Hungry lemurs

It is now 1:00 and I am back from my second day at the zoo.....

It was a very great day.

I parked in the lot right behind the children's zoo. I got there at about 7:45. Then I walked into the keepers' lounge.

I tried to open Elizabeth's locker, but her sweatshirt was jamming it. So someone helped me.

I waited for Alan, who came in at 8:04.

Alan separated the sheep and goats again. I cleaned up the yard and swept the cement near the barns. While I did this, Alan went to feed the other animals.

I spent a long time on this. I was still working on it when Alan came back. Then he said, "well, I really only spend two minutes cleaning the yard." Well, I did an extra special job then. Heh.

Then I started cleaning the back area. There was a lot of mess there too.

Alan told me that he needed to feed the lemurs a type of medicine that helps their digestive tracts (since Chester wasn't doing so well.)

So we went to where the lemurs are. Alan brought a bag of grapes, a syringe, and that medicine (I forget what it's called.)

We had to poke a hole in each grape and fill it with the medicine, using the syringe. Alan got this idea from the bat keeper, who used it to help the bats.

Each lemur required seven grapes to get the full dose they needed. Chester required eight.

So.... Alan said he didn't feed them this morning so that they would be hungry.

And they were hungry. While Alan prepared the grapes I went into the lemur cage and brought one lemur out at a time. (This was not easy to do as they all wanted to come out.)

They would take one grape out of my hand with their mouths. They chewed pretty quickly, stuffing the grape in their cheeks and then mashing it down with their pretty sharp teeth.

Most of them sat with me and ate them. Then I would put each one in a new pen, so that we would know who was done and who wasn't.

A couple lemurs would race out of the pen and then run right up the piping that goes up the wall and along the ceiling. I had to shoo them off with a broom.

Eventually those ones ate the grapes. One of them refused to get down, so I reached as far as I could to feed it to him.

One of them, Lillian, lost interest after the fifth grape. She just would not eat the last two. She would take one in her mouth and then drop it on the ground.

Then Alan cleaned them off a little, because some of the medicine had leaked out of the grapes. After this she ate them just fine.

The last one did the same thing, except Alan left me alone to deal with her. A girl named Amy came while we were doing this. Alan took her down to get some extra hay.

The last lemur ate all her grapes, so all them were fed and happy. Some of them wanted more, and others just didn't want to have anything to do with it.

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This whole process of feeding the lemurs took about an hour. So after that my time was up, it was 12:00.

Now I am here eating my lunch.

Alan seemed a lot less stressy today. He even made a joke. Amy sneezed while she was wrangling the hay, and Alan said, "that's why they call it hay fever." Haha.

Anyway, I don't know where my mom is... she's usually home at this time of day. I tried calling her cell phone, but she didn't answer. Oh, well.

So bye!