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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2084, 2, '2010-09-09 07:45:30', '2010-09-09 12:45:30', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2011</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the <em>Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</em>, <em>The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</em>, <em>The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</em>, <em>Lifetime Achievement Award (LA)</em>, the <em>Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award</em>, <em>The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</em>, <em>The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</em>, <em>The Certificate of Merit in Conservation (CMC)</em>, and the <em>Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</em>.\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the 2011 AAZK National Conference in San Diego, CA. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May 2011</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). Some categories may include monetary awards.\r\n\r\n<strong>Award Nominations should be submitted to:</strong>\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline for Nominations is 1 May 2011</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lifetime-achievement-la-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lifetime Achievement (LA) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lee-houts-excellence-in-enrichment-lhee-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment (LHEE) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-for-zoo-keeper-education-cmze/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-excellence-in-exhibit-design-renovation-ceer/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/mazuri-animal-nutrition-award-mana/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/jean-m-hromadka-aazk-excellence-in-animal-care-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2010_awards.pdf">2010 Award Recipients</a>\r\n</strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-09-09 07:45:30', '2010-09-09 12:45:30', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-43/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1730, 2, '2010-07-21 07:22:58', '2010-07-21 12:22:58', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2011</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the <em>Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</em>, <em>The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</em>, <em>The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</em>, <em>Lifetime Achievement Award (LA)</em>, the <em>Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award</em>, <em>The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</em>, <em>The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</em>, <em>The Certificate of Merit in Conservation (CMC)</em>, and the <em>Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</em>.\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the 2011 AAZK National Conference in San Diego, CA. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May 2011</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). Some categories may include monetary awards.\r\n\r\n<strong>Award Nominations should be submitted to:</strong>\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline for Nominations is 1 May 2011</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lifetime-achievement-la-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lifetime Achievement (LA) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lee-houts-excellence-in-enrichment-lhee-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment (LHEE) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-for-zoo-keeper-education-cmze/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-excellence-in-exhibit-design-renovation-ceer/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/mazuri-animal-nutrition-award-mana/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/jean-m-hromadka-aazk-excellence-in-animal-care-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a>\r\n</strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-07-21 07:22:58', '2010-07-21 12:22:58', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-42/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2085, 2, '2011-08-03 13:18:37', '2011-08-03 18:18:37', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2012</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\n<em>The AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award, The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award, The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (LA), the Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award, The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE), The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER), the Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA), and The Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award(CMC). </em>\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the 2012 AAZK National Conference in Syracuse, NY. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May 2012</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). Some categories may include monetary awards.\r\n\r\n<strong>Award Nominations should be submitted to:</strong>\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline for Nominations is 1 May 2011</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lifetime-achievement-la-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lifetime Achievement (LA) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lee-houts-excellence-in-enrichment-lhee-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment (LHEE) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-for-zoo-keeper-education-cmze/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-excellence-in-exhibit-design-renovation-ceer/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/mazuri-animal-nutrition-award-mana/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/jean-m-hromadka-aazk-excellence-in-animal-care-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2010_awards.pdf">2010 Award Recipients</a>\r\n</strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-03 13:18:37', '2011-08-03 18:18:37', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-44/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1731, 2, '2009-05-26 21:18:17', '2009-05-27 02:18:17', '<h3>Canisius College</h3>\r\n<p>B.S. in Biology with a Minor in Zoo Biology<br />\r\n2001 Main Street<br />\r\nBuffalo, NY 14208-1098<br />\r\n(716)-883-7000<br />\r\n<a href="mailto:noonan@canisius.edu">noonan@canisius.edu</a></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Students receive rigorous background preparation in coursework through an abundance of hands-on experiences at various zoos and marine parks in Western New York and Ontario, Canada.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="http://www.canisius.edu/">http://www.canisius.edu/</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://www.canisius.edu/biopsych/zoobio/">http://www.canisius.edu/biopsych/zoobio/</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>Delaware Valley College</h3>\r\n\r\n<p>B.S. in Animal Biotechnology and Conservation</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Students in the Animal Biotechnology and Conservation program may major in Zoo Science, Small Animal Science or Conservation &amp; Wildlife Management. 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Students receive a solid foundation in the biological sciences, along with courses focused on wildlife science, education and interpretation. Potential employers include zoos, aquaria, rehabilitation and wildlife education facilities.</p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li><a href="http://www.unity.edu/default.aspx">http://www.unity.edu/default.aspx</a></li>\r\n    <li><a href="http://www.unity.edu/Academic/Majors/WildlifeCareAndEducation/WildlifeCareAndEducation.aspx">http://www.unity.edu/Academic/Majors/WildlifeCareAndEducation/WildlifeCareAndEducation.aspx</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>University of West Florida</h3>\r\n\r\n<p>B.S. in Zoo Science as part of an Interdisciplinary Science Degree<br />\r\n11000 University Parkway<br />\r\nPensacola, FL 32514<br />\r\n(850) 474-2000</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Steve Celestial, Zoo Science Advisor, <a href="mailto:scelestial@uwf.edu">scelestial@uwf.edu</a><br />\r\nOffers cooperative programs with the Pensacola Junior College Zoo Animal Technology Program and Santa Fe Community College Teaching Zoo (see Two Year Programs).</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href="http://uwf.edu/catalog/intscibs.pdf">http://uwf.edu/catalog/intscibs.pdf</a></p>\r\n\r\n<h3>University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point</h3>\r\n\r\n<p>B.S. degrees<br />\r\nMajor in Wildlife<br />\r\nMinor in Captive Wildlife management<br />\r\n2100 Main Street<br />\r\nStevens Point, WI 54481-3897<br />\r\n(715) 346-0123</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Sue Kissinger<br />\r\nCoordinator of Advising and Recruitment<br />\r\nStudent Success Center - 180 CNR<br />\r\nCollege of Natural Resources</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Shelli Dubay, Ph.D.<br />\r\nAssistant Professor, Wildlife<br />\r\n327 CNR<br />\r\nCollege of Natural Resources<br />\r\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point<br />\r\n(715) 346-4178<br />\r\nFax: (715) 346-3624<br />\r\n<a href="mailto:sdubay@uwsp.edu">sdubay@uwsp.edu</a></p>\r\n\r\n<p>While not directly advertised for zookeepers this program offers much of the same basic knowledge and skill that would be needed for the job.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href="http://www.uwsp.edu/admissions/guides/captivewildlife.aspx">http://www.uwsp.edu/admissions/guides/captivewildlife.aspx</a></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Western Illinois University School of Graduate Studies</h3>\r\n\r\n<p>Post-Baccalaureate Certificate: Zoo &amp; Aquarium Studies<br />\r\n1 University Circle<br />\r\nMemorial Hall 237<br />\r\nMacomb, IL 61455-1390<br />\r\n(309)-298-1806<br />\r\n<a href="mailto:Grad-Office@wiu.edu">Grad-Office@wiu.edu</a></p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href="http://www.wiu.edu/grad/catalog/zooaquastudies.php">http://www.wiu.edu/grad/catalog/zooaquastudies.php</a></p>', 'Four-Year Programs', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '95-revision-5', '', '', '2009-05-26 21:18:17', '2009-05-27 02:18:17', '', 95, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/95-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1733, 2, '2010-09-23 09:43:16', '2010-09-23 14:43:16', '<h2><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/bowling-for-rhinos-conservation-resource-fund-grant">AAZK, Inc. announces "Bowling for Rhinos Conservation Resource Fund  Grant"</a></h2>\r\n<h3>Coordinator</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2><strong>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$3,663,076</span></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Samatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $3 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Links</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check your totals you can do so here: <a href="http://aazkbfr.org/bfrsites">http://aazkbfr.org/bfrsites</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-09-23 09:43:16', '2010-09-23 14:43:16', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-27/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1818, 2, '2010-12-15 07:58:35', '2010-12-15 12:58:35', '<h3><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1132" title="pdc_color_logo" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pdc_color_logo-155x300.jpg" alt="pdc_color_logo" width="155" height="300" /></h3>\r\n<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1260" title="melaina" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/melaina-150x150.jpg" alt="melaina" width="150" height="150" /> Melaina Wallace - <em>Disney\'s Animal Kingdom</em>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Professional Development Committee\'s Mission is to provide continual resources for professional growth through leadership  and educational opportunities for all National AAZK members.