Husbandry Internship

INTERNSHIP - Veterinary / Animal Science / Wildlife Biology / Wildlife Management

• Game capture: Help with game capture 
  
• Injured animals: Help treat and look after the sick and wounded animals
  
• Clinic and Laboratory: Help in the clinic & lab with the work that is being processed at that time, like DNA samples
  
• Administration: Help with day to day administration
  
• Clinic: Cleaning of the clinic, equipment
  
• Game Count: Herbivores of all sizes are an integral part of African ecosystems. It is creatural to understand local ungulate population dynamics and migrations to ensure enough water supply.  At the same time, ungulate populations need to be assessed against the available vegetation to avoid damage to the ecosystem, for example from overgrazing. The volunteers will participate in regular game counts on either horseback, in the hide at the waterhole or by car to assist these monitoring efforts.  Muller Stud is home to large herds of Oryx (gemsbok), Kudu, Eland, Sable, Water Buck, Springbuck and many more, but also contains fewer known species such as the Dik-Dik, Klipspringer etc.  Ostrich populations will also be counted.
  
• Camera Traps: This resource is also vital to the reserve and helps with identification as well as continuous monitoring of wildlife populations we also rely on motion-triggered camera traps.  Because the cameras record data 24/7 and every day of the year, they often capture information that humans might have missed. The cameras are non-selective and therefore capture data on all wildlife that pass in front of them, be they carnivores, herbivores, birds or others. This helps the researchers assess which species are present, and where they are most active, especially for animals that are usually very cryptic or entirely nocturnal such as the Hyena’s, Cheetahs and even the Bush babies. The cameras are non-invasive and sometimes record interesting behavioral data that we would otherwise have no access to. Volunteers will help set cameras in the field (for example at water points, cheetah marking trees, caves etc.), maintain them (refresh batteries and memory cards) but also go through the abundance of images to assess and structure the data recorded.

We usually start at about 07:00 am and finish around 17:00 pm. But it all depends on what is happening on the day. 2hr lunch break 

I your free time there is various things to do, on and of the farm. On the farm, go for a walk, bird watching, swimming.  Off the farm, go on safari/tour and explore the country, Etosha National Park is just around the corner