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Animal Encounter:
PERSISTENCE AND (lots of) PATIENCE PAYS OFF WHEN TRAINING ANIMALS
What do Ivan the tiger, Dora the emu, and Enapay the otter have in common? All recently mastered a new cooperative husbandry behavior that will enhance their participation in their own healthcare!
Cooperative husbandry is the voluntary participation of an animal in its own routine care. This results in less stress to the animal when routine health checks or veterinary treatment must be administered.
Caring for an 8,000-pound animal is no small task. Providing food, water, ample space, enrichment and vet care for an elephant is, well, an elephant-sized commitment! When you multiply that elephant times six and add in age-related health issues, the commitment becomes a multi-faceted challenge to prepare for both the expected and the unexpected.
Luckily, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is up to the challenge.
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continues
global work to save wild orangutans
Two Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff members recently returned from abroad, where they encountered a live volcano while learning more about the worldwide sustainable palm oil effort.
Vice President of Development & Marketing Tracey Gazibara and Animal Care Manager Dina Bredahl said their trip to Bali for the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in November was productive, although somewhat impacted by nearby Mt. Agung, which was spewing massive amounts of volcanic ash and causing cold mud flows.
A group of ten Cheyenne Mountain Zoo teen program participants embarked on a ten-day expedition to Costa Rica on December 26. After returning on January 4, everyone was filled with ideas, jokes and memories to last forever. It was an adventurous, educational and wildly successful exploration for all involved.
With the main goals always being conservation and adventure education, this trip was filled to the brim with both!
