Simon at Sepilok

Sogo Sogo has unfortunately had another setback and is now not expected out of quarantine for at least another week. Nothing too serious, just a little bit sick, but looks like it will be touch and go whether i get a farewell cuddle from her before we leave in 2 weeks... :-(

During a very slippery banana delivery and then sweeping duties at the Outdoor Nursery we bumped into Elis and Ruth. They were collectings specimens from their "small mammal survey". I won't spoil the surprise and tell you what they had in their bags, as we'll be doing that work ourselves next week...

After that it was over to the feeding platform for the tourist session. Off came my boots and i found no less than four leeches heading towards my toes. Time to start using those sexy leech socks from now on methinks!
This was another good session, lots of Orangutans at the platform including the 3 big males once again.

Apart from that, pretty much business as usual. Nick and i watched the girls taking the young orangutans out for exercise (It was good to see Lipong and Nonong get some fresh air with Yvonne and Ruth - they are both recovering from illness), while we continued to assemble the roof struts for the new play area.

Quick Tiger after work at the nearby Jungle Resort (richly deserved i might add...!) and a change of food from resthouse cuisine went down very well :-)