\r\n\r\n<strong>2010</strong>\r\nThe 2010 AAZK National Conference in Philadelphia was an interesting and busy time for the Professional Development Committee.   The committee again hosted two continuing education workshops.   The workshops presented were a Passerine Husbandry Workshop and a Rotating Exhibits Workshop.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1814" title="pass_workshop" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pass_workshop-225x300.jpg" alt="pass_workshop" width="225" height="300" />\r\n\r\nThe Passerine Husbandry Workshop was taught by Dr. Robert Webster from the Toledo Zoo and was sponsored by Marion Zoological, Mazuri, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.   This was a 6 hour workshop that focused on allowing keepers being able to share their own personal or their own facilities advancements in the care of these small birds.   On top of that it gave a host of other talks that focused passerine bird biology, husbandry, and behavioral husbandry. PDF\'s from this workshop can be found in the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/members/login.php">Member\'s Only</a> section of the website.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1815" title="robert_webster" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/robert_webster-300x225.jpg" alt="robert_webster" width="300" height="225" />\r\n\r\n<em>Dr. Robert Webster giving one of many bird husbandry talks</em>\r\n\r\nThe Rotating Exhibit Workshop was an evening workshop that was hosted by keepers from the Denver Zoo, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Philadelphia Zoo, and Point Defiance Zoo.   This type of animal exhibitry is starting to become a new direction and method of revitalizing old exhibits while staying in existing footprints and addressing the ever rising expectations of animal welfare and behavioral husbandry.  This two hour workshop focused on the daily opportunities and challenges associated with this type of exhibit with emphasis on enrichment, safety, guest experience, along with the flexibility, freedom, and limitations that one might face if considering a change in this style of animal exhibitry.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1816" title="predator_ridge" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/predator_ridge-300x225.jpg" alt="predator_ridge" width="300" height="225" />\r\n\r\n<em>Andrew Rowan and Mike Murray talk about their rotating exhibit Predator Ridge</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Future</strong>\r\n\r\nOne of the other main focuses of the committee at this conference was to meet about the new direction of the professional development committee and their increasing role in the future of the AAZK.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>2010 Professional Development Committee Members</strong></em>\r\nMelaina Wallace – Chair                                  Bob Cisneros- Liaison to Board\r\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom                                   San Diego Zoo\r\n\r\nKelly Wilson                                                  Victor Alm\r\nDetroit Zoo                                                  Oakland Zoo\r\n\r\nBandy Hicks                                                                                            Leann Blinco\r\nBoat Club Road Animal Hospital                          Disney\'s Animal Kingdom\r\nWhitetail Veterinary Services\r\n\r\nMike Murray                                                Aaron Jesue\r\nDenver Zoo                                                                                              North Carolina Zoo\r\n\r\nDawn Sohr                                                                              Andrew Rowan\r\nBrookfield Zoo                                                                       Denver Zoo\r\n\r\nEllen Vossekuil                                             Amanda Hall\r\nUtah’s Hogle Zoo                                       Zoo New England\r\n\r\nEunice Hui                                                                              Anthony Nielsen\r\nCoyote Point Museum                             Lincoln Park Zoo\r\n\r\nT’Noya Thompson Gonzales\r\nMoody Gardens\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong></strong>', 'Professional Development Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '178-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-12-15 07:58:35', '2010-12-15 12:58:35', '', 178, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/178-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1817, 2, '2010-11-04 09:17:33', '2010-11-04 14:17:33', '<h3><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1132" title="pdc_color_logo" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pdc_color_logo-155x300.jpg" alt="pdc_color_logo" width="155" height="300" /></h3>\r\n<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1260" title="melaina" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/melaina-150x150.jpg" alt="melaina" width="150" height="150" /> Melaina Wallace - <em>Disney\'s Animal Kingdom</em>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Professional Development Committee\'s Mission is to provide continual resources for professional growth through leadership  and educational opportunities for all National AAZK members.\r\n\r\n<strong>2010</strong>\r\nThis past year the Professional Development Committee put together a rotating exhibit workshop for the 2010 national conference held in Philadelphia, PA. Links to the Powerpoints® from that workshop are below.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/predator_ridge.pdf">Predator Ridge: Denver Zoo</a>\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/big_cat_falls.pdf">Big Cat Falls: Philadelphia Zoo</a>\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/asian_forest.pdf">Asian Forest Sanctuary: Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium</a>\r\n\r\nThere was also a passerine workshop held. This 7 hour workshop led by Robert Webster, Curator of Birds at the Toledo Zoo and Vice Program Leader of the PACCT TAG, gathered experts from 11 different AZA zoological institutions to speak on various topics related to bird collections  in their facilities. The PACCT TAG (Passeriformes, Apodiformes, Coliiformes, Caprimulgiformes and Trogoniformes TAG) was well represented in this workshop. Topics discussed were as follows: avian collection sustainability, North American species in our backyards, swamp sparrow husbandry, tanager husbandry, plush-crested jay vocalization, Asian bird species, fairy Bluebirds husbandry and breeding, white-crested laughing thrush husbandry and breeding, tawny frogmouth husbandry, compatibility in large aviaries, redesigning indoor exhibits, embryology, handling of birds for veterinary procedures, incubation, live food culturing and avian diet makeovers. PDF\'s from this workshop can be found in the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/members/login.php">Member\'s Only</a> section of the website.\r\n<strong>The Future</strong>\r\nWe are currently working with the conference committee at Philadelphia AAZK to finalize the workshops for the 2011 National Conference in San Diego.  We continue to search out experts to bring conference delegates the most current technologies and innovations in animal care. The Professional Development Committee is also working with the Board of Directors and members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums on a keeper certification process.\r\n\r\n<strong>Want to Help?</strong>\r\nThe Professional Development Committee is currently seeking new members!  We want to continue to provide to the highest quality workshops possible and we need your help!  If you are interested in joining the Professional Development team please contact Melaina Wallace at <a href="mailto:melaina.g.wallace@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">Melaina.G.Wallace@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<strong>\r\n2010 Professional Development Committee Members</strong>\r\n\r\nMelaina Wallace – Chair\r\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom\r\n\r\nBob Cisneros- Liaison to Board\r\nSan Diego Zoo\r\n\r\nKelly Wilson\r\nDetroit Zoo\r\n\r\nVictor Alm\r\nOakland Zoo\r\n\r\nBandy Hicks\r\nBoat Club Road Animal Hospital Whitetail Veterinary Services\r\n\r\nLeanne Blinco\r\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom\r\n\r\nMike Murray\r\nDenver Zoo\r\n\r\nAaron Jesue\r\nNorth Carolina Zoo\r\n\r\nAmanda Hall\r\nScovill Zoo\r\n\r\nEunice Hui\r\nCoyote Point Museum\r\n\r\nDawn Sohr\r\nBrookfield Zoo\r\n\r\nAndrew Rowan\r\nDenver Zoo\r\n\r\nEllen Vossekuil\r\nUtah\'s Hogle Zoo', 'Professional Development Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '178-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-11-04 09:17:33', '2010-11-04 14:17:33', '', 178, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/178-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1743, 2, '2010-10-02 10:00:44', '2010-10-02 15:00:44', '<em>By Rebecca Bearman, Lead Keeper/Birds &amp; Program Animals\r\nZoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\nAnimal welfare has been a hot topic for as long as animals have been under human care.  In 1900, the Cruelty to Wild Animals Act outlawed tormenting zoo animals, shortly before Carl Hagenbeck chose positive reinforcement training (PRT) over traditional training methods to manage his animal collection (Mench and Kreger, 1997).  Today, we know PRT is a successful tool for improving the welfare of animals in captivity.\r\n\r\nPRT provides tools to: improve husbandry through cooperation between keeper and animal; improve social management through increased affiliation and decreased aggression (Prescott and Buchanan-Smith, 2003); increase overall activity (Waitt, Buchanan-Smith &amp; Morris, 2002); desensitize animals to potentially stressful environmental factors; and increase accessibility (Laule and Whittaker, 2007).