Wild Futures - Newsletter Summer 2019
Monkey Sanctuary Update, Marmoset Story, Overseas Support and more…
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Staff Profile – Kim Nicholson<br />
Chico’s<br />
Coriander<br />
and Lime<br />
Houmous<br />
Ingredients<br />
• 150g dried chickpeas<br />
• 125g fresh coriander leaves<br />
• 2 tablespoons tahini<br />
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice<br />
• 1 teaspoon lime zest<br />
• 1/4 teaspoon coriander<br />
Method<br />
1. Soak dried chickpeas<br />
overnight in a large bowl<br />
filled with 300 ml of water.<br />
2. Boil chickpeas until soft.<br />
3. Drain and rinse chickpeas.<br />
4. Add chickpeas and all of<br />
the other ingredients into a<br />
food processor.<br />
5. Blend for 2 to 3 minutes<br />
until smooth.<br />
6. Check the taste and, if<br />
needed, add more seasoning<br />
to achieve the desired flavour.<br />
7. Serve with your favourite<br />
veggies or pita bread!<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Recipe taken from<br />
www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/<br />
recipes/coriander-houmous<br />
How did you first get involved with<br />
<strong>Wild</strong> <strong>Futures</strong>?<br />
I have always had an interest in animal<br />
care, particularly primates, and so I<br />
focused my studies around this. I first<br />
volunteered at the Monkey Sanctuary in<br />
2012 for a five-week placement. I fell in<br />
love with the Sanctuary and decided to<br />
do the year-long internship in primate<br />
care after finishing my studies. Then, in<br />
2015, I got offered a job at <strong>Wild</strong> <strong>Futures</strong><br />
as a full-time primate carer.<br />
What is your role?<br />
Kim Nicholson<br />
I am a primate carer, working with<br />
the capuchins, Barbary macaques and<br />
woolly monkeys. My day-to-day work<br />
includes feeding the monkeys and<br />
cleaning their enclosures, conducting<br />
and observing socialisations within<br />
the capuchin groups, giving out<br />
medication to the monkeys who<br />
require it, giving talks to volunteers,<br />
giving talks to the public during our<br />
open season, educational workshops,<br />
making enrichment for the monkeys,<br />
and assisting in maintaining and reroping<br />
enclosures.<br />
Feeding<br />
What challenges have you faced during<br />
your time at <strong>Wild</strong> <strong>Futures</strong>?<br />
Every morning the monkeys all get a<br />
ball of porridge that includes all of their<br />
daily vitamins within, but even after<br />
four years here at the Sanctuary I can<br />
never seem to get the quantities right<br />
when cooking it and it always come out<br />
either too sticky or rock hard!<br />
What inspires you?<br />
I find interacting with the visitors here<br />
on site very inspirational, whether they<br />
are general public visiting us for the<br />
day or an educational group or our<br />
own volunteers; many people have<br />
little knowledge of the issues here in<br />
the UK regarding primate welfare, and<br />
being able to educate and inform them<br />
through our talks, and the positive<br />
response we often receive, is very<br />
inspirational.<br />
Of course, seeing the change in our<br />
rescued primates as they go from<br />
individuals with physical and social<br />
issues to happy and healthy individuals<br />
in stable social groups is really<br />
motivating.<br />
Making enrichment<br />
What do you hope to achieve in<br />
the future?<br />
I hope to continue working with<br />
rescued primates, but also to improve<br />
my carpentry and maintenance skills,<br />
which is another passion of mine. I<br />
would also love to visit other animal<br />
sanctuaries all over the world, to<br />
volunteer and see the fantastic work<br />
that they do!<br />
Spot the Difference<br />
There are 6 to find!<br />
Enrichment Facts:<br />
We always need to make sure that our<br />
monkeys have lots of things to do and<br />
think about - anything that helps them<br />
do this is called ‘enrichment’.<br />
There are lots of ways of providing<br />
enrichment - from hiding food to putting<br />
new logs in their enclosures for them to<br />
climb and explore!<br />
Enrichment helps keep monkeys living as<br />
natural a life as possible, even though<br />
they are in captivity.<br />
Without enrichment, monkeys in captivity<br />
can become stressed and bored, so<br />
enrichment is very important to keep<br />
their minds and bodies busy and happy!<br />
Colour Me<br />
Woolly Monkey<br />
Word Search<br />
WORD SEARCH ENRICHMENT<br />
K J L Z X S U S T C G R T U T<br />
V G P M J P E P C X A R J U V<br />
C J C F D H E A H T R P N D F<br />
K E L R C C V A F J L I R N L<br />
I V D N L U E J N F I H N E Q<br />
Q Q A B O T T L E U C V A A Y<br />
N R Z O Q T N L S S T V L N B<br />
B X G E H Y G E P O E F A X C<br />
E N O E L L R L C S P K W G C<br />
Z Z H W G S Q K H D F T K N Y<br />
E W J B R B T C F V E U I P S<br />
H X U U T T R H J W P S B U Y<br />
Q K O N S S A R G W O V Z N K<br />
X X I B S H D R F Q R U X E W<br />
F M U F V E J H P H E R Y P G<br />
BOTTLE<br />
BOX<br />
BRANCHES<br />
GARLIC<br />
GRASS<br />
LEAVES<br />
MINT<br />
PEANUT<br />
ROPE<br />
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