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September 19

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ANIMAIL ZOO NEWS

World Rhino Day Celebration this Saturday!

Celebrate with our rhinos, Elly, Boone and Gauhati, as we observe World Rhino Day at the Zoo on September 19! Join us as we celebrate our largest Zoo inhabitants with special keeper talks and enrichment activities, dance with the Raytones, and participate in crafts and fun activities for the whole family. See you then!

Members Morning: The Zoo will open at 9 am for members on Saturday, featuring complimentary hot beverages and free carousel rides. There will be a special keeper talk at 9:30 am with Gahauti, our greater one-horned rhinoceros.

(photo by Marianne Hale)

New Season, New Wild Walk Theme!

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There’s a new season in the air, and a new theme for our noon Wild Walks! Sign up for our North American Natives tour at 12:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays to learn all about the critters on this vast continent – and meet one of them in person! You can also join us for our Fast and the Furriest tour at 10:00 am, or our Zoo Creatures Great and Small tour at 2:00 pm. You can register through the Zoo calendar (https://t.e2ma.net/click/w5etg/o330mu/4bh5ec). We also offer private tours by appointment with tailored routes! Call 415-753-7073 ext 8137 or e-mail wildwalk at sfzoo.org for more information.

Fur Ball 2015: Moonlight Safari

On Friday, September 25, Zoo II will host its annual fundraising gala, “Fur Ball: Moonlight Safari,” at the San Francisco Zoo. An estimated 300 young Bay Area professionals will enjoy an evening of specialty cocktails crafted by Campari, plentiful hors d’oeuvres, carousel rides, a fabulous silent auction, and dancing to famed 80s-and-more band “Notorious.” Don’t miss out on one of the best parties of the year! Click here to purchase tickets. (https://t.e2ma.net/click/w5etg/o330mu/k4h5ec)

Lion Cub Update

Sukari, our 13 year old lioness, and her newly born cub continue to do well.  The cub is getting stronger each day and starting to take real steps and actually walk- not just scoot around! His/ her eyes (sex still unknown) are opening up and he/she is vocal when wanting something from mom.  Staff continue to monitor them remotely via cameras in the nest box as well as one placed outside an adjacent room.  Sukari is a very protective mother and is still building her trust up even with her familiar keepers when they are near her rooms.  It will still be awhile before we even see the little one in person as we continue to work with Sukari’s comfort level during these delicate early days.

Celebrate World Rhino Day in the Classroom!

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Are you a teacher, parent, or classroom volunteer looking for a fun way to celebrate World Rhino Day? Charge on over to the San Francisco Zoo’s Teacher Resources Page (https://t.e2ma.net/click/w5etg/o330mu/gpj5ec) and download our special curriculum (https://t.e2ma.net/click/w5etg/o330mu/whk5ec); you and your students can learn all about these larger-than-life species that need our help!

(photo by Marianne Hale) 

Collaboration with Stanford University

Dr. Watters and a professor from Stanford, Dr. Joseph Garner joint taught a class on animal enrichment called “Life in the Zoo: Behavior, Welfare and Enrichment” as part of Stanford’s Sophomore College program. Twelve fantastic undergraduates from Stanford spent two weeks learning about the Zoo’s Komodo dragon, grizzly bears, and kangaroos. Students designed, built, and deployed novel enrichments for their animals. The teams came up with awesome ideas, including a new mister for the komodo dragon, kangaroo feeders run by ice timers that melt and let food out throughout the day, and a bear kibble launcher for the grizzlies. At the end of the two weeks, the class culminated in a research symposium where students presented the outcomes of their research.  The Wellness team is looking forward to expanding on the students’ ideas over the coming year!

(photo by Marianne Hale) 

Veterans Visit the Zoo

This past Wednesday we had about 400 veterans from different programs through the VA Hospitals visit the Zoo. The VFW Post 4103 from SSF hosted lunch for the group which comprised of veterans from Yountville, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, San Francisco, Livermore and Santa Clara.  Our gracious docents and volunteers assisted guests with tours and bone carts, while ARC animals were present for close encounters in the Wildlife Theatre.  Our guests thoroughly enjoyed their visit and were very grateful for the opportunity to visit the Zoo.

(Photo by May Woon)

Fun Fact: African Lions

African lions are different from other felid species in several ways: males have a distinctive mane, while in many other cat species there is little sexual dimorphism. Lions are also different from other cats in that they are a social species – they hunt and live in a ‘pride’ with a dominant male, related females and cubs. Males will also form bachelor groups. Females become sexually mature at 4 years and after a 110 day gestation period, 1-6 cubs are born. The cubs are dependent on adults until 16 months of age. While lions are carnivores and hunt mainly medium- to large-sized ungulates such as antelope and wildebeest, they have also been known to scavenge.  Females do the majority of the hunting and tend to hunt under cover of darkness, as they have very good night vision.  Panthera leo’s historic range was once across Asia and Africa, today a small population of Asiatic lions in India remain; African lions now inhibit sub-Saharan Africa and can be found on savannas of East Africa, south to the Kalahari Desert.  Lions are vulnerable due to poaching and trophy hunting, as well as conflict with farmers and ranchers.  In addition, habitat destruction and fragmentation decreases the amount of available prey and food sources.

(photo by Marianne Hale)

Heads Up: Water's Extreme Journey Closes October 4th!

Water's Extreme Journey maze transforms the visitor into a drop of water entering a watershed, an area of land where water drains and collects into a shared reservoir.  As visitors will discover, a watershed can be right in their own neighborhood, or as big as the Rocky Mountain region! 

To explore the exhibition watershed, visitors voyage through rivers, lakes, wetlands, and even their homes, eventually reaching the healthy ocean. Sound easy? Water drops face many hurdles as they interact with humans. Does the farm they encounter use pesticides? Did someone get messy changing their oil, or flush prescription drugs down the toilet? Clean choices keep our drops healthy and moving toward a clean ocean. Dirty choices send our drops down the urban storm drain to the unhealthy ocean, where they evaporate, condensate, and precipitate for another try.

Members’ Annual Meeting

September 29th – 2 pm

Osher Great Hall, Lurie Education Center

This fall, join us for our annual Member Meeting and election of directors. Please send RSVPs to annualmeeting at sfzoo.org by September 22.





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