Today as I was walking around the Bronx Zoo, the weather was perfect and most of the animals were pretty active. I saw a lot of things today at the Bronx Zoo like the mouse house and the butterfly garden. I also saw giraffes eating from the trees, two baby peacocks walking around with their mother, sea lions, lions sleeping under the shade, Golden Lion Tamarins climbing their cage, and a White Striped Antelope chewing on a fallen peacock feather. All these things make the zoo what it is but how is that all possible? Well through Bridging the Gap I learned that the zoo is so much more than just zoo keepers and some staff; It takes a lot of work to run a zoo. As I walked around today I also noticed the staff and the different jobs at the zoo. Some examples would be staff who are selling tickets for attractions, cooks, staff working at the registers, zoo keepers, costumer service, first aid, security, but that's only what any one can obviously see. There are other jobs such as maintenance, engineering, behavior enrichment, education, zoo hospital and more. These jobs are less noticeable but just as important and the zoo would not run efficiently without them. I had a chance to talk with Don Boyer today, he works on zoo herpetology (reptiles and amphibians) and is also my mentor. He does a lot of interesting things in his career and always as a awesome story to tell about the experiences he had working for the zoo like today Don told me about how he was suppose to release Hell-benders into the wild although it was cancelled. Like Dons career, there are many other careers that people don't know the zoo has to offer, all with their own positive features and challenges.
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| Photo By: Nebraas Shahzad |
-Nebraas Shahzad
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