More than twenty years ago, a refuge for animals was started in the Limpopo province called the Moholoholo Rehabilitation Centre. Brian Jones had been taking care of animals for most of his life but saw that the ever-growing number of wounded and neglected animals in the wild demanded a team of people dedicated to the cause as well. In 1991, Brian assembled a group to run the wildlife safe house which has since cared for countless animals at risk. Besides caring for many different animal and bird species, Moholoholo has done a great deal of research to protect endangered species. Some of the most recent animals brought to the centre include a civet and a sooty tern.
A sooty tern is a sleek black and white coastal bird which usually only appears on the remote islands of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans for breeding or after a terrible storm and are therefore quite rare to find. Shockingly enough, one found his way to the Centre on the 21st of January in a very weakened state. Due to exhaustion, he couldn't fly and is believed to have flown so far inland in order to escape a storm. It's an extremely rare experience for the staff at Moholoholo to have the pleasure of caring for a sooty tern, so they did so with great enthusiasm.
Too tired to even drink water, staff had to insert a tube initially just to get some much-needed liquids into the sooty tern. The team also had to force feed him sea fish six times a day which was no easy task. The sea fish were actually provided by a man from Phalaborwa who made it possible for the tern to maintain his regular diet. Just recently, another sooty tern was discovered in quite an exhausted state in the Kruger Park. It won't be long before the two will meet. Perhaps they will become fast friends and reach peak health, so they can be found back on the sea where they're meant to be.
Many people aren't familiar with the civet which is actually cat-like in appearance and quite similar to a mongoose. Perfume and cologne businesses have spent far too long encouraging civets to be hunted for their musk which has been a key ingredient in some of the most popular scents. Fortunately, many of these companies have replaced musk with another ingredient in order to help preserve the species. In January of this year, a baby civet was taken in by the centre just six weeks after her birth. Her mother is likely to have drowned in the sudden flooding which came suddenly to the area. Just over six hundred grams, this tiny civet was desperate for some tender loving care.
After arriving at the centre, she was a bit aggressive, but it didn't take long before she began to calm down. Nicknamed "Civey" by the locals who brought her in, she is still a bit skittish around large groups of people but will become more comfortable as she matures. She was entrusted into the care of one of the Centre's staff members as well as a student named Clare who ensures Civey is bottle fed six times a day as her diet requires. Stay tuned to Moholoholo's Rehab Centre's for an update on little Civey and the two sooty terns.
A sooty tern is a sleek black and white coastal bird which usually only appears on the remote islands of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans for breeding or after a terrible storm and are therefore quite rare to find. Shockingly enough, one found his way to the Centre on the 21st of January in a very weakened state. Due to exhaustion, he couldn't fly and is believed to have flown so far inland in order to escape a storm. It's an extremely rare experience for the staff at Moholoholo to have the pleasure of caring for a sooty tern, so they did so with great enthusiasm.
Too tired to even drink water, staff had to insert a tube initially just to get some much-needed liquids into the sooty tern. The team also had to force feed him sea fish six times a day which was no easy task. The sea fish were actually provided by a man from Phalaborwa who made it possible for the tern to maintain his regular diet. Just recently, another sooty tern was discovered in quite an exhausted state in the Kruger Park. It won't be long before the two will meet. Perhaps they will become fast friends and reach peak health, so they can be found back on the sea where they're meant to be.
Many people aren't familiar with the civet which is actually cat-like in appearance and quite similar to a mongoose. Perfume and cologne businesses have spent far too long encouraging civets to be hunted for their musk which has been a key ingredient in some of the most popular scents. Fortunately, many of these companies have replaced musk with another ingredient in order to help preserve the species. In January of this year, a baby civet was taken in by the centre just six weeks after her birth. Her mother is likely to have drowned in the sudden flooding which came suddenly to the area. Just over six hundred grams, this tiny civet was desperate for some tender loving care.
After arriving at the centre, she was a bit aggressive, but it didn't take long before she began to calm down. Nicknamed "Civey" by the locals who brought her in, she is still a bit skittish around large groups of people but will become more comfortable as she matures. She was entrusted into the care of one of the Centre's staff members as well as a student named Clare who ensures Civey is bottle fed six times a day as her diet requires. Stay tuned to Moholoholo's Rehab Centre's for an update on little Civey and the two sooty terns.
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Looking to find information on wildlife rehabilitation, then visit www.moholoholo.co.za to see rescued wild animals and their rehabilitation so that they can be released back into the wild.
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