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Mass Giraffe Capture
Mass Giraffe Capture
Volunteers assist with giraffe capture while working with the game capture team. The giraffes are darted by a qualified wildlife vet before the volunteers guide them onto a truck for translocation.
Hands-on capture work
Hands-on capture work
Students at game capture get the opportunity to experience the every day workings of the team, and are afforded the opportunity to get hands on capture experience - as opposed to being only spectators!
Volunteers assist with a cheetah darting
Volunteers assist with a cheetah darting
Life in the field working alongside an experienced wildlife vet is both unpredictable and challenging
Rhino capture
Rhino capture
M99 is a powerful morphine derivative. Once sedated with M99, a rhino will sink to the ground, allowing the capture team to rope the animal and take blood and other samples.
Giraffe capture
Giraffe capture
Volunteers get up close to giraffes and gain hands-on experience in the unique game capture industry
Impala in the boma
Impala in the boma
Impala are herded into a boma before they are loaded onto a truck for relocation.
Moving lions is a skilful task
Moving lions is a skilful task
By law only a registered vet can use high scheduled drugs to immobilise animals. Volunteers learn about the drugs involved, darting techniques, and will administer low schedule drugs. Here volunteers are preparing these lions to be moved.
Darting a lioness
Darting a lioness
The darting of animals should only be carried out by skilled vets
Vets working in the field
Vets working in the field
Shimongwe Wildlife Veterinary Experience offers you the chance to work with experienced wildlife vets in the field on a variety of species
The African Buffalo
The African Buffalo
The African buffalo is a very robust species. It is up to 1.7 metres high, 3.4 meters long. While not particularly demanding with regard to habitat, they require water daily and therefore depend on perennial sources of water.
Buffalo Capture
Buffalo Capture
When animals need to be relocated, a specialised capture team comes into to do the job. This is hands-on and adrenaline fuelled work!
Video Results
Game Capture
Game Capture
A video of volunteers at the game capture team in South Africa.
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