\r\n\r\nPRT has been shown to decrease stress (Basset, Buchanan-Smith, McKinley, et. al., 2003) and stereotypical behaviors (Bloomsmith, Marr &amp; Maple, 2007), while increasing communication and trust between caretakers and animals, enhancing overall well-being of captive animals, and assisting in husbandry, veterinary, and research procedures (Lambeth, Hau, Perlman, et. al., 2006).  According to Lambeth et al (2006), staff also benefit from decreased stress as animals learn to cooperate.  PRT training sessions allow zoo goers to see animals up close, performing natural behaviors on cue; ask questions after training sessions; and enjoy increased learning opportunities (Anderson, Kelling, Pressley-Keough, et al., 2003).\r\n\r\nAlthough benefits of PRT have been clearly demonstrated, there are circumstances in which caregivers choose not to employ it.  Training animals in groups can lead to aggression between cage mates; or less dominant animals may refuse food from a trainer in the presence of a more dominant animal (personal observation).  To eliminate the need to separate animals for training, this study addressed methods for training select individuals housed within large social groups.  Through trial and error, an effective protocol for training individual animals within a larger group was developed.\r\n\r\n<strong>Methods</strong>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Location and Study Animals</strong></em>\r\nThe 49.56.20 Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) involved in this study were housed in a two-acre enclosure at Six Flags Wild Safari in Jackson, New Jersey, USA.  All males, with one exception, were castrated.  While Wild Safari is a drive-through park, the baboon habitat is closed off from the road.  Six males were initially selected to participate in the study over seven days of ad libitum observations of the entire group (Altmann, 1974); an additional individual that regularly approached during training sessions was added (see Training Methods).\r\n\r\nThe training area was along the exterior fence in an employee-only area.  Participant baboons were selected based on perceived dominance level (mid- to high-ranking), curiosity (high), fearfulness (low) and desire for reinforcement (high) (Mellen and Ellis, 1997; Savastano, Hanson &amp; McCann, 2003; Laule and Whittaker, 2007).  These criteria suggest that an animal will be interested and successful in a PRT program (Bloomsmith, Marr &amp; Maple, 1998; McKinnley, 2003).\r\n\r\n<strong>Training Methods</strong>\r\nVia protective contact through a chain-link fence, 123 training sessions were conducted over 51 days, each averaging 4.8 minutes in duration.  Animals were trained during normally high activity periods to increase likelihood of success (Ramirez, 1999).  Two to four individuals were trained per session, during two training sessions per day.  Behaviors trained are listed in Table 1. A variable training schedule was introduced to avoid session anticipation, a potential cause of frustration, which might have led to aggression (Ramirez, 1999).  The trainer chose a focal animal at the start of each session based on which animals showed up and had not been trained in previous sessions.  Systematic rotation was not used because not every focal animal was present at every session.  Initially, sessions were kept to approximately five minutes, due to increased aggression observed during longer sessions; duration increased slowly over five weeks, up to 15 minutes per session without any contact aggression.  The focal animal was reinforced for the chosen behavior by the lead trainer, while other nearby animals were fed by training assistants, and reinforced for non-interference with the focal animal and trainer.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Step 1. Approaching the Trainer</strong></em>\r\nInitially, focal animals were reinforced for approaching the trainer with a regular keeper present, then reinforced for approaching the trainer without the regular keeper present. Once a relationship was established, a focal baboon was selected for each session.  The trainer worked with the focal while assistant trainers reinforced surrounding animals for allowing the focal to receive reinforcement (Schapiro, Bloomsmith &amp; Laule, 2003; Laule, Thurston, Alford, et al., 1996).  Initially, more dominant animals were reinforced before subordinate animals (Schapiro, Bloomsmith &amp; Laule, 2003) or at the same time.  Once dominant animals allowed subordinate individuals to receive food, this policy was no longer strictly followed.  During the project one monkey, Face, was incorporated into the program after consistently interfering, and was trained to allow subordinate monkeys to receive food in his presence.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1744" title="baboon_training" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/baboon_training.jpg" alt="baboon_training" width="692" height="519" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Photo 1: </strong>Trainer hold target unique to a particular animal to test its recognition of the target as being its own. <em> (Photo by Laura Fischetti)</em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Step 2. Visual Recall and Station on Individual Target</strong></em>\r\nEach animal was assigned a visual symbol to act as a target, recall, and station.  As an individual approached, his unique target was held to the fence and the animal was reinforced for touching it (initially) and maintaining contact until bridged (as training progressed) (See Photo 1).  Once this behavior was reliable, the animal’s knowledge of his own target was tested by presenting him with both the correct target and an incorrect one, and reinforced for touching the correct target.\r\n\r\nIf an individual recalled to his correct target, he was reinforced and all other animals that approached were …………\r\n<em><strong>\r\nWant to read the rest of this important and informative article? 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1745, 2, '2010-10-02 10:00:04', '2010-10-02 15:00:04', '<em>By Rebecca Bearman, Lead Keeper/Birds &amp; Program Animals\nZoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\nAnimal welfare has been a hot topic for as long as animals have been under human care.  In 1900, the Cruelty to Wild Animals Act outlawed tormenting zoo animals, shortly before Carl Hagenbeck chose positive reinforcement training (PRT) over traditional training methods to manage his animal collection (Mench and Kreger, 1997).  Today, we know PRT is a successful tool for improving the welfare of animals in captivity.\n\nPRT provides tools to: improve husbandry through cooperation between keeper and animal; improve social management through increased affiliation and decreased aggression (Prescott and Buchanan-Smith, 2003); increase overall activity (Waitt, Buchanan-Smith &amp; Morris, 2002); desensitize animals to potentially stressful environmental factors; and increase accessibility (Laule and Whittaker, 2007).\n\nPRT has been shown to decrease stress (Basset, Buchanan-Smith, McKinley, et. al., 2003) and stereotypical behaviors (Bloomsmith, Marr &amp; Maple, 2007), while increasing communication and trust between caretakers and animals, enhancing overall well-being of captive animals, and assisting in husbandry, veterinary, and research procedures (Lambeth, Hau, Perlman, et. al., 2006).  According to Lambeth et al (2006), staff also benefit from decreased stress as animals learn to cooperate.  PRT training sessions allow zoo goers to see animals up close, performing natural behaviors on cue; ask questions after training sessions; and enjoy increased learning opportunities (Anderson, Kelling, Pressley-Keough, et al., 2003).\n\nAlthough benefits of PRT have been clearly demonstrated, there are circumstances in which caregivers choose not to employ it.  Training animals in groups can lead to aggression between cage mates; or less dominant animals may refuse food from a trainer in the presence of a more dominant animal (personal observation).  To eliminate the need to separate animals for training, this study addressed methods for training select individuals housed within large social groups.  Through trial and error, an effective protocol for training individual animals within a larger group was developed.\n\n<strong>Methods</strong>\n\n<em><strong>Location and Study Animals</strong></em>\nThe 49.56.20 Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) involved in this study were housed in a two-acre enclosure at Six Flags Wild Safari in Jackson, New Jersey, USA.  All males, with one exception, were castrated.  While Wild Safari is a drive-through park, the baboon habitat is closed off from the road.  Six males were initially selected to participate in the study over seven days of ad libitum observations of the entire group (Altmann, 1974); an additional individual that regularly approached during training sessions was added (see Training Methods).\n\nThe training area was along the exterior fence in an employee-only area.  Participant baboons were selected based on perceived dominance level (mid- to high-ranking), curiosity (high), fearfulness (low) and desire for reinforcement (high) (Mellen and Ellis, 1997; Savastano, Hanson &amp; McCann, 2003; Laule and Whittaker, 2007).  These criteria suggest that an animal will be interested and successful in a PRT program (Bloomsmith, Marr &amp; Maple, 1998; McKinnley, 2003).\n\n<strong>Training Methods</strong>\nVia protective contact through a chain-link fence, 123 training sessions were conducted over 51 days, each averaging 4.8 minutes in duration.  Animals were trained during normally high activity periods to increase likelihood of success (Ramirez, 1999).  Two to four individuals were trained per session, during two training sessions per day.  Behaviors trained are listed in Table 1. A variable training schedule was introduced to avoid session anticipation, a potential cause of frustration, which might have led to aggression (Ramirez, 1999).  The trainer chose a focal animal at the start of each session based on which animals showed up and had not been trained in previous sessions.  Systematic rotation was not used because not every focal animal was present at every session.  Initially, sessions were kept to approximately five minutes, due to increased aggression observed during longer sessions; duration increased slowly over five weeks, up to 15 minutes per session without any contact aggression.  The focal animal was reinforced for the chosen behavior by the lead trainer, while other nearby animals were fed by training assistants, and reinforced for non-interference with the focal animal and trainer.\n\n<em><strong>Step 1. Approaching the Trainer</strong></em>\nInitially, focal animals were reinforced for approaching the trainer with a regular keeper present, then reinforced for approaching the trainer without the regular keeper present. Once a relationship was established, a focal baboon was selected for each session.  The trainer worked with the focal while assistant trainers reinforced surrounding animals for allowing the focal to receive reinforcement (Schapiro, Bloomsmith &amp; Laule, 2003; Laule, Thurston, Alford, et al., 1996).  