The weather here is extremely hot and humid at the moment, and as I type the rain has just started to come down, with huge peals of thunder and flashes of lightening. Its a great view from our apartment!
We've been working very hard for the past few days, lots of meetings and paperwork, but had a day working out in the zoo today on completing the construction of and furnishing the new Coati enclosure. We collected branches and logs this morning and spent this afternoon shovelling about 15 tonnes of soil into the enclosure. I have blisters all over my hands - I hope the coatis appreciate my pain! We have also resurrected the coati hammock we built last year, which the coatis really liked last time, so hopefully they will again.
We will finish the enclosure tomorrow, in time for the bank holiday weekend, which is the start of the Zoo summer season. Hooray - 4 day weekend !
Anyway, here are some pics of the baby tigers in their outdoor enclosure:
And we found this lovely mother and baby red squirrel zooming about by one of the lakes. The mother was "chattering" away at the baby while we took photos, and then tried to jump into Steve's backpack!
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