Today was the second Harvest Festival at "Once Upon a Farm", the Memphis Zoo's agricultural exhibit area. Docents and other volunteers assisted artists and...
van harris
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Sep 5, 2000 2:11 am
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The docent council at our zoo has a Christmas party each year for members of the board. Some of us on the board find this to be unfair to the rest of the...
Sue Johnson
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Sep 10, 2000 2:26 am
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Hi Sue, Here at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Mi, we have a pot luck. with the Zoo Society cooking and furnishing the ham and turkey. All docents are invited ...
Knitwitz@...
Sep 10, 2000 3:19 am
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This week at the zoo, I heard/saw Chinese, Hindi, German, Spanish, Arabic, Hungarian and American Sign Language being used by zoo visitors. Cheryl and I are...
van harris
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Sep 10, 2000 3:28 am
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Hi Sue The Houston Zoo has a Docent Christmas party and all of the staff are invited it is a pot luck event. The Docent Council budgets moneys for security...
Tom & Liz
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Sep 10, 2000 4:11 am
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Some of us on the board find this to be unfair ... Bravo! , and so this year we are having a potluck ... Liz Turner answered most of the questions relative to...
Dale L Martin
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Sep 10, 2000 4:24 pm
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... big circle ... given, ... out of ... kind of fun ... to see ... ("oooh. ... Thanks Dale. I really like to gift idea. We do one where I work called a...
Sue Johnson
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Sep 11, 2000 4:23 am
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I agree that the staff should be invited too. We don't do enough for them, and it would be nice for everyone to mingle. Thanks, Sue ... are ... for ... the...
Sue Johnson
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Sep 11, 2000 4:26 am
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Hi Sue! At the National Aviary, since we have a small group of staff and volunteers, all are invited to attend the Christmas party. It's a chance for everyone...
avesbirder@...
Sep 12, 2000 12:28 am
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Thanks for the input. And thanks to everyone else who responded. I spoke with the docent who was selected to coordinate this event, and at the next general...
Sue Johnson
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Sep 12, 2000 2:21 am
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In a message dated 9/11/00 9:22:49 PM Central Daylight Time, russ_sue@... writes: << Thanks for the input. And thanks to everyone else who responded. I ...
pyrpyrfect@...
Sep 12, 2000 3:40 am
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Of all the duties we zoo/aquarium volunteers perform, it seems to me that the most important,especially for docents, is the interpretation of animal exhibits....
van harris
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Sep 16, 2000 2:27 am
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Just when you think that you have seen every possible stupid stunt that a zoo visitor can pull, something comes along that re-affirms your faith in the general...
pyrpyrfect@...
Sep 19, 2000 2:03 am
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A member of our education dept staff asked me to come to the zoo today to discuss our docent program and show around two visiting docents from the Central...
pyrpyrfect@...
Sep 19, 2000 2:21 am
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Not to play I can top this, but I just want to tell you that you are lucky to have gotten away with just a stern talking to... Last summer the zoo had a...
Stacey
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Sep 19, 2000 2:40 am
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I know exactly how that is, Van. I had an incident of my own on Saturday. It makes you wonder if there is a "brain check" somewhere at the entrance for all...
avesbirder@...
Sep 19, 2000 2:46 am
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Your stories of angry visitors reminds me of this one guy that was at the zoo. It's a children's zoo, so the fact that he was there alone was kind of strange...
Caprine10@...
Sep 19, 2000 3:00 am
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One of my brothers law professors did an awesome thing during a debate about public smoking. At some point the pro smoker blew smoke into his face citing his...
Stacey
teej@...
Sep 19, 2000 3:14 am
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I frimly believe that at Zoos, swimming pools and other places of recreation that adults do check their brain outside the front gate. The kids are allowed to...
Tom & Liz
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Sep 19, 2000 3:33 am
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In a message dated 9/18/00 10:30:53 PM Central Daylight Time, Caprine10@... writes: << Your stories of angry visitors reminds me of this one guy that was...
pyrpyrfect@...
Sep 19, 2000 8:56 pm
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ROFL Security? We don't have security. : ) It's a very small zoo. There are guards at night, but during the day we rely on maintainance staff....
Caprine10@...
Sep 20, 2000 12:39 am
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I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, but I also do volunteer work and The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium. The zoo had some excitement yesterday -- the birth...
Shannon Platt
avesbirder@...
Sep 21, 2000 2:12 am
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Congrats! Were these pregnancies a result of AI or do you guys have a bull? Stacey ... -- Teej http://www.panix.com/~teej...
Stacey
teej@...
Sep 21, 2000 2:29 am
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We have a bull. I believe we are one of a handful of zoos that a bull elephant. If memory serves me correctly he is 15 yrs. old. The interesting part is he a...
avesbirder@...
Sep 21, 2000 2:48 am
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That's even cooler! Heck- I'm sure the keepers like the idea of them doing it naturally then having to get involved! Is the bull intergrated with the herd or...
Stacey
teej@...
Sep 21, 2000 3:00 am
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He's only allowed to join in when a female is in heat. He's too aggressive otherwise. Last year at a behind the scenes tour, he threw a huge piece of his...
avesbirder@...
Sep 21, 2000 3:08 am
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We, here at Potter Park Zoo, Lansing, Mi had a special visitor last week. Jack Hanna from the Columbus Zoo came to a fund raiser luncheon, brought 2 8- week...
Knitwitz@...
Sep 21, 2000 3:47 am
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... That's cool. He's fun to watch. Did he get himself into any predicaments? I've noticed on his shows in the last couple of years, that he seems to put ...
Dale L Martin
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Sep 21, 2000 4:24 am
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No predicaments for Jack Hanna this time. He was having some back problems and was due to fly back immediately to a hospital for some kind of treatments. But...
Knitwitz@...
Sep 21, 2000 3:05 pm
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Hello everyone, Our zoo snoozes this year will be winding up in the mornings with a tour of the nutrition center. As training, we took a tour ourselves this...
