Today was our annual staff appreciation luncheon at the zoo. The docent division provides a partly catered/partly home- cooked lunch buffet for all the zoo...
pyrpyrfect@...
Dec 10, 1999 5:43 am
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... Absolutely. I think our staff-volunteer relations at Houston Zoo are terrific. We are, by our sheer numbers (about 400 of us), encouraged by our Education...
Dale L. Martin
kg5u@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 10, 1999 7:56 am
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Hi Dale Here, at Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Mi., we have a good keeper/volunteer relationship. Also with the staff. The Zoo Director knows many of us by our...
Knitwitz@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Knitwitz@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Dec 10, 1999 3:43 pm
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Hi I am new on the list, so before I answer let me introduce myself. I am Richard a docent at the Bergen County Zoo in New Jersey and a member of the Board of...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Dec 10, 1999 1:52 pm
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... Party ... Follow-up on the Houston Zoo Docent Holiday Party. Best estimates are that about 150 people turned out for the party, Friday night. The party...
Dale L. Martin
kg5u@xxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 12, 1999 9:51 pm
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Today Memphis-based Back Yard Burgers presented the memphis Zoo with a check for $100,000, marking the completion of one year of Back Yard Burgers operation of...
pyrpyrfect@xxx.xxx
Dec 17, 1999 5:16 am
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You're correct. The food at our "Concessioner" cafe and snack bars is awful. We eat nothing but chips and ice cream. We leave the zoo and travel to a local...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Dec 17, 1999 1:03 pm
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The Philly Zoo has a McDonalds in it. With a volunteer discount you got to pay the same price as you would to any outside McDonalds. It was also a limited...
Stacey
teej@xxxxx.xxxx
Dec 17, 1999 4:12 pm
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The Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michgan has pretty good food although it is a limited menu. The usual hot dogs, polish dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, etc. ...
Knitwitz@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Knitwitz@xxxxx.xxxxxx...
Dec 17, 1999 5:03 pm
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It's been pretty quiet here lately, and I thought you'd all find this amusing.. Life in the Slow Lane ... A sloth named Herman is walking through the forest...
Stacey
teej@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 10, 2000 8:31 pm
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That was a great story. Will be posted in our docents office. Thanks Stacey. Richard...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Jan 10, 2000 11:22 pm
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Not a happy message, but something worth passing along. 25 Species of Apes Said Endangered .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Not one species of...
Stacey
teej@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 11, 2000 4:37 pm
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It is so sad. I have had the pleasure of working a research project with the Foutes and their sign language knowledgeable chimps in the state of Washington....
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Jan 11, 2000 5:55 pm
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... Wow! I read his book a few years ago. It was very interesting. Which chimps did you get to work with? (After reading his book I feel like I know some of...
Stacey
teej@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 11, 2000 6:18 pm
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I worked with Lulis, Washoe's adopted son, and Tatu, a young female. I observed how these two chimps used space and how they moved around a given space. The...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Jan 11, 2000 7:26 pm
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... Did you sign with them? (Did you know sign before hand, or did they teach you). I thought in his book he said that they tried not to sign in front of...
Stacey
teej@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 11, 2000 8:58 pm
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Stacey I did know sign language before I went, but it didn't matter. The signs they use are really simplified approximations of ASL. However, it didn't take...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Jan 12, 2000 1:18 pm
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Jambo! Extremely interesting stuff, Dan. Don't stop, please! ... Tatu = three http://www.swahili.com/pages/vocabulary/swahili-english/t.htm Moja = one ...
Dale L. Martin
kg5u@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 12, 2000 8:00 pm
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hmmmmm Well, I sure didn't describe that bit about the docent safari well.... There were only 7 of us in our van (not 50, as my statement may have implied) ...
Dale L. Martin
kg5u@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jan 12, 2000 8:15 pm
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I know ASL! I am hard of hearing anyway. ;) I haven't been volunteering at the Oregon zoo much lately. :( Right now I am battling with depression and don't...
UniqueGaI@xxx.xxx
Jan 13, 2000 2:10 am
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... My friend said that after his trip to Botswana (he loved it there. His brother was there for 2 years with the Peace Corp and he went there for his wedding...
Stacey
teej@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 13, 2000 3:52 am
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Dale Thanks so much for the Swahili lesson. I am a bit rusty. In all honesty, that would be a great language to learn. Richard...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Jan 13, 2000 12:54 pm
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Stacey That's what makes us animal people. I could never tire of seeing any animal. I lived in Florida for five years in the 60's and I used to walk around the...
Citatu1@xxx.xxx
Jan 13, 2000 1:03 pm
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When I'm at an exhibit area, Orangutan's for instance, I usually let a new group of people cycle in to the viewing area before I give a short spiel on where...
Dale L. Martin
kg5u@...
Jan 23, 2000 6:00 am
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... I guess i use the same approach as you. Excuse me, please dont do that. Depending on what the that is I will then say why they shouldn't do it. If...
Stacey
teej@...
Jan 24, 2000 12:40 am
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In a message dated 1/23/00 12:00:03 AM Central Standard Time, kg5u@... writes: << When I'm at an exhibit area, Orangutan's for instance, I usually let a...
PYRPYRFECT@...
Jan 24, 2000 1:26 am
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... From: Stacey <teej@...> To: <zoo-volunteers@onelist.com> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [zoo-volunteers] Immortalizing yourself!...
L.Torpy
lezloz@...
Jan 25, 2000 10:39 pm
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Not much has been posted lately in this space, so I thought that I would take the opportunity to fill y'all in on developments at the Memphis Zoo. I hope...
van harris
pyrpyrfect@...
Feb 25, 2000 1:54 am
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Sounds like some wonderful things are happening at Memphis. We are in the final stages of bidding on our new hospital and new Discovery/Education Center at the...
citatu1@...
Feb 25, 2000 1:15 pm
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Never have been to the Memphis Zoo, but I am gradually adding to my list of Zoos I have visited. When I attend AZAD conferences, part of the adjenda is...