Initially, more dominant animals were reinforced before subordinate animals (Schapiro, Bloomsmith &amp; Laule, 2003) or at the same time.  Once dominant animals allowed subordinate individuals to receive food, this policy was no longer strictly followed.  During the project one monkey, Face, was incorporated into the program after consistently interfering, and was trained to allow subordinate monkeys to receive food in his presence.\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1744" title="baboon_training" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/baboon_training.jpg" alt="baboon_training" width="692" height="519" />\n\n<strong>Photo 1: </strong>Trainer hold target unique to a particular animal to test its recognition of the target as being its own. <em> (Photo by Laura Fischetti)</em>', 'Protocol for Training Select Individuals from a Large Group of Socially Housed Anubis Baboons (Papio anubis)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1743-revision', '', '', '2010-10-02 10:00:04', '2010-10-02 15:00:04', '', 1743, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1743-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1746, 2, '2010-10-02 10:01:50', '2010-10-02 15:01:50', '<em>By Rebecca Bearman, Lead Keeper/Birds &amp; Program Animals\nZoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\nAnimal welfare has been a hot topic for as long as animals have been under human care.  In 1900, the Cruelty to Wild Animals Act outlawed tormenting zoo animals, shortly before Carl Hagenbeck chose positive reinforcement training (PRT) over traditional training methods to manage his animal collection (Mench and Kreger, 1997).  Today, we know PRT is a successful tool for improving the welfare of animals in captivity.\n\nPRT provides tools to: improve husbandry through cooperation between keeper and animal; improve social management through increased affiliation and decreased aggression (Prescott and Buchanan-Smith, 2003); increase overall activity (Waitt, Buchanan-Smith &amp; Morris, 2002); desensitize animals to potentially stressful environmental factors; and increase accessibility (Laule and Whittaker, 2007).\n\nPRT has been shown to decrease stress (Basset, Buchanan-Smith, McKinley, et. al., 2003) and stereotypical behaviors (Bloomsmith, Marr &amp; Maple, 2007), while increasing communication and trust between caretakers and animals, enhancing overall well-being of captive animals, and assisting in husbandry, veterinary, and research procedures (Lambeth, Hau, Perlman, et. al., 2006).  According to Lambeth et al (2006), staff also benefit from decreased stress as animals learn to cooperate.  PRT training sessions allow zoo goers to see animals up close, performing natural behaviors on cue; ask questions after training sessions; and enjoy increased learning opportunities (Anderson, Kelling, Pressley-Keough, et al., 2003).\n\nAlthough benefits of PRT have been clearly demonstrated, there are circumstances in which caregivers choose not to employ it.  Training animals in groups can lead to aggression between cage mates; or less dominant animals may refuse food from a trainer in the presence of a more dominant animal (personal observation).  To eliminate the need to separate animals for training, this study addressed methods for training select individuals housed within large social groups.  Through trial and error, an effective protocol for training individual animals within a larger group was developed.\n\n<strong>Methods</strong>\n\n<em><strong>Location and Study Animals</strong></em>\nThe 49.56.20 Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) involved in this study were housed in a two-acre enclosure at Six Flags Wild Safari in Jackson, New Jersey, USA.  All males, with one exception, were castrated.  While Wild Safari is a drive-through park, the baboon habitat is closed off from the road.  Six males were initially selected to participate in the study over seven days of ad libitum observations of the entire group (Altmann, 1974); an additional individual that regularly approached during training sessions was added (see Training Methods).\n\nThe training area was along the exterior fence in an employee-only area.  Participant baboons were selected based on perceived dominance level (mid- to high-ranking), curiosity (high), fearfulness (low) and desire for reinforcement (high) (Mellen and Ellis, 1997; Savastano, Hanson &amp; McCann, 2003; Laule and Whittaker, 2007).  These criteria suggest that an animal will be interested and successful in a PRT program (Bloomsmith, Marr &amp; Maple, 1998; McKinnley, 2003).\n\n<strong>Training Methods</strong>\nVia protective contact through a chain-link fence, 123 training sessions were conducted over 51 days, each averaging 4.8 minutes in duration.  Animals were trained during normally high activity periods to increase likelihood of success (Ramirez, 1999).  Two to four individuals were trained per session, during two training sessions per day.  Behaviors trained are listed in Table 1. A variable training schedule was introduced to avoid session anticipation, a potential cause of frustration, which might have led to aggression (Ramirez, 1999).  The trainer chose a focal animal at the start of each session based on which animals showed up and had not been trained in previous sessions.  Systematic rotation was not used because not every focal animal was present at every session.  Initially, sessions were kept to approximately five minutes, due to increased aggression observed during longer sessions; duration increased slowly over five weeks, up to 15 minutes per session without any contact aggression.  The focal animal was reinforced for the chosen behavior by the lead trainer, while other nearby animals were fed by training assistants, and reinforced for non-interference with the focal animal and trainer.\n\n<em><strong>Step 1. Approaching the Trainer</strong></em>\nInitially, focal animals were reinforced for approaching the trainer with a regular keeper present, then reinforced for approaching the trainer without the regular keeper present. Once a relationship was established, a focal baboon was selected for each session.  The trainer worked with the focal while assistant trainers reinforced surrounding animals for allowing the focal to receive reinforcement (Schapiro, Bloomsmith &amp; Laule, 2003; Laule, Thurston, Alford, et al., 1996).  Initially, more dominant animals were reinforced before subordinate animals (Schapiro, Bloomsmith &amp; Laule, 2003) or at the same time.  Once dominant animals allowed subordinate individuals to receive food, this policy was no longer strictly followed.  During the project one monkey, Face, was incorporated into the program after consistently interfering, and was trained to allow subordinate monkeys to receive food in his presence.\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1744" title="baboon_training" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/baboon_training.jpg" alt="baboon_training" width="692" height="519" />\n\n<strong>Photo 1: </strong>Trainer hold target unique to a particular animal to test its recognition of the target as being its own. <em> (Photo by Laura Fischetti)</em>\n\n<em><strong>Step 2. Visual Recall and Station on Individual Target</strong></em>\nEach animal was assigned a visual symbol to act as a target, recall, and station.  As an individual approached, his unique target was held to the fence and the animal was reinforced for touching it (initially) and maintaining contact until bridged (as training progressed) (See Photo 1).  Once this behavior was reliable, the animal’s knowledge of his own target was tested by presenting him with both the correct target and an incorrect one, and reinforced for touching the correct target.\n\nIf an individual recalled to his correct target, he was reinforced and all other animals that approached were …………\n<em><strong>\nWant to read the rest of this important and informative article? 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1747, 2, '2010-10-02 10:09:00', '2010-10-02 15:09:00', '<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-825" title="enrichment_options" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/enrichment_options-300x117.jpg" alt="enrichment_options" width="300" height="117" />\r\n\r\n<em>By Sheila Wojciechowski, Senior Keeper, Primate Department\r\nChicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo\r\nBrookfield, Il 60513\r\nsheila.wojciechowski@czs.org</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\nThe Tropic World South America exhibit at Brookfield Zoo is a mixed-species, naturalistic rainforest exhibit which contains 2.6 spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), 1.3 capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), 0.1 giant anteater (Mirmecophaga tridactyla), and 0.1 lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris).  This study focused on creating the most effective enrichment rotation for Jutal, our 26-year-old Brazilian lowland tapir.  Keepers began focusing on creating an enrichment rotation for her in 2008.  Initially this involved developing a list of potential enrichment ideas from published accounts of tapir enrichment at other zoos (Sharpe 1997, Zenzinger 2003, and Hobbelink).  We also visited the hoofstock and pachyderm departments of our zoo to research enrichment being provided to similar species.  In addition, we relied on our knowledge of our tapir’s behavior and brainstormed other things she might utilize.  In the end, we had developed a list long enough to provide enrichment twice per day (Figure 1). This was the easy part.\r\n\r\nNext came testing each of the enrichment items to see what she would utilize.  This was primarily done by casual observations.  Keepers made note of what she was and was not utilizing in her holding area, while a volunteer noted what she was and was not utilizing on exhibit.  While we hypothesized that an animal species which is more olfactory oriented would react dramatically to different scents, this proved not to be the case.  Since this tapir seems to enjoy a daily rub-down by keepers during daily visually examinations we attempted tactile enrichment ideas.  Keepers never observed Jutal to utilize these items even after months of trying them.  Keepers did not detect any change in Jutal’s behavior with novel sound enrichment.  She did initially respond to an audio tape of vocalizations made by another tapir, but this seemed to subside quickly.  Unfortunately we were unable to modify her exhibit use through these environmental changes.  Perhaps, it is difficult to get a geriatric animal to change her ways.  However, from our brainstorm list, we did identify seven items that can be thrown into the tapir pool during the middle of the day, which Jutal would consistently utilize (Figure 2).  Therefore, to be more effective for keepers and Jutal, we made the decision to simplify our enrichment rotation to once per day.\r\n\r\nNow that we decided “what” enrichment to provide to Jutal, we had to decide “when” we should provide it.  Initially we decided to provide her with enrichment at 1530 hrs because this is the approximate time she woke up daily.    