Tuesday, August 21st
Today was a pretty low-key day. I helped the volunteers weed
around the parque and paint various animal cages. I also did my first nest
excavation. After a nest is mostly hatched, you excavate the nest to see if
there are any hatchlings too weak to make it out of the nest on their own. Another
reason you excavate it is to see why some eggs didn’t hatch…it could be they
were eaten by worms, they were in infertile, etc. The last reason for
excavating is to remove all of the old eggs and bacteria so that new nests can
be placed in that spot. I was able to save a couple hatchlings that were stuck
on the bottom of the nest, which was great! I also had to open up the eggs that
didn’t hatch to see what happened. It is a smelly job, but it is interesting to
get a glimpse as to why they didn’t hatch.
Such a smelly job!
Later on, I got a migraine, so I took the night off from patrols. I really needed to get some sleep.
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