The first day of work

This morning, March 28th, at eight o'clock we went to the office to get some info about our day. Whilst one of us was taking care of all sorts of primates, the other one took a stroll into town and got us monthly buss-tickets.

The morning in town was interesting, the thing to remember is "8A; bad for you, use only 8". So maybe you can guess that buss number 8 goes into town from the zoo and back again. The town was certainly more colorful than back home; the buildings were painted things like bright yellow or green... And there was vegetation and trees everywhere and everything was blooming in the colors of spring.

In the afternoon we met up again after lunch and continued with the monkeys together. The monkey-keeper spoke very little English ( the only words she spoke in English were "male", "female", "baby", "child", "family", "feed" and "clean" she also used numbers 1-10 using her fingers to demonstrate ), so body language proved valuable. The woman explained much about different species and their names in Hungarian, but as you can guess, we understood none of it. So what we actually did was feeding and cleaning the enclosures of monkeys. The most memorable moments were hand feeding ring-tailed lemurs ( mom carrying two babies in the picture ) and orangutans; named Tigu ( in the picture ), Bunga and Damai.