Species care log and workbook.

Species care (4 half weeks)

Workbook-1.5

The reason why different animals havedifferent types of diets-is because there is some factors such as

• Age
• sex
• size
• day/night animal (owls/monkeys)
• sick
• diarrhea

baby animals tend to get smaller portions more often trough the day and at night time. Where older(adolesent/adults) animals get bigger portions less often trough the day and night time..

Thats because younger animals needs more nutrition more often to get their organs,muscles and bones to function,grow and develope correctly.

The diets also depends on stock.

 Diets also change a lot of the time to make sure the animal gets nutrition,roughness and also sometimes a treat-Vervet Monkeys likes fruit but after a while you need to get something salty in there for iron purposes where you can put in nuts etc.

 Some of their favorite foods are sweet potatoes, corn, cucumbers, peanuts and fruits such as guava, cherries, papayas, mangos and bananas.

For a little roughness we will give them a ltlle scoop of ''boskos'' wich is only a mixture of grass and lucern wich gives them rougness and salt in their diets. 

When animals get older and get into their adult hood you usually wean off their milk(giraffe)

Thats when they get a certain amount of milk and the rest gets filled up with water. This procces should be done gradually so that the animal can get used to the process and the body could adapt to the change.

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Bushbaby's reason for different feeding times-

Bush baby's are nocturnal animals(activity during the night and sleeping during the day) Nocturnal animals generally have highly developed senses of hearing and smell, and specially adapted eyesight

Bush baby's feed during the night so we will feed them a little portion at day time and then again bigger portions at night time because in nature they will feed at night time and rest during the day because they are more active at night than at night time(nocturnal) wich consists of a small portion of nuts and seeds and also a porion of fruit jogurt.They also require chopped fresh fruit and vegetables, assorted live food such as crickets, mealworms, locusts and wax moths,wich they can also catch at night time.

2.11)

Different food supplements-
Denkavit-Is a milk replacer for herbivores.

Esbilac-Is a milk replacer for carnivores. In the form of powder and gets mixed with warm water and is prefered to be fed to animal immediately after being mixed.

Predator powder- Its a powder that gets sprinkeld over meat wich replaces nutrients that gets lost when meat is freezed and defrosted again..Difinetaly a MUST HAVE in a rehabilitation centre.

Protexin- Help the digestive system recover from any bacteria in digestive system.