booyah.
Got Ade as keeper for the day (: Started the day by losing my way while trying to find the place where I'm supposed to report for work.
Anyway, fed the animals in the morning. And correction, I saw the leopard cat on day two. Not the fishing cat. Saw the fishing cats on day three. There are eight of 'em. Really pretty, but they sure do hiss a lot. And I got a thousand and one mosquito bites while cleaning their enclosure.
After lunch (mee siam. bleah), went to cut some veg, then went off at 2. Cause the keepers had some prayer thing.
So, went into the zoo with Belle, Estee, and Claire (: (: for free (: (: cause we were wearing the volunteer badge, so they kind of just let us in. Saw the otter feeding session. Some were really greedy. They'd grab some fish and hide it under their chest, making it seem like they had none, supposedly tricking the trainer into throwing more fishies, and protecting the fishies from other otters at the same time.
Best of all, got to see Omar, Jippie and Winnie too (: (: the viewing place at their enclosure was jam-packed with people. Guess the incident last week brought them loads of publicity.
And, at kidzworld, the pony's hay dropped out of their enclosure and within our reach, so we picked up the hay and started feeding the pretty ponies. One of them is only 54kg o.o
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Day four at work.
Got Ade again (: Washed two of the pangolins' enclosure in the morning (Ros' and Hook's). Had to wash their disgusting food bowl too (which was filled with their digusting mealworm smoothie). Then, Ade brought me to see the gibbons (which actually belong to the zoo). The way they swing is so "seamless" (as Ade puts it). And their fur is like the kipling ape's fur :D
Cut stuff as usual, then went to feed the animals (: (otters, flamingoes, pelicans, white storks, all sorts of ducks, and, the sentinel chicken).
The sentinel chicken is called the sentinel chicken cause they're actually placed in this cage is which is also a snake trap (and it does not harm the chickens). Last week (or is it last month? can't remember. i think last month) 4 pelicans died cause of the snakes. So now, they're confined at night. Also, the chickens are placed all around the place, mainly near birds. So if there's the bird flu virus passing around or some other bird virus, the chickens will be the first to die. And when they do, it'll be a sign for the keepers that something's wrong. And there you have it, the sentinel chickens.
Oh, and before the day ended, I got to pat the more docile himalayan tahrs and feed them some bananas :D
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Day five at work.
Time sure pasts fast when you're having fun.
Got Dino as keeper for the day. Haven't really seen him before, so he could be counted as 'new' (to me). Thought he looked like the dao kind. But he's really quite fun :D
He looks at things in a funny way, talks about fun stuff, and, yeah. Heh. He even brought me to the male toilet cause I told him I haven't seen one before (those in MG and unisex toilets not counted).
Today was a combination of day three and day four. Did day three morning stuff, and day four afternoon stuff.
Got pecked by a silly chicken today. Didn't know they hurt so much. Maybe it's cause I ate one of its friends for lunch (lunch was awesome today).
Oh, and I cut two of my fingers while cutting veg today. Got one from cutting long beans (my mum finds it hilarious that I can actually get a cut from cutting long beans) and got the more serious cut from cutting apples. Hurts like crap.
Oh, got to see how they confine the pelicans after work today :D
Last day of work tomorrow ): ): ):
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