New Keeper

16th June 2009 - 10:40pm
 
Today Amy and I had a different keeper as ours has gone on holiday for 4 days. Therefore different enclosures to clean and different pandas to feed. It's amazing to see how animals vary so much in their personalities.
 
For instance our old pandas were Bugan and WougWoug. Bugan was the male and ate at a rate of knots, whereas WougWoug was much more laid back. The new pandas are Neenee (male) and Sui Ye (female), the male is quite energetic whereas Sui Ye doesn't really respond to being called, eats mega slowly and kept going off into daydreams so we had to clap to bring her back to her food.
 
Other than that the major activities of the day were to weigh each panda by coercing it with food onto a large metal scale. Scary to think they weigh more than double me.
 
Spent the evening playing bullshit with 2 packs of cards which makes it impossible - although I was 3rd. After 20 minutes the 3 of us who were already finished played a whole game of card golf (9 rounds, hence the name).
 
We realised that some of us knew more than others about each other so over dinner we each told our life stories in the space of two minutes each which was interesting.
 
Been absolutely pouring down tonight so hopefully bright in the morning - I need my socks to dry after washing them yesterday!

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