| Item |
Description |
Use |
Non-toxic paints
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- Any colour
- As many as possible
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- Use to paint enrichment material like piñata, boxes or paper mache’.
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Pressure washer
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- Cleaning exhibit area (pond, water moat)
- Cleaning night dens
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Brush cutter
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- Brush cutter with nylon head
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- To cut grass in exhibit area
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Machete
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- Use to cut leaf, branches and banana tree for enrichment
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PVC Pipe
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- Make feeder tube and other enrichment activities.
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Barrel
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- Water barrel or beer barrel
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- Enrichment for elephant
- Nest or hammock for the orangutan
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Hand drill
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- Various size of hand drills
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- To make various size of holes in logs for enrichment
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Insects
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- Various kind of insect like crickets, grasshopper, beetles.
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- Enrichment for bears, small mammals, orang-utans and birds
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Bobbins
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- Size 15 inches diameter, 18 inches long
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- For bears or tiger enrichments
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Heavy duty balls
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- For tiger or elephant enrichments
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Sponge cake mould
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- Any size between 16” – 22”
- Metal cake mould with a hole in the middle
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- For enrichment
- To make ice blocks for animals
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Plastic container with
lid and lock clip  |
- Any size with minimum of 2ft width x 3ft length x 2ft deep.
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- For storage
- To store enrichment tools and materials
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Gardening shears (large)
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- For enrichment activities
- To collect leaves for animals’ food and browse materials
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Gardening shears (small)
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- Standard size or bigger
- Preferable made of stainless steel (avoid rust)
- Easy to operate and safe
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- For enrichment activities
- To collect leaves for animals’ food and browse materials
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Durable blender
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- Any kind of blender (preferable one with a lid) that is able to blend various fruits, leaves and nuts
- Bigger is better!
- Easy to operate
- Safe
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- For enrichments
- To make puree of fruits, leaves or nuts for animal consumption
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Wheel barrow
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- High durability
- Any size; bigger is better
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- For enrichment activities
- To transfer enrichments materials in bulk such as 20 pumpkins, leaves, twigs etc
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Fire hose
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- High durability
- Used fire hoses are very most welcome (let’s recycle!!)
- Made of canvas or polyester
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- For enrichments
- To make hammocks for great apes and primates
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Long neck swivel shears
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- Preferable made of stainless steel
- Easy to operate and safe
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- For enrichments
- To provide great apes and other primates young leaves/ shoots which are located at the tip of a tree
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Thick polyester rope
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- Preferable in dark colors
- Minimum thickness is 3 inches
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- For enrichments
- To promote brachiating activities for apes and primates in outdoor and indoor enclosure
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