We then began a formal study looking at the time of day the enrichment item was provided with the goal of maximizing the amount of time the tapir was active during public hours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Methods </strong>\r\nBehavioral data recording if Jutal was “inactive” or “active” were collected by a volunteer at 30-minute intervals from 1000 hrs until 1700 hrs every Saturday and Sunday from May 2008 until August 2009.  “Inactive” was defined as being in a lying position; while “active” was defined as standing on all four feet (whether locomoting or stationary) or swimming in her pool.  Between the time points the volunteer continued to observe constantly and recorded the exact time Jutal woke up and got into a standing position each day.  Prior to the start of the enrichment rotation, eight months of baseline data were collected on Jutal without any enrichment provided.  The experimental portion of the study consisted of providing the same enrichment items at different times of the day.  We selected four different time periods (1300, 1400, 1445, and 1530 hrs) to study.  Each time period was performed for seven weeks, with enrichment provided daily at the specific time and data collected on weekends.  All seven of the enrichment items were provided equally during each of the time periods on data collection days.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1748" title="tapir" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/tapir.jpg" alt="tapir" width="566" height="853" />\r\n\r\nJutal, tapir, interacting with one of her plastic items smeared with peanut butter\r\n<em><strong>(Photos by Jim Schultz, Chicago Zoological Society)</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Results</strong>\r\nThe time Jutal awoke daily during the control phase (no enrichment) and each of the experimental phases was averaged.  Results are displayed in Figure 3.  When enrichment was provided, Jutal did awake earlier.  However, there was a significant difference in the experimental conditions with enrichment being provided at 1400or 1445 hrs resulting in the desired results of waking up the earliest.  Throwing enrichment at this time of day resulted in nearly an hour increase in the time she awoke.\r\n\r\nFigure 4 displays the percent of time Jutal was active during public viewing hours.  Again, significant differences can be seen in each of the experimental conditions.  Jutal was most active when enrichment was thrown at 1400 or 1445 hrs, with no significant difference in these two conditions.\r\n\r\n<strong>Discussion</strong>\r\nWhile keepers often put a lot of time into selecting “what” enrichment items to provide to an animal, this study shows that “when” enrichment is provided can be as important.  It also shows that keepers observing briefly when enrichment is provided may not be the most accurate way to evaluate if goals of an enrichment program are being met.  Our original idea (and easiest for us to see results) was to provide enrichment during her normal active period.  When keepers provided enrichment to Jutal at 1530 hrs, she was often awake already.   (The average time she woke up at this condition was…….\r\n<em><strong>\r\nWant to read the rest of this column? 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1749, 2, '2010-10-02 10:08:46', '2010-10-02 15:08:46', '<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-825" title="enrichment_options" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/enrichment_options-300x117.jpg" alt="enrichment_options" width="300" height="117" />\n\n<em>By Sheila Wojciechowski, Senior Keeper, Primate Department\nChicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo\nBrookfield, Il 60513\nsheila.wojciechowski@czs.org</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\nThe Tropic World South America exhibit at Brookfield Zoo is a mixed-species, naturalistic rainforest exhibit which contains 2.6 spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), 1.3 capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), 0.1 giant anteater (Mirmecophaga tridactyla), and 0.1 lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris).  This study focused on creating the most effective enrichment rotation for Jutal, our 26-year-old Brazilian lowland tapir.  Keepers began focusing on creating an enrichment rotation for her in 2008.  Initially this involved developing a list of potential enrichment ideas from published accounts of tapir enrichment at other zoos (Sharpe 1997, Zenzinger 2003, and Hobbelink).  We also visited the hoofstock and pachyderm departments of our zoo to research enrichment being provided to similar species.  In addition, we relied on our knowledge of our tapir’s behavior and brainstormed other things she might utilize.  In the end, we had developed a list long enough to provide enrichment twice per day (Figure 1). This was the easy part.\n\nNext came testing each of the enrichment items to see what she would utilize.  This was primarily done by casual observations.  Keepers made note of what she was and was not utilizing in her holding area, while a volunteer noted what she was and was not utilizing on exhibit.  While we hypothesized that an animal species which is more olfactory oriented would react dramatically to different scents, this proved not to be the case.  Since this tapir seems to enjoy a daily rub-down by keepers during daily visually examinations we attempted tactile enrichment ideas.  Keepers never observed Jutal to utilize these items even after months of trying them.  Keepers did not detect any change in Jutal’s behavior with novel sound enrichment.  She did initially respond to an audio tape of vocalizations made by another tapir, but this seemed to subside quickly.  Unfortunately we were unable to modify her exhibit use through these environmental changes.  Perhaps, it is difficult to get a geriatric animal to change her ways.  However, from our brainstorm list, we did identify seven items that can be thrown into the tapir pool during the middle of the day, which Jutal would consistently utilize (Figure 2).  Therefore, to be more effective for keepers and Jutal, we made the decision to simplify our enrichment rotation to once per day.\n\nNow that we decided “what” enrichment to provide to Jutal, we had to decide “when” we should provide it.  Initially we decided to provide her with enrichment at 1530 hrs because this is the approximate time she woke up daily.    We then began a formal study looking at the time of day the enrichment item was provided with the goal of maximizing the amount of time the tapir was active during public hours.\n\n<strong>Methods </strong>\nBehavioral data recording if Jutal was “inactive” or “active” were collected by a volunteer at 30-minute intervals from 1000 hrs until 1700 hrs every Saturday and Sunday from May 2008 until August 2009.  “Inactive” was defined as being in a lying position; while “active” was defined as standing on all four feet (whether locomoting or stationary) or swimming in her pool.  Between the time points the volunteer continued to observe constantly and recorded the exact time Jutal woke up and got into a standing position each day.  Prior to the start of the enrichment rotation, eight months of baseline data were collected on Jutal without any enrichment provided.  The experimental portion of the study consisted of providing the same enrichment items at different times of the day.  We selected four different time periods (1300, 1400, 1445, and 1530 hrs) to study.  Each time period was performed for seven weeks, with enrichment provided daily at the specific time and data collected on weekends.  All seven of the enrichment items were provided equally during each of the time periods on data collection days.\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1748" title="tapir" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/tapir.jpg" alt="tapir" width="566" height="853" />\n\nJutal, tapir, interacting with one of her plastic items smeared with peanut butter\n<em><strong>(Photos by Jim Schultz, Chicago Zoological Society)</strong></em>\n\n<strong>Results</strong>\nThe time Jutal awoke daily during the control phase (no enrichment) and each of the experimental phases was averaged.  Results are displayed in Figure 3.  When enrichment was provided, Jutal did awake earlier.  However, there was a significant difference in the experimental conditions with enrichment being provided at 1400or 1445 hrs resulting in the desired results of waking up the earliest.  Throwing enrichment at this time of day resulted in nearly an hour increase in the time she awoke.\n\nFigure 4 displays the percent of time Jutal was active during public viewing hours.  Again, significant differences can be seen in each of the experimental conditions.  Jutal was most active when enrichment was thrown at 1400 or 1445 hrs, with no significant difference in these two conditions.\n\n<strong>Discussion</strong>\nWhile keepers often put a lot of time into selecting “what” enrichment items to provide to an animal, this study shows that “when” enrichment is provided can be as important.  It also shows that keepers observing briefly when enrichment is provided may not be the most accurate way to evaluate if goals of an enrichment program are being met.  Our original idea (and easiest for us to see results) was to provide enrichment during her normal active period.  When keepers provided enrichment to Jutal at 1530 hrs, she was often awake already.   (The average time she woke up at this condition was…….\n<em><strong>\nWant to read the rest of this column? 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1750, 2, '2010-09-01 08:46:13', '2010-09-01 13:46:13', '<strong> September 7-12, 2010 - <em>National AZAD Conference</em></strong><em> </em>Hosted by Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, IL USA. Call for Papers--Share your ideas by presenting a paper addressing ways people can work to conserve our Earth and all the gifts it gives us. For further information see <a href="http://www.azadocents.org/">http://www.azadocents.org/</a>\r\n<strong>\r\nSeptember 11-16, 2010 -<em> AZA 2010 Annual Conference</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Houston Zoo, Houston, TX.  See <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a> for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 7-12, 2010 </strong>- <strong><em>National AZAD Conference</em></strong> Hosted by Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, IL USA. Call for Papers--Share your ideas by presenting a paper addressing ways people can work to conserve our Earth and all the gifts it gives us - Abstracts must be submitted by January 15, 2010; Notification of Acceptance is February 15, 2010; Completed papers are due April 1, 2010.  Presentations should be 45 minutes in length, including 10 minutes for Q&amp;A.  Please email abstracts to <a href="mailto:AZAD2010info@gmail.com">AZAD2010info@gmail.com</a> with the subject line being “Abstract”.  Include name and contact info, title of paper, abstract, audio-visual equipment needed, your zoo/aquarium affiliation and AZAD membership category.