Monday, 3 December 2012

Sable antelope


Oh boy. Ok I'm getting behind. It seems like not a whole lot changes around here and there hasn't been much to write about. But I guess there's a few things to talk about. A few weeks ago, Mylon and I went to our neighbour's place, who own a game park. They have many different animals, including sable. Here's a picture of them. Also, a picture of two male sables fighting over the ladies. It was pretty neat to see! And we weren't far away!




Anyways. So on this particular day, we took a day off school to help with capturing the sables for transfer. So there was a vet driving around shooting tranquilizers into the sables. Then a group of workers from the farm would pick them up and put them in the back of a safari-type vehicle, and they brought the animal to the transport. All together, they would lift the animal, put it in a compartment and then I would scan the tag, and Mylon and I both injected the sables in the butt full of sedatives. They had a long drive ahead of them. Here's us and our tools :)



We are so lucky that we live close to these wonderful people. We get to try new things that we would never otherwise dream of doing. It's so neat to work beside these animals.





I will write another blog very shortly about other things. Take it easy!

And Happy December!

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