Wild Futures - Newsletter Summer 2019

Staff Profile – Kim Nicholson
Chico’s
Coriander
and Lime
Houmous
Ingredients
• 150g dried chickpeas
• 125g fresh coriander leaves
• 2 tablespoons tahini
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1 teaspoon lime zest
• 1/4 teaspoon coriander
Method
1. Soak dried chickpeas
overnight in a large bowl
filled with 300 ml of water.
2. Boil chickpeas until soft.
3. Drain and rinse chickpeas.
4. Add chickpeas and all of
the other ingredients into a
food processor.
5. Blend for 2 to 3 minutes
until smooth.
6. Check the taste and, if
needed, add more seasoning
to achieve the desired flavour.
7. Serve with your favourite
veggies or pita bread!
Enjoy!
Recipe taken from
www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/
recipes/coriander-houmous
How did you first get involved with
Wild Futures?
I have always had an interest in animal
care, particularly primates, and so I
focused my studies around this. I first
volunteered at the Monkey Sanctuary in
2012 for a five-week placement. I fell in
love with the Sanctuary and decided to
do the year-long internship in primate
care after finishing my studies. Then, in
2015, I got offered a job at Wild Futures
as a full-time primate carer.
What is your role?
Kim Nicholson
I am a primate carer, working with
the capuchins, Barbary macaques and
woolly monkeys. My day-to-day work
includes feeding the monkeys and
cleaning their enclosures, conducting
and observing socialisations within
the capuchin groups, giving out
medication to the monkeys who
require it, giving talks to volunteers,
giving talks to the public during our
open season, educational workshops,
making enrichment for the monkeys,
and assisting in maintaining and reroping
enclosures.
Feeding
What challenges have you faced during
your time at Wild Futures?
Every morning the monkeys all get a
ball of porridge that includes all of their
daily vitamins within, but even after
four years here at the Sanctuary I can
never seem to get the quantities right
when cooking it and it always come out
either too sticky or rock hard!
What inspires you?
I find interacting with the visitors here
on site very inspirational, whether they
are general public visiting us for the
day or an educational group or our
own volunteers; many people have
little knowledge of the issues here in
the UK regarding primate welfare, and
being able to educate and inform them
through our talks, and the positive
response we often receive, is very
inspirational.
Of course, seeing the change in our
rescued primates as they go from
individuals with physical and social
issues to happy and healthy individuals
in stable social groups is really
motivating.
Making enrichment
What do you hope to achieve in
the future?
I hope to continue working with
rescued primates, but also to improve
my carpentry and maintenance skills,
which is another passion of mine. I
would also love to visit other animal
sanctuaries all over the world, to
volunteer and see the fantastic work
that they do!
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Enrichment Facts:
We always need to make sure that our
monkeys have lots of things to do and
think about - anything that helps them
do this is called ‘enrichment’.
There are lots of ways of providing
enrichment - from hiding food to putting
new logs in their enclosures for them to
climb and explore!
Enrichment helps keep monkeys living as
natural a life as possible, even though
they are in captivity.
Without enrichment, monkeys in captivity
can become stressed and bored, so
enrichment is very important to keep
their minds and bodies busy and happy!
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