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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
Meet the Aquarium Director |
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Meet the Aquarium Director - January, 2010 - Vicki Wawerchak, Santa Monica Pier
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Name: Vicki Wawerchak
Actual title: Aquarium Director
Name of your aquarium: Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, Heal the Bay's marine education facility
Location: Santa Monica, California, USA
URL for your facility: www.healthebay.org/smpa
Number of species at your facility: approximately 100
Your favorite critter at the facility: Wow that is a tough one as it changes constantly, but right now I really enjoy our newly hatched swell sharks. I don't think there is anything cuter!
Total number of animals or fish at your facility: approximately 1,000
Number of visitors annually: 85,000 (15,000 of those are students through our field trip education program)
Number of employees: 11
Number of volunteers: 150
Annual budget: 1 million
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Meet the Zoo Director |
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Meet the Zoo Director - January, 2010 - Jim Breheny, Bronx Zoo
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Name: Jim Breheny
Actual title: Wildlife Conservation Society Senior Vice President of Living Institutions and Director of the Bronx Zoo
Name of your zoo: Bronx Zoo
Location: Bronx, New York, USA
URL for your facility: www.bronxzoo.com
Number of species at your facility: 618
Your favorite critter at the facility: Male Nile Crocodile in the Madagascar! exhibit
Total number of animals or fish at your facility: 6,624
Number of visitors annually: 2 million
Number of employees: 564
Number of volunteers: Approximately 210
Annual budget: FY 2009 = $60,986,060
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FUN STUFF
Test Your Zoo and Aquarium Specie IQ
How much do you know about Clouded Leopards?
1. What ability do clouded leopards have that almost no other cats possess?
A. They can hang by their tails.
B. They produce high frequency sounds only they can hear to communicate.
C. They can run down a tree head-first.
D. All of the above.
2. Clouded leopards are considered:
A. "big cats" like lions and tigers, because they roar
B. "small cats" like servals and ocelots, because they purr
C. neither "big" nor "small" cats, they are considered somewhere in the middle and make a number of vocalizations
D. None of the above
3. Like all cats, clouded leopards have a 'tapetum lucidum', which is:
A. a layer of reflective tissue on the eye to improve their night vision.
B. webbing between the claws to help them land on their feet.
C. a coating on the whiskers to make them sensitive to vibrations.
D. a rough patch on the tongue to assist with grooming.
4. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists clouded
leopards as endangered but states that actual populations numbers are difficult
to determine due to:
A. the shyness of the species.
B. the remote and heavily forested habitat in which they live.
C. the often unstable political history of much of their range.
D. All of the above
5. Young clouded leopards are called:
A. pups
B. cubs
C. kits
D. cloudies
6. In terms of size,
A. males weigh about 15 more pounds than females.
B. females weigh about 10 more pounds than males.
C. males weigh about 5 more pounds than females.
D. males and females are about the same size.
7. Clouded leopards are in decline because of:
A. poaching for their furs
B. clear-cutting of much of their forest habitat
C. illegal hunting for their teeth and bones for traditional medicine
D. All of the above.
8. DNA comparisons suggest that the clouded leopard is most closely related to:
A. tigers
B. cougars
C. African leopards
D. the extinct saber-toothed cat
9. Clouded leopards are from:
A. Central South America (Bolivia, Chile and Argentina)
B. Southeast Asia (Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia)
C. Eurasia (Scandinavia and the Ukraine)
D. the rainforests of central Africa
Clouded Leopard questions and answers provided by Chris Kline, Nashville Zoo Docent Coordinator. Photo credit: Pete Meenen
Answers: http://www.zandavisitor.com/
page-3851-Test_Your_Zoo_and_Aquarium_IQ
Fun item from Discovery
Satellite photo showing sharks in the lagoon with swimmers. You have to keep clicking the image to reach the submerged photo.
http://www.australiancoastalwatch.com.au/
index.php/news/bnshark14432tx.article.html
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