Tom Taylor

This week we received a phone call from a concerned local who found an infant Long-tailed Macaque who had been hit by a care and knocked unconscious.

What if I told you there is an animal on the earth that smells like hot buttered popcorn would you believe me? Yes, you did not read it wrong.

After spending many years in captivity two Large Bamboo Rat’s (Rhizomys sumatrensis) were handed over to WFFT a few days ago. We have named them Stuart and Little.

This project will be focused on giving refuge to cat species not found in Thailand and tigers from circuses in Europe, in collaboration with Stichting Leeuw in The Netherlands.

WFFT Highlights – August 2019

This week a family travelled from Bangkok to WFFT with a very young Common Squirrel monkey (Saimiri.) named ‘France’.

Did you know that macaques communicate using complex vocal and gestural signals? They vary among the species.

Early this week we received a call from a family that wanted to find a new home for their pets, two Asian small-clawed otters (Amblonyx cinerea) named Thung Ngern and Thung Thong. Early yesterday morning these lucky otters arrived at their new home.

The Asian small-clawed otter is the smallest of the 13 species of otter; with a body length around 45-61cm, weighing less than 3kg. The name comes from their tiny claws.

Every morning and afternoon, it is time for our amazing volunteers to prepare meals for over 600 animals, including 6 species of gibbon, 6 species of macaque, 2 species of bear, numerous wildcat species, civets, crocodiles, birds and more.

The purpose of this project is to provide free healthcare to domestic animals as a goodwill mission to help our local community.

Saturday night the WFFT Wildlife Rescue Team headed to downtown Petchaburi to rescue a young male long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) that had been electrocuted and fallen to the ground.