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 26-30, 2010</strong> -<em> <strong>AZA Orangutan SSP® Workshop </strong></em>– at the Denver Zoo, Denver, CO. Theme:  “Conservation &amp; Husbandry Innovations for the New Decade” Climb Up to a Higher Branch at the 4th Annual Orangutan SSP® Husbandry Workshop! - Focused on the care and management of orangutans, the workshop will bring together orangutan caregivers and managers, researchers, and field biologists to share the most current information on husbandry, conservation, and emergent issues pertaining to captive and wild populations of orangutans. Workshop registration fee is $125. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Orangutan SSP® Masterplan meetings which will take place on Sunday, September 26, 2010.  For additional information contact Ronda Schwetz at <a href="mailto:rschwetz@denverzoo.org">rschwetz@denverzoo.org</a>.   Online registration will be available soon at <a href="http://www.denverzoo.org">www.denverzoo.org</a>. Pre-Conference Trip to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Sunday, September 26—more details soon!<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>September 28-October 2, 2010</strong> -<strong><em> 20th International Zoo Educators’ (IZE) Biennial Conference</em></strong> - at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL.  For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.izea.net">http://www.izea.net</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 30 - October 3, 2010 - <em>The 32nd Annual Elephant Manager’s Association Conference</em></strong> - Hosted by the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; PPG Aquarium. Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites Pittsburgh-Allegheny Valley-RIDC. A room block is reserved.  Call (412) 963-0600 for reservations.  More details will follow on Facebook, in AZA and EMA publications and websites.  Contact Terry Deluliis at (412) 365-2500 with questions.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 3-7, 2010 - <em>The Aquarium and Zoo Facilities Association’s 17th Annual Conference</em></strong> - To be hosted by the Saint Louis Zoo in Saint Louis, MO.  For further program and registration information, please see <a href="http://www.azfa.org">www.azfa.org</a> or call Sue Stroud at (314) 646-4616; Fax (314) 646-5531; email at <a href="mailto:stroud@stlzoo.org">stroud@stlzoo.org</a>\r\n\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>October 14-15, 2010</strong> - <em><strong>Passerine Workshop </strong></em>\r\nHosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta, GA. The intent of this workshop is to increase knowledge for keepers/newer managers on basic husbandry, breeding, and daily management of various passerine species and sharing of information between institutions.\r\n\r\nPlease contact Sprina Liu, <a href="mailto:sliu@zooatlanta.org">sliu@zooatlanta.org</a>, for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 14-20, 2010 - <em>30th Annual AZVT Conference</em></strong>.  The Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians will meet at the Los Angeles Zoo in Los Angeles, CA.  If you would like more information please visit <a href="http://www.azvt.org">www.azvt.org</a> or contact Peter Flowers @ <a href="mailto:zootekkie@gmail.com">zootekkie@gmail.com</a> or call (323) 644-6051.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 17-21, 2010 -  <em>65th Annual Conference of WAZA</em></strong>. To be held in Cologne, Germany.  See <a href="http://www.waza.org/en/site/home">http://www.waza.org/en/site/home</a> for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>November 10-13, 2010  - <em>The 6th Annual Zoological Association of America Conference</em></strong> - In Lafayette, LA.  Information and registration forms are available at <a href="http://www.zaa.org/">http://www.zaa.org/</a>.  For more information, contact Matt Oldenburg at (337) 837-6139 or <a href="mailto:MOldenburg@ZooOfAcadiana.org">MOldenburg@ZooOfAcadiana.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>December 6-10, 2010 - <em>Training and Enrichment Workshop for Zoo Animals</em></strong><em> </em>- Oakland Zoo, Oakland, CA.  For information contact Active Environments, Inc. at 805-737-3700 or email Gail Laule at <a href="mailto:moonshadowe@earthlink.net">moonshadowe@earthlink.net</a> or Margaret Rousser at <a href="mailto:margaret@oaklandzoo.org">margaret@oaklandzoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>February 16-19, 2011  - <em>19th Annual Conference International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators</em></strong> ~ “Pittsburgh 2011: Innovation and Inspiration” Hosted by National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA USA. Papers, posters, site visits, vendors and workshops. Topics will include avian behavior, training, husbandry, conservation, education, enrichment and show presentation/production.  For more information about the conference visit <a href="http://www.IAATE.org">www.IAATE.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 2-4, 2011 - <em>Association of Professional Wildlife Educators</em></strong>. To be held at the Frank Buck Zoo Gainesville, Texas. Watch <a href="http://www.apwe.org/">http://www.apwe.org/</a> for details as they become available.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 8-11, 2011 -<em> Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Woodland Park Zoo, at Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA.  Icebreaker planned for evening of March 7th. Registration is now open at <a href="http://www.zoo.org/zacc">www.zoo.org/zacc</a>.\r\n<strong>\r\nMay 15th-18th, 2011 - <em>2011 Rhino Keeper Workshop</em></strong>. To be held at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Texas. For further info contact:<a href="mailto:adam.felts@columbuszoo.org"> adam.felts@columbuszoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\n2011 - San Diego, CA - August 24-28\r\n\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\nSeptember 11-16, 2010  - AZA 2010 Annual Conference - Hosted by Houston Zoo, Houston, TX.\r\n\r\nSeptember 12-17, 2011  - AZA 2011 Annual Conference - Hosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta , GA\r\n\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events September 2010', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-09-01 08:46:13', '2010-09-01 13:46:13', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-24/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1795, 2, '2010-11-02 08:56:55', '2010-11-02 13:56:55', '<strong>November 10-13, 2010  - <em>The 6th Annual Zoological Association of America Conference</em></strong> - In Lafayette, LA.  Information and registration forms are available at <a href="http://www.zaa.org/">http://www.zaa.org/</a>.  For more information, contact Matt Oldenburg at (337) 837-6139 or <a href="mailto:MOldenburg@ZooOfAcadiana.org">MOldenburg@ZooOfAcadiana.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>November 16-19, 2010 - <em>2010 Aquatic Zoo Animal Nutrition Workshop</em> - </strong>To be held in Montreal, Canada. For further information go to <a href="http://www.caza-narg.org">http://www.caza-narg.org</a><strong>.\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>December 6-10, 2010 - <em>Training and Enrichment Workshop for Zoo Animals</em></strong><em> </em>- Oakland Zoo, Oakland, CA.  For information contact Active Environments, Inc. at 805-737-3700 or email Gail Laule at <a href="mailto:moonshadowe@earthlink.net">moonshadowe@earthlink.net</a> or Margaret Rousser at <a href="mailto:margaret@oaklandzoo.org">margaret@oaklandzoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>February 16-19, 2011  - <em>19th Annual Conference International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators</em></strong> ~ “Pittsburgh 2011: Innovation and Inspiration” Hosted by National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA USA. Papers, posters, site visits, vendors and workshops. Topics will include avian behavior, training, husbandry, conservation, education, enrichment and show presentation/production.  For more information about the conference visit <a href="http://www.IAATE.org">www.IAATE.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 2-4, 2011 - <em>Association of Professional Wildlife Educators</em></strong>. To be held at the Frank Buck Zoo Gainesville, Texas. Watch <a href="http://www.apwe.org/">http://www.apwe.org/</a> for details as they become available.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 8-11, 2011 -<em> Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Woodland Park Zoo, at Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA.  Icebreaker planned for evening of March 7th. Registration is now open at <a href="http://www.zoo.org/zacc">www.zoo.org/zacc</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 19-24 , 2011 - Save the Date!  <em>The 2011 AZA Ungulate TAG Midyear Meetings</em></strong> are being planned in conjunction with the AZA Midyear workshop in Chattanooga, TN. The exact dates of the Ungulate TAG meetings will be determined soon.  This year the meetings will include midyear/working meetings for the following AZA TAGS:  Antelope and Giraffe, Equid, Cervid, Caprid, Wild Pig and Peccary and the Cattle TAG, as well as the Annual Ungulate TAG Research Symposium.  AZA has announced that the registration rates will remain the same as the rates in 2009 and the Conference Hotel will be the Chattanooga Marriott with conference rates of $135/night.   Contact Martha Fischer at <a href="mailto:fischer@stlzoo.org">fischer@stlzoo.org</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 17-22, 2011 - <em>11th Annual Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA)</em></strong>. In Denver, CO. The conference will kick off with our keynote speaker, Dr. Jill Mellen from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and will culminate with an Earth Day to remember at the Denver Zoo.  See (<a href="http://www.theabma.org/">http://www.theabma.org/</a>) for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nMay 15th-18th, 2011 - <em>2011 Rhino Keeper Workshop</em></strong>. To be held at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Texas. For further info contact:<a href="mailto:adam.felts@columbuszoo.org"> adam.felts@columbuszoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>August 8-14, 2012 - <em>The World Congress of Herpetology</em></strong> - To be held in Vancouver, Canada. For more information see <a href="http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/">http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/</a>.\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\n2011 - San Diego, CA - August 24-28\r\n\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\n2013 - Asheboro, NC  - Dates TBA\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\nSeptember 12-17, 2011  - AZA 2011 Annual Conference - Hosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta , GA\r\n\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events November 2010', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-11-02 08:56:55', '2010-11-02 13:56:55', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-26/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1820, 2, '2010-12-01 06:34:33', '2010-12-01 11:34:33', '<strong>December 6-10, 2010 - <em>Training and Enrichment Workshop for Zoo Animals</em></strong><em> </em>- Oakland Zoo, Oakland, CA.  