2010
2 NOVEMBER: The baby servals sure are a handful! Both have been named, the boy is MacCormick and the girl Galia. They are very beautiful and get along great. When it comes to feeding, the boy is a bit greedy and always tries to steal her food. They are very hyperactive and have loads of energy all the time, and love to climb all over us with their extremely sharp claws and occasionally bite with their razor sharp teeth. Their feeding schedule is as follows: bottle at 6am, chicken at 11am, chicken at 4pm, bottle at 5:15pm and chicken at 9pm. Their new enclosure is currently being constructed and everyone is getting involved in the building process. The bushes in front of Janice and Rusty’s house is being cleared, as this will become their new spacious home with trees and logs for them to play with.
29 OCTOBER: Here are the first photos of our Servals. Aren’t they gorgeous? We weighed them last night, and the boy is 1.685KG and the girl is 1.635KG. We are feeding them chicken three times a day and also a bottle. The boy is very sweet, affectionate and playful, the girl a little bit more feistier – but they are so cute! Both are extremely confident and not shy at all, and they are having fun exploring the restaurant in the early mornings and nights.
Volunteer Tams is loving the little Servals!
28 OCTOBER: The beautiful Servals arrived today! Woohoo..and we are pleased to say they are very good looking, healthy and happy, and have spent the mid-morning running, climbing and jumping around their new home in the restaurant. They are currently on 4 feeds a day (1 bottle and 3 feeds of chicken or beef). We love the new addition to the park!
25 OCTOBER: We are still currently waiting for the servals to arrive, hopefully by the end of the week they shall have joined our ranks. We will keep you posted!
16 OCTOBER: Janice and Rusty have purchased a breeding pair of servals this week that are 6 weeks old. We have to wait for the permit before we can bring them to the park but they are both very playful and sweet. They are eating 2 meat servings and 3 bottle servings a day.
10 SEPTEMBER: Volunteer Tomer Mason built a Monkey table for the monkeys. We’ve placed it in the Park, at the ridge of the first hill as you drive towards the lion enclosures. We are putting fruit on it and hope to attract the monkeys to this area, away from the restaurant area.
Tomer also built a platform for the Meerkats so that they can what’s going on over their wall!
6 SEPTEMBER: Our beautiful new cub kitchen is up and running. Only needs a few minor adjustments but is totally functional already. It’s the old storeroom where the umbrellas were stored. It has a sink, kettle, blender, all animal food/equipment is stored in there.
