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eNews letter October 1, 2008
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Aquarium News Three Aquatic Babies at Marineland St. Augustine, FL - Marineland is pleased to announce the birth of three dolphin calves, which are welcome additions to the previous population of eleven animals. One female and two male calves made their debut to the public during the months of June and July after a twelve month gestational period. Visitors have been delighted to observe their diminutive size and witness their antics. The Dolphin Conservation Center now houses and cares for animals of a very broad age range. In addition to the calves and others, it is home to Nellie, the world's oldest dolphin in human care, born at Marineland?s oceanarium 55 years ago. Dale Schmidt Leaving Oregon Coast Aquarium to Become a Buckeye
Nandi's Transitional Period at Sea World's uShaka Marine World Theme Park
Pacific White-sided Dolphins Can Be Observed From This Atlantic Deck Mystic, Conn. - The newly constructed Gurdon and Kathy Wattles Marine Mammal Observatory overlooks Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration's Aquatic Animal Study Center. The study center is the site of the aquarium?s animal health clinic, research laboratory and the kitchen where all the food for the animals is prepared.
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| Zoo News Santa Barbara Zoo Visitors Can Now Tour With a Zoo Ranger Visitors to what is known as "one of the world's most beautiful zoos" will have something new to enjoy amongst the 500 animals and lush botanic gardens that the Santa Barbara Zoo boasts. The zoo has just introduced Zoo Ranger™, a self-guided multimedia tour device that gives visitors a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo that's the closest thing to a personal tour with a zookeeper.
AZA Reaccredits Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Rachael Ray's Van Was Not Picking Up Food for Her Cooking Show at Reptiland Allenwood, PA - Rachael Ray is best
known for her wildly successful career as an iconic Food Network
television show host. However, her resume does not stop here. She is
also a bestselling cookbook author and editor-in-chief of her own
lifestyle magazine.
Thermal Art Show Arriving at Paignton Zoo
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"The Rosamond Gifford Zoo was granted AZA
accreditation because it meets high standards in every aspect of its
operations," said AZA President and CEO Jim Maddy. "Syracuse
should be proud to have one of the top zoos in North America as a
valuable community asset."
| Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News Meet the Director We have added a new feature to our web site and eNewsletter; our "Meet the Director" profiles. Each month we will introduce the men and women running the zoos and aquariums. It will provide the public with some insight into the diversity of the facilities and the people running them. On the first of each month a new zoo and aquarium director will appear. The profiled directors will also appear in our eNewsletter. Web site If you have not yet checked out our reformatted home page, today is a good time to do it. Go to http://zandavisitor.com. We have divided our news, events, and items of interest section into three sections, North America, Europe, and World. The articles are displayed with the most recent posts appearing at the top of each group.
Meet The Aquarium Director - October - Jon Dohlin, New York Aquarium
Meet The Zoo Director - October - Rick Schwartz, Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
FUN STUFF Children's Craft Corner: Materials needed: Jokes: A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten-foot fence. He was out the next morning, just roaming around the zoo. A twenty-foot fence was put up. Again he got out. When the fence was forty feet high, a camel in the next enclosure asked the kangaroo, "How high do you think they'll go?" The kangaroo said, "About a thousand feet, unless somebody locks the gate at night!" Gorilla Joke A three-year-old boy fell eighteen feet into a zoo enclosure containing seven gorillas. He was immediately rescued, not by zookeepers, but by one of the animals. The 150 lb. female gorilla picked up the unconscious form of the boy and laid it at a door to be easily retrieved to by zookeepers. This cross-species rescue has resulted in thousands of dollars in donations to the zoo. It is perhaps because of these donations that zookeepers have kept quiet about one vital detail, a hastily scrawled note tucked in the boy's collar, "Thanks; but we prefer fruit." Monkey Grandpa Joke Once upon a time, there lived a poor hat seller in a
small village in India. He earned his livelihood stitching hats and
selling them in the neighboring villages. Once when going to another
village through a forest, he fell asleep under a tree. When he woke up,
he was surprised to find his basket empty and all the hats missing. Then
he noticed a troop of monkeys sitting in the tree wearing his hats. He
came up with a brilliant idea to retrieve his hats. He lifted the hat on
his head and threw it to the ground. Out of their aping habits the
monkeys followed suit. The hat seller then collected all the hats and
triumphantly proceeded to the market. Please Recycle Do not print, discard and throw our email in your trash bin. Instead, please forward this email to all of your friends so they may obtain their own subscription at: enewssubscription Zoo and Aquarium Visitor
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