For information contact Active Environments, Inc. at 805-737-3700 or email Gail Laule at <a href="mailto:moonshadowe@earthlink.net">moonshadowe@earthlink.net</a> or Margaret Rousser at <a href="mailto:margaret@oaklandzoo.org">margaret@oaklandzoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>February 16-19, 2011  - <em>19th Annual Conference International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators</em></strong> ~ “Pittsburgh 2011: Innovation and Inspiration” Hosted by National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA USA. Papers, posters, site visits, vendors and workshops. Topics will include avian behavior, training, husbandry, conservation, education, enrichment and show presentation/production.  For more information about the conference visit <a href="http://www.IAATE.org">www.IAATE.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 2-4, 2011 - <em>Association of Professional Wildlife Educators</em></strong>. To be held at the Frank Buck Zoo Gainesville, Texas. Watch <a href="http://www.apwe.org/">http://www.apwe.org/</a> for details as they become available.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 6-11, 2011 - <em>AZA Professional Training Course:  Animal Training Applications in Zoos and Aquariums.</em> </strong>Hosted at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL. Get hands-on experience in training animals! This course provides zoo and aquarium staff with a background in training theory and an understanding of the skills necessary to train animals. It includes a historical perspective of animal training as well as terminology and an overview of training techniques. Selected training concepts and skills will be taught via animal demonstrations, group activities and individual skill development opportunities.\r\nFor more information:  <a href="http://www.aza.org/professional-training/">http://www.aza.org/professional-training/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 8-11, 2011 -<em> Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Woodland Park Zoo, at Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA.  Icebreaker planned for evening of March 7th. Registration is now open at <a href="http://www.zoo.org/zacc">www.zoo.org/zacc</a>.\r\n\r\nWe are pleased to announce the ZACC 2011 Keynote Speakers!\r\n\r\nTuesday, March 8\r\n<strong>Dr. Jeff Bonner, President &amp; CEO, St. Louis Zoo</strong>\r\nDr. Bonner has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Saint Louis Zoo since 2002 and is the Chair Elect of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Under his leadership, Saint Louis Zoo’s WildCare Institute was born, with 12 Conservation Centers supporting research and conservation activities for critically endangered species and habitats across the globe. Dr. Bonner is also the author of Sailing with Noah, Stories from the World of Zoos. The book, published in 2006, is an intensely personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. In it he explores the role of zoos in today\'s society and their future as institutions of education, conservation and research.\r\n\r\nWednesday, March 9\r\n<strong>Cristina Mittermeier, Founder &amp; Executive Director, International League of Conservation Photographers</strong>\r\nAs a photographer and writer since 1996, Cristina Mittermeier has co-edited 9 books, including a series published with Conservation International and Cemex.  Cristina serves as Executive Director of the International League of Conservation Photographers, an organization she founded in 2005, while also serving on the Chairman’s Council at Conservation International, and on the Advisory Board of Nature\'s Best Magazine.\r\n\r\nThursday, March 10\r\n<strong>Jennifer Morris, Senior Vice President of the Ecosystem Finance Division, Conservation International</strong>\r\nIn her current position at Conservation International, Jennifer Morris manages two funds: the Global Conservation Fund and Verde Ventures. The Global Conservation Fund supports the creation and financing of protected areas in Conservation International’s priority countries. The Verde Ventures Fund invests in pro-conservation, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) working in key sectors of interest, providing affordable financing to coffee and cacao producers, as well as ecotourism SMEs worldwide. In prior work with Conservation International, Ms Morris played a key role in assisting local partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to analyze, structure, and develop community-based enterprises and credit instruments for the development of rural micro and small enterprises supporting conservation.\r\n\r\nFriday, March 11\r\n<strong>Patricia A. Conrad, DVM, PhD, Co-Director of One Health Center, University of California Global Health Institute</strong>\r\nDr. Patricia Conrad, Co-Director of the One Health Center in the University of California Global Health Institute, is a protozoologist interested in zoonotic disease transmission at the interface between wildlife, humans and domestic animals. She leads an enthusiastic research team of graduate students, staff and collaborators investigating the impact of fecal pathogen pollution in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems on wildlife and human populations. Developing new technologies for parasite detection and identification of new species is an important part of their studies.\r\n\r\nBe sure you register for ZACC 2011 today to hear each of these wonderful speakers! You’ll also be able to network with colleagues, learn the latest news from other conservation organizations, and brainstorm with fellow delegates during breakout sessions all while enjoying beautiful Seattle. For a full agenda and to register, visit <a href="http://www.zoo.org/zacc">www.zoo.org/zacc</a>.\r\nP.S. Early bird conference rate is just $185 and room rates are as low as $165/night.\r\n<strong>March 19-24 , 2011 - Save the Date!  <em>The 2011 AZA Ungulate TAG Midyear Meetings</em></strong> are being planned in conjunction with the AZA Midyear workshop in Chattanooga, TN. The exact dates of the Ungulate TAG meetings will be determined soon.  This year the meetings will include midyear/working meetings for the following AZA TAGS:  Antelope and Giraffe, Equid, Cervid, Caprid, Wild Pig and Peccary and the Cattle TAG, as well as the Annual Ungulate TAG Research Symposium.  AZA has announced that the registration rates will remain the same as the rates in 2009 and the Conference Hotel will be the Chattanooga Marriott with conference rates of $135/night.   Contact Martha Fischer at <a href="mailto:fischer@stlzoo.org">fischer@stlzoo.org</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 17-22, 2011 - <em>11th Annual Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA)</em></strong>. In Denver, CO. The conference will kick off with our keynote speaker, Dr. Jill Mellen from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and will culminate with an Earth Day to remember at the Denver Zoo.  See (<a href="http://www.theabma.org/">http://www.theabma.org/</a>) for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nMay 15th-18th, 2011 - <em>2011 Rhino Keeper Workshop</em></strong>. To be held at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Texas. For further info contact:<a href="mailto:adam.felts@columbuszoo.org"> adam.felts@columbuszoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>August 8-14, 2012 - <em>The World Congress of Herpetology</em></strong> - To be held in Vancouver, Canada. For more information see <a href="http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/">http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 6 – 9, 2011 - <em>Advancing Bear Care 2011</em></strong> – Banff, Canada\r\nBear biologists and naturalists will lead hikes into bear habitat and interpret for delegates how bears use the components of the ecosystem to express their daily and seasonal routines. We will bring this information back into workshops and apply this knowledge towards improving captive bear husbandry. Also, international bear biologists will assist us in interpreting Asian, European, and South American bear habitats.\r\n\r\n<strong>Our Hotels:</strong> We have booked a group of hotels all located in the same block right on the Bow River in Banff. The Banff Park Lodge also owns the Bow View Lodge and the Homestead Inn. Delegates will be able to book a room at one of three price points. You can stay at the Banff Park Lodge [four star hotel] for $135.00 per night - sleeps two - add $15.00 for a third person, or at the Bow View Lodge [three star hotel] for $110.00 per night – sleeps two – add $15.00 for a third person, or at the Homestead Inn [two star hotel] for $95.00 per night – sleeps two. All of the hotels offer clean, fresh rooms with various amenities, and are a two minute walk to dozens of restaurants and pubs at varying price points from McDonalds to international cuisine. Most meals will be offered at the conference but time will be set aside for delegates to experience Banff and the Rocky Mountains. All conference presentations and workshops will be held at the Banff Park Lodge. The arrangement of the hotels is reminiscent of a college campus for convenience.\r\n\r\nBanff Park Lodge <a href="http://www.banffparklodge.com/">http://www.banffparklodge.com/</a>\r\nBow View Lodge <a href="http://www.bowview.com/">http://www.bowview.com/</a>\r\nHomestead Inn <a href="http://www.homesteadinnbanff.com/">http://www.homesteadinnbanff.com/</a>\r\n\r\nThe Agenda: Breakfast is served in our private breakfast room above the hotel lobby. We will meet in the lobby early to board buses to take us out to trail heads each morning [Friday, Saturday, and Sunday] for a guided 1-2 hour hike into bear habitat interpreted by bear biologists, returning to the hotels around noon. Lunch will be served in the conference suite [except for one where delegates can try Banff cuisine]. We will meet at the conference suite for or after lunch for afternoon species-specific workshops for problem-solving sessions lead by some of our captive bear experts. Delegates are asked to bring questions, photos, and other support materials of their current enclosures and husbandry issues to share with the delegates for discussion. Workshops will cater specifically to zoos, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation facilities. Dinner will be served at the conference suite [except for two where delegates can try Banff cuisine]. We will meet after dinner in the conference suite for evening presentations given by species specific bear biologists focusing on how wild bears use their habitat. In the large lobby attached to our conference suite we will offer registration, poster presentations, the silent auction, and the Bear Book and Art Den. Delegates are asked to present their latest work in poster presentations. The Bear Care Group is beginning a new tradition of presenting awards recognizing caregivers for their presentations and hard work.\r\n\r\nPost Conference Trips: We are aware that some delegates need to be back to work after the weekend, but others can stay to sightsee. We are thrilled to announce that we will offer a three day trip into the interior of British Columbia to visit the wonderful Northern Lights Wildlife Society <a href="http://www.wildlifeshelter.com/">http://www.wildlifeshelter.com/</a> near the town of Smithers <a href="http://www.tourismsmithers.com/">http://www.tourismsmithers.com/</a>.  