Guest guest Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 Daily animal shows soon at Wildlife Park 13 October, 2007 Kota Kinabalu: The Lok Kawi Wildlife Park will be adding a new programme for visitors by the middle of next month. According to Wildlife Department Senior Veterinarian, Dr Sen Nathan, the Park is abuzz with daily training lessons now being given to a handful of birds, orang-utan and even snakes to prepare them for daily shows at a special stage within the park. The Wildlife Department is now targeting to prepare the animals to take centre-stage by mid November for simple half-hour shows to add more attraction to the Park, he said. At the moment, however, the public is invited to watch the daily " interactive " training sessions as part of the training to get the animals used to the presence of large audiences. Consultant, Wild Concepts International, is overlooking the preparation of the animals for the presentations which include birds of prey swooping over the heads of the audiences and orang-utan peeling coconut husks. Manager Shamima Rafi, who oversees the training programme, said all the animals were " auditioned " from within the Park itself based on their potential as performers. " At the same time, we are also helping the Park staff to handle the animals for such shows, " she said, adding so far among the key performers are a couple of hornbills, a brahminy kite and rufus bellied eagle along with two orang-utans and two parrots. " Once we start the daily presentations, it will be in the morning and afternoon. What we are doing now is to train them according to the fixed time which are normally during their meals, " Shamima said. A group from Universiti Malaysia Sabah was given a preview to one such session where they got to see raptors, parrots and the orang-utan strut their stuff. I have also found this and photos to go with it: Other visitors also had a fun time as they were allowed hold hornbills on their hands and some carried a baby proboscis monkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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