Infant Female Baboon Rescue on Lamu Island -- 25 August 2003
On Sunday and Monday of last week, Trust volunteer
Dan Armstrong travelled to Lamu on the 24th and 25th to the north coast
of Kenya to retrieve an infant yellow baboon. The Trust is
releasing her over this weekend into a local baboon troop in Diani.
She is in good health and the target local baboon troop is acting
normally around her in every expected way. Although there are
great dangers and a risk that they will not accept her, or that the
males will simply destroy her immediately as she is not theirs - we are
looking forward to a successful release on the weekend or early next
week! If the adoption is successful, this will be an important
case study for the viability of primate releases in the rehabilitation
of infants.
The release was facilitated by the
Lamu Region KWS (Kenya Wildlife Service) and local resident Kate Baraka
and was executed in a extremely rapid manner to minimise the transition
time and the re-introduction.
Waiting at
Malindi Airport
Flying to
Lamu
Lamu town
Lamu town
Our contact
Kate who facilitated
with the rescue with KWS.
Leaving Lamu
town
Taking the
baboon to the airport
across the bay.
Flying back
to Malindi.
WAKULUZU: FRIENDS OF THE COLOBUS TRUST
P.O. Box 5380, 80401 Diani Beach, Kenya
Tel/Fax: + 254 (0) 40 320 3519
Email: info@colobustrust.org
