Haha! That's so weird, I'm the 5-day keeper for the Troos! I kinda bounce all over (I'm a night keeper) so I get to have relationships with a lot of the critters, but Wantok is probably my favorite.
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Oh of course! Especially at the larger zoos that have large research divisions etc. They article was talking about zoo keeping specifically, which is what I was addressing in my comment, but I could've been specific :) I actually am very interested in exotic nutrition, and am looking at that for when my body can't…
Wantok, the female tree kangaroo :)
I'm a keeper (not pandas, other cuties though). My zoo requires a bachelor of science and I think two years of animal handling experience. Most of the new keepers we've had in the two years I've been there have been summer interns. Most people are hired after they work as a temp and go over their hours and are pushed…
Since PMS got brought up... Friday was my cry-at- the-drop-of-a-hat day, yesterday was my I'll-cut-you-if-you-so-much-as-look-at-me-wrong day, and today was clumsy day. So far I've: swung myself into the backhoe bucket, and I now have a raised, hard, hot-to-the-touch bruise; scraped my head twice on tree kangaroo…
I had an abnormal pap in February; my doctor had me come back shortly after for a colposcopy - she only dyed my cervix and looked at it with these weird binocular-looking things. She did not take a biopsy because it was such a small abnormality. I had to go back at the end of August for another one. Same procedure and…
I work at a zoo and you would not believe how many people let/encourage their children to feed the squirrels. Do they not realize that they have diseases?! And their bites are nasty even when they don't have rabies?! These are the same people who Purell their kids head to toe every ten minutes. I just don't understand.
Pudu are the smallest deer in the world. They're from South America, mostly Chile and Peru. I have tons of pics because I take care of them five days a week (I'm a zookeeper).
This is my first SNS post! I don't have anything much to contribute but I do have a cute animal pic: that's Penny, a baby pudu, at about 3 weeks old. Everyone enjoy!
I'm in Detroit, not creepy at all! Did your hands smell like giraffe for the rest if the day? Whenever I give our male chest scratches (that's the only part of him I can reach haha) my hands smell like giraffe for HOURS no matter how many times I wash them or what kind of soap I use!
So glad you got to see what keepers do! Although most of the time when guests ask me about how cool my job is my immediate response is "well, I clean up a lot of poo and I'm either too hot or too cold..." But yes! We love our animals!! It makes me so mad when people make comments, usually via FB, about our zoo being a…
I made so many ice treats this week! Unfortunately all the videos I have from the critters enjoying them are from areas I'm not allowed to make public :( You haven't seen cute til you've seen an aardvark consuming an ice treat!
This is our newest southern pudu!
I absolutely CANNOT eat yogurt with a plastic spoon. Once I've put the spoon in my mouth and eaten the yogurt I can still see streaks of saliva/yogurt on the spoon and it just squicks me out. You can't really see it with a metal spoon (even though I know its still got to be there). There is nothing anyone can say to…
Im not familiar with the incidents that you are referring to, but as someone who works with exotics, it's not like taking care of a cat, even a feral cat. Especially as far as vet care is concerned, sometimes we just can't know what's wrong. Like with domesticated animals vets have to make diagnoses from visible…
I shop at Kroger (in Michigan) and they have bread with no HFCS. It's the Kroger brand 100% whole wheat bread, and says right in the front of the bag "NO high fructose corn syrup." It's also not in the ingredient list. Last week I paid $1.99 for it, it's usually on sale for a dollar though. This is the only bread I've…
I rarely comment, just scroll through the comments and giggle at the funny posts; I have to say something today though: the use of "soda" is killing me you guys. You bake with soda, you drink pop. Jeesh :D
I wish more men would just assume they should use one; my most recent sex buddy just whipped a condom out and wrapped up, no discussion needed. Which was great, and I told him so, because it usually seems like a ten minute discussion that I don't particularly want. I want to get to the good stuff, not talk about our…