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Red Ruffs Research Paper

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I gathered the Monkey Village cart while waiting for Philip. Philip showed me how to gather the diets for the Baboon/Mandrill string. All the buckets and bowls are placed on the second shelf. There are buckets for Baboons, Mandrills, Gibbons, Black and White Lemurs and Red ruff lemurs. He told me that Grady gets a banana slice and a melon slice for Skye for medication purposes and that the gibbons and black and white lemurs get a banana. The red ruffs do not get the banana. After that we left for the morning meeting. There were a few notes such as the changes that will occur in March. The hours will shift since March is there busy season and the late keeper will make sure that they are getting species in on time. There will also …show more content…

These three islands contain the Gibbons, Red ruff and black and white lemurs. They can go almost anywhere on their little island as both the red ruffs and black and whites were greeting us as we approached their islands. They went into their night houses without any issue. I stayed away from each species until I was instructed to get closer. I gather all feces. Each has a different type of feces. The red ruffs have extremely pungent feces, the black and whites have more liquid consistent feces while the gibbons, feces were a solid form. Cleaned the red ruffs night cubes and today is not a disinfect day. All three species got boomer balls for their BE. The gibbons are arboreal and upon approaching their island they were completing array of locomotion. At gibbons, Philip gave me some of their food to observer their behavior and what we are not supposed to do when the female, China, acts up. I gave Enik his berries first and then I gave China hers. She stretched out her are and that is a negative behavior and I was instructed to wait till she had placed her arm back into the night house before I gave her the berries. Once they were locked in we went out on exhibit I was asked to clean all feces up this included the gibbons and the bird feces. Cleaned their night house and today is not a disinfect day. It is designed a lot like the Siamang night house. Cleaned the all the bird feces at the entrance last. Cleaned the black and white feces, placed BE and their water bowl. I had to be on the boat while Philip cleaned their night cubes. Since their island is the smallest their night cubes are on a platform off the

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