Limbe Wildlife Centre

Category: Cameroon, Simone de Vries, drill | Date: Aug 17 2009 | By: limbewildlifecentre

Even while I was writing the blog yesterday, a drill was brought into quarantine. Ndokbangengue, or shortly Ndok, was breathing with difficulty and coughing badly. Treatment was started right away and she got her own cage next to Banyo. While Banyo seemed to get a bit more strength, Ndok was playing around a bit.

But very quickly her condition deteriorated, until the end of the day when Ndok suddenly collapsed. She was put on a drip and the whole night and following morning she was on oxigen. At 2 pm she died.

We are all very sad. We have gone through a lot with Ndok. She came to the LWC in the beginning of 2008 with a broken arm. For weeks her arm was in a cast, while one of our volunteers, Roseanna Agnew, took care of her 24 hours a day.

She grew up well, became big friends with an older female called Eyumojock. She learned the escape trick from Eyumojock, but also went in easily. Althought drills are not easy to know by name (we have 63) everybody knew Ndok. We will miss her.

Banyo is doing a little bit better than yesterday. We hope she is on the way up. These are tough times!

Best wishes,

Simone