Limbe Wildlife Centre: December 2019

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Monthly Report

December 19

7. Research, Monitoring & Health Safety rules Ongoing activities □ Continued the scientifically-sound behavioural monitoring of the Mainland chimpanzees to assess the group cohesion and individual welfare before, during and after social integration of Chinoise (subadult female) □ Continued the thorough assessment of the health and welfare of rescued African Grey Parrot during rehabilitation □ Continued to build the dataset of haematological analysis performed during general health checks in order to analyse the standard values for the endangered Drill

Activity achievement □ Completed the design of the map to divide and re-enrich the large gorilla enclosure based on the behavioural data analysis, in partnership with AKONGO | Wildlife connection (www.akongo.fr)

Data analysis □ Completed the analysis of the data collected on our gorilla’s groups, in partnership with AKONGO | Wildlife connection (www.akongo.fr) (Images 24-25)

Image 24. Map of space use by Benito’s Image 25. The study was divided into group within the enclosure. Area preferred two phases. In Phase 2, the group of includes proximity to mango trees for Benito, which showed the highest level

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