So today, friday, was a really interesting day for me. Someone from one of the hotels called The Trust and said there was a baby Vervet monkey that looked like it had a broken arm so we went to collect it and bring it back here. It turns out it's a little girl, and a very cute one. She's very tiny, weighs less than a bag of sugar, only just off her mother. Today I was on animal care duty again so I fed and cleaned all the monkeys in the morning and in the afternoon got to go with a couple of the volunteers (one's a vet in Portugal) to the local hospital to take an x-ray of the little girls arm. There are a lot of vet clinics here but none have x-ray machines so you give the radiographer a couple of hundred shillings and he'll take the picture for you. They think she has a dislocated shoulder so we're going to call around some people here and see if any one has ever popped a monkey shoulder back in.
When we got back from the hospial she needed her bandage changed (she has a nasty cut on her arm aswell). So while I held her still Marta, the vet, changed the bandags and gave her a couple of shots. It was really amazing getting to be so close with her, literally holding her body still, holding her head and letting her squeeze my finger when she got injected. I'll try and get a picture of her tomorrow.
Tonight we're going to Club Tropicana (can you believe Wham! arn't known around here????) It's regae night, we'll see how that goes down! Tomorrow is another chill day at the spa and 3 of us have booked to go snorkeling, hopefully with dolphins, on sunday-a good weekend ahead!
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