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Great Ape Consultancy
Lorraine.Miller@GreatApeConsultancy.com
Health and safety
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Health and safety
One of the most important aspects of working with great apes is health and safety. Maintaining the safety of your visitors and staff whilst optimising animal welfare can be challenging.
At Great Ape Consultancy we can advise on safe working practices, assess standard operating procedures and offer suggestions to improve protocols for a safer working environment. We also provide staff training in safe working with great apes, via both on-site and remote sessions.
We can provide webinars and training materials to keepers working with great apes, covering health and safety in topics such as husbandry, animal transport, introductions, positive reinforcement training and close contact, basic maintenance, enrichment and tool use.
New Zealand's only gorillas
In 2014 at Orana Wildlife Park on the South Island, a new facility had been designed for the first gorillas to be brought into New Zealand. Husbandry manuals, safe working practices, standard operating procedures, health and safety protocols, staff training guides all had to be created from scratch.
- Lorraine Miller
Read the case study
Our Services
enclosure design
Advice on enclosure design and furnishing to best suit of any of the four great ape species.
Animal management
Advice on best management and husbandry practices for a range of species and different social groupings.
Staff training
Available for one on one, team or classroom style training workshops, on the job training of staff members.
Health and safety
Developing risk assessments, safe working protocols and SOPs, assessing safe working practices.
Introductions
Advice on introduction planning. Able to provide practical support when introducing individuals and staff training.
Nutrition
Nutritional advice for all four great apes, developing diet plans, transitioning to new diets, optimising diet presentation to improve  health, welfare and behaviour.
Enrichment and training
Developing and assessing enrichment programmes. Advice on training a range of behaviours, developing in-house training skills and capacity.
Animal welfare
Advice on all aspects of great ape husbandry, developing routines and improving animal welfare. Independent welfare assessment of groups or animals.
Past projects
Chimpanzee Eden - Photo: Katie Waller
Chimpanzee Eden
Moving 17 chimps to a brand new facility
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Orana Wildlife Park
Building a new gorilla habitat in New Zealand
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Bonobo group move
Moving 8 bonobos on the same day
Orangutan female - Photo: Jenny Bridges
Orangutan crate training
Crate training in 23 days
Chimpanzee training - Photo: Katie Waller
Wound management
Wound management via positive reinforcement
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Fruit free diets
Transitioning all four great apes to fruit free diets