I needed to come up with something for them and she told me “No, it is hard to come up with ideas for them, since you have little interaction with them and they are a very destructive species”. I did, however, say that I would be willing to help Denise with some projects when I go back to string 3 for