Ugh my head feels like crap now, it had been like tat since yesterday evening. Haiz. The keeper's attachment for FF was not really tat action packed but nevertheless an enriching sunday in my life.
The 'poor' soul who was in the station with me was andrew (the freelance photographer). We started off the day with the preparation of fruits and food for the animals in the biodome. I was tasked to bunch up fruits using the cable for the sloths and bats while andrew was b-z cutting sweet potato (and there were so many of them!) for the mousedeers. However it didn't take us too long and the keepers told us to go for teabreak. Basically during the teabreak we didn't hav much to do, jus 'nua' around as we jus had too much time to spare.
The fun part was after our lunch (lunch was almost the same as SFI food... T_T). I was asked to follow Jules, who is incharged of the butterflies and frogs, asked me to clean up the crickets leftover food. At tat point i was still alittle freaked out when i had to open the box and imagining the crickets will jus jump all over the place and over me, luckily they didn't. Got over my fear in less than 3 mins and i actually enjoyed them hopping around my hand when i hav to reach my hand in to take out the food. They were actually quite squishy and not as hard as i tot.
Then to the butterflies, Jules taught me how to differentiate the gender between the 2 common species tat they keep around biodome; the great eggfly (the smaller black butterfly which their youngs are the spikey caterpillars) and the jungle nypmph butterfly (the bigger white butterfly which their youngs are the ones with fake big spikes). Got to catch them and release them to the biodome and it's really fun as ppl will jus come over and look at them, asking qns and got awed by their beauty.
After tat Jules took me to the her saki monkeys, i guess there are only 2 in the zoo. The male one is called casper whereas the female is called sol. They are 2 lively siblings but HAV to b kept apart to prevent sol from getting pregnant. Anyways Jules fed the saki monkeys stick insects and i actually felt quite sad for the poor insects. I guess it's bcos we don't get to see them often in the wild (they are suppose to b good in camouflaging anyways). And beside the saki monkey enclosure is a display of the jungle nymph pupae, i hav to gather the butterflies again to release them to the biodome, those butterflies with wings not fully developed were all KIA (killed in action) by Jules as she mentioned tat it's the best for them since they can't fly and probably won't survive inside the biodome. Tat, i was stunned! But wat she said was quite true, so bo bian.
Last item of the day was feeding the lemurs in the biodome. We followed Janice around, and again ppl jus swarm towards us. The lemurs were really cute and they preferred peeled bananas so i had to peel for 1 of them. Wat a good life!
Well, didn't get to do the closing with them, if not i will get a chance to touch the 1 and only tree kangaroo in the zoo. Shall do it again next time, with a better camera by my side tat is...
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