Limbe Wildlife Centre

Category: Anne Sofie Meilvang, endangered species | Date: Jul 28 2009 | By: limbewildlifecentre

If you visit Limbe Wildlife Centre at the moment, you will probably see two persons very busy making swings. It is volunteer Aoife who is from Ireland and our keeper Elvis who takes care of the guenons and mangabeys.

Aoife has been here for three weeks now, and she thinks that some of the monkey enclosures could use more toys. That is why she started her own little swing factory together with Elvis. Since then, nobody has seen Aoife and Elvis without a saw, wood and ropes in their hands. They have produced more than 30 swings now.  Most of the monkeys really like the swings, and enjoy playing on them.

On the picture here you see our grey cheeked mangabey Becky playing on the swing.

Here you can see Limbe Camp, one of our agile mangabeys on a swing. He was actually mostly busy peeling the bark of the wood, eating the insects under it, but that is fine too. As long as they are busy!

Best wishes,

Sofie

Tags: endangered species, mangabeys, monkeys