Simon at Sepilok

Sunny day today, everything looking bright and fresh after the recent rains.

This morning was time to check the traps again and see which of the night mammals had been tempted by the ripening banana bait inside.

My guess was 5, Gabili said 6, Vicky said 3, Nick plumped for 4 and Irwan went for 2.

This time we were all wrong, we actually managed to trap 7 mammals. Four of them had been caught before (we could see the patch of fur had been clipped already) so we only needed to record data about the other three.
There was another type of shrew, a spiny rat (I think) and something else i can't remember.
When we input the data onto a spreadsheet later this week i'll update the blog maybe. I'm sure you're dying to find out (not!).

Back at the Indoor Nursery we bumped into Kath and Rebecca from the Outdoor Nursery group.
More great news on the release front:
Marsha, Amos and Nonong were moved from Quarantine to the Outdoor Nursery this morning and this afternoon (or tomorrow) Ruby and Salina will be joining them. All bar Nonong came in as rescued wild orangutans and have now completed their 3 months in quarantine. So that makes a total of 11 released during our final 2 weeks here and fantastic way to finish up our time on the program!

The night cages in the Indoor Nursery and are starting to look really, really empty - the next group certainly won't have so much to do as ours has!
That just leaves 10 babies and juveniles in the Indoor Nursery (Ruben, Reto, Merudu, Eniro, Ampal, Annekara, Lipong, Naru, Rosalinda and Gangi) and 2 isolated in the Clinic (Sogo and Ufuk). Plus just Naomi in the Quarantine area. Good work guys!