Volume 6 Issue 4, April 2008

Animals News

Mary:
Mary had seizures on the 9th and 11th April after having previously experienced her last seizure over 2 months ago. During the seizure Mary broke her middle finger on her right hand. She was taken to the vets where she received treatment and now appears to be looking better. Her finger is healing well.


Mary

Honey & Bobby
From observation it appears that sometimes when playing the pair can get quite rough with each other. Often Honey will try and chase Bobby around the enclosure.

Jep

Jep:
Jep has began banging against the cage harder then before. The plan is to try and move Jep to an alternative cage in order to provide him with distance from the viewing platform away from the tourists, to try and discourage this behaviour.

O:
On April 4th O was moved from Quarentine back to his original cage in rehabilitation, he is now living back with Cop his old cage mate.

New arrival

Beauty: (White-handed Gibbon: Hylobates lar)
On the 5th April Beauty arrived at the GRP, she was collected from Patong police station, after having been confiscated as she was being exploited by her owner and was being used frequently to have her photos with tourists in exchange for money.
Seagame: ( White-handed Gibbon: Hylobates lar)
Seagame was brought to the GRP on April 10th, she had been kept as a pet and lived in a province north of Phuket, the owners decided that they wanted a better future for seagame and therefore donated her to the project in hope that one day she will be successfully rehabilitated and released into the forest. She arrived 5 days after Beauty so we attempted to house the 2 gibbons together. This has gone very well and both get along fine and will often be observed playing together and sometimes Beauty has been observed with 1 arm around Seagame.


Beauty	Seagame

Rescues:

Slow loris:
On 16th April, some people brought a slow loris into the GRP it was found on a street behind the forest in Patong. They looked after the slow loris the night before bringing to us here at the project. After 2 days in our care the decision was made that it should be released so staff and volunteers went into the forest at 9:00pm when it was dark and released the slow loris.

Later in the month on April 22nd, another 2 slow loris were brought into the GRP mother and baby. Both were found in the forest by a man who thought he would bring them into the GRP. However both were fine and in good health and be best off remaining in the forest, so both mother and baby were returned to the forest the following day and were successfully released.

Forest:

Payu Group:
Feeding basket A was repositioned, it was moved from 284B to 220B. Food has been offered in the feeding basket 9 times since April 10th. Payu family are doing well, and have been observed consuming a variety of wild fruits including Artocarpus rigidus(Moraceae), Dialiumindum(Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae), as a result the quantity of project food offered will be decreased from 2.5Kg down to 2.0Kg.

Payu's current turritory


*Artocarpus rigidus*(Moraceae)	*Dialium indum*(Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae)

Arun Group:
On April 1st Arun group was observed. All gibbons were seen and appear to be doing well. The youngsters spent a lot of time playing and chasing each other through the trees. The gibbons moved quickly through their territory.


Arun	Yoge

Hope Group:
On April 17th observations were carried out on hope group, the group stayed within close proximity of each other throughout the day. Thong was observed for the duration of the day, during which time he watched the observed closely and at one point even came down and attempted to attack the observer. On a number of occasions both Hope and Arun group were heard interacting through vocalisations.

Hope Group

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