Greetings friends and welcome to international Sea Serpent Day! We don’t actually have sea serpents at Timbavati Wildlife Park so we’re probably not going to cover too much of that. Happy day nonetheless. What we do have though is a beautiful Interaction Area and in it lies one of the crown jewels of our park, the animal nursery.
We have talked to you about the nursery but I don’t think we have dug too deep into nursery building number 2. We didn’t cover it much last year because as you can see from this week’s video, it was under construction all last year.
This year we have a newly renovated building that is open for business. The first thing I thought about when I took my cameras into the building was “my goodness it’s dark in here.” This lighting is all wrong for the look, so I went and asked our owner Alice Schoebel about the lighting. Now if you don’t know, Alice is as knowledgeable as she is kind. There isn’t an operation in the park that she doesn’t have the intimate details on. Luckily for me, this question was easily answered.
Nursery 2 was designed to be dimly lit because its intended purpose was to house the nocturnal denizens of Timbavati Wildlife Park. That’s right, our owl monkeys and our fennec foxes, fruit bats and the like all dig the dimly lit facility.
I think the best part of the facility is watching how these smaller animals all take the mouldings in the walls and turn them into comfy perches to hang out in. They find some pretty creative spaces to be in.
Well that’s all we have this week, if you haven’t been to the park yet this year, check out this week’s video where you can see a little before and after on nursery number 2.
Cheers!
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