We will travel there from Calgary by bus or air, stay over night in Smithers, visit the rehabilitation facility for one day, and travel back to Calgary (or delegates can travel onto Vancouver or other destinations) on the third day. The Northern Lights Wildlife Society is distinguished by rehabilitating for release both American black bears and grizzly bears. Travel plans will be made as delegates express interest in the trip during conference registration. The trip is tentatively set for Tuesday, October 11th to Thursday, October 13th 20011.\r\n\r\nOn Monday, October 10th we hope to offer a full day trip to the Calgary Zoo. Arrangements are still TBA.\r\n\r\nYour Travel; Delegates should fly to the Calgary International Airport in Calgary, Alberta, Canada <a href="http://www.visitcalgary.com/visitor-information">http://www.visitcalgary.com/visitor-information</a>. It is a destination airport from many US, European and Asian cities. From there delegates can purchase a round trip ticket to Banff with the Banff Airporter <a href="http://www.banffairporter.com/">http://www.banffairporter.com/</a> directly from the airport to the Banff Park Lodge. A special price likely around $100.00 will be negotiated with the company.\r\n\r\nConference Registration: You will be able to register for the conference, conference workshops, hotel, Northern Lights Wildlife Society and Calgary Zoo trips, and Banff Airporter right on this website by January 2011 at the latest.\r\n\r\nGET CONFERENCE UPDATES\r\nConference updates will always be posted on the Bearcare Yahoo Group list serv http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/bearcare/ You will be able to advertise your need for roommates, rides, conference questions etc on this list serv. To join just send an email to <a href="mailto:bearcare-subscribe@yahoogroups.ca">bearcare-subscribe@yahoogroups.ca</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\n2011 - San Diego, CA - August 24-28\r\n\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\n2013 - Asheboro, NC  - Dates TBA\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\nSeptember 12-17, 2011  - AZA 2011 Annual Conference - Hosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta , GA\r\n\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events December 2010', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-12-01 06:34:33', '2010-12-01 11:34:33', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-29/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2102, 2, '2011-09-02 10:42:19', '2011-09-02 15:42:19', '<em>By Christopher Torge, Animal Keeper; Victoria Shaw, Animal Keeper;\nKim Szawan, Animal Keeper;Tim Pinkerton, Zoological Manager,\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge®, Orlando, FL</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\nRuppell’s griffon vultures (<em>Gyps rueppellii</em>) are found throughout Central Africa.  They have an average wingspan of 2.4 meters and weigh an average of eight kilograms.  This species of vulture is listed as “near threatened” according to the IUCN.  Issues affecting their declining population numbers include habitat loss due to encroaching farm land, loss of their main food source: wild ungulates, and poisoning.  Poisoning and death occur after vultures consume the remains of livestock treated with the commonly used anti-inflammatory medication, Diclofenac.  Conservation efforts are underway to stop the use of Diclofenac, replacing it with medications not lethal to vulture species.\n\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge is a 110-acre African-themed vacation resort.   Guests staying at this resort are surrounded by 45 acres of animal habitat viewable from their private rooms, as well as from common guest areas and a restaurant.  The animal collection consists of 35 species of African hoofstock and birds separated into four separate mixed-species habitats.  Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge®, which opened in 2001, has historically always had Ruppell’s griffon vultures as part of its animal collection.\n\nIn the winter of 2009, the flock of Ruppell’s griffon vultures housed at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge® welcomed two new members.  Two chicks hatched out on 8January  and 10 January from two sets of parents.  This was the first time this species ever hatched at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge®, and the animal care staff had been eagerly waiting for these hatchings to occur.  Although both sets of parents had never raised chicks before, the staff was optimistic that the birds would be successful parents.  This paper will discuss the challenges the animal care staff faced when one set of the inexperienced parents proved to be unable to raise their chick by themselves.  The methods used to successfully assist these parents in raising their chick in an 11-acre mixed-species exhibit is the focus of this paper.\n\n<strong>Challenges</strong>\nDuring the first five days, the chick appeared in good health.  The parents were observed offering regurgitated food to the chick and all seemed normal.  The neonate exam on Day 2 went well and no issues or concerns were noted at that time.  The initial plan was to leave the chick with the parents for rearing.  The first sign of challenges began on Day 6.  These challenges included lack of parental feeding, cold weather, and protective parents.\n\n<strong>Medical</strong>\nOn Day 6 the chick was unresponsive and lethargic and was transported to the veterinary hospital for evaluation.  Upon examination it was noted that the chick’s crop was empty and she had lost 18 grams in four days.  The chick was tube fed and held overnight for observations.  Within 12 hours the bird’s condition improved greatly and she started taking small pieces of chopped mouse pinkies offered with forceps.  Our assumptions were that the parents were taking care of the chick in all aspects, except adequate feeding.  We decided to return the chick to the nest and developed a supplemental feeding and weighing schedule, instead of pulling the chick for traditional hand-rearing.\n\n<strong>Feeding Issues and Solutions</strong>\nDuring the discussion of how to raise this chick, the animal care staff identified that the two priorities were to be able to feed the chick reliably on a set schedule, and to reduce imprinting on the keeper staff.   The parents had been constantly brooding and protecting the nest site, so the staff felt that leaving the chick with the parents and only assisting with its feeding was the best approach to lessen the likelihood of imprinting on the animal care staff.  A feeding and weighing schedule was implemented and a core group of keepers were assigned to handle these responsibilities.  The average temperatures in Central Florida in January 2009 were lower than normal.  Daytime temperatures remained in the 40’s and it wasn’t uncommon to have temperatures dip into the low 30’s overnight.  Initially the chick had to be pulled from the nest and placed into a heated brooder during its feeding sessions.\n\n<strong>Protective Parents</strong>\nDue to the protective nature of its parents, removing the chick from the nest proved to be a challenge.  Nets and large metal shields were used to encourage the parents away from the nest.   Once at a safe distance, keepers were able to safely remove the chick, place it in the brooder located in the back of a pickup truck several yards away from the nest site, and commence with the scheduled feeding.  Once the chick was returned to the nest, the parents quickly started to brood the chick again.   This method proved ……..\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2101" title="vulture_chick" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/vulture_chick.jpg" alt="vulture_chick" width="539" height="407" />\n\nFood items handed to the adult female by keeper staff being fed to the chick. (Photo by Disney Animal Kingdom Lodge ® Animal Care Staff)', 'A Different Approach to Raising a Ruppell’s Griffon  Vulture (Gyps rueppellii) Chick by Utilizing Both  Hand-Rearing and Parent-Rearing Techniques', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2100-revision', '', '', '2011-09-02 10:42:19', '2011-09-02 15:42:19', '', 2100, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2100-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1760, 2, '2010-09-23 09:56:25', '2010-09-23 14:56:25', '<h3><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1132" title="pdc_color_logo" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pdc_color_logo-155x300.jpg" alt="pdc_color_logo" width="155" height="300" /></h3>\r\n<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1260" title="melaina" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/melaina-150x150.jpg" alt="melaina" width="150" height="150" /> Melaina Wallace - <em>Disney\'s Animal Kingdom</em>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Professional Development Committee\'s Mission is to provide continual resources for professional growth through leadership  and educational opportunities for all National AAZK members.\r\n\r\n<strong>2010</strong>\r\nThis past year the Professional Development Committee put together a rotating exhibit workshop for the 2010 national conference held in Philadelphia, PA. Links to the Powerpoints® from that workshop are below.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/predator_ridge.ppt">Predator Ridge: Denver Zoo</a>\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/big_cat_falls.ppt">Big Cat Falls: Philadelphia Zoo</a>\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/asian_forest.ppt">Asian Forest Sanctuary: Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Future</strong>\r\nWe are currently working with the conference committee at Philadelphia AAZK to finalize the workshops for the 2011 National Conference in San Diego.  We continue to search out experts to bring conference delegates the most current technologies and innovations in animal care. The Professional Development Committee is also working with the Board of Directors and members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums on a keeper certification process.\r\n\r\n<strong>Want to Help?</strong>\r\nThe Professional Development Committee is currently seeking new members!  We want to continue to provide to the highest quality workshops possible and we need your help!  If you are interested in joining the Professional Development team please contact Melaina Wallace at <a href="mailto:melaina.g.wallace@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">Melaina.G.Wallace@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<strong>\r\n2010 Professional Development Committee Members</strong>\r\n\r\nMelaina Wallace – Chair\r\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom\r\n\r\nBob Cisneros- Liaison to Board\r\nSan Diego Zoo\r\n\r\nKelly Wilson\r\nDetroit Zoo\r\n\r\nVictor Alm\r\nOakland Zoo\r\n\r\nBandy Hicks\r\nBoat Club Road Animal Hospital Whitetail Veterinary Services\r\n\r\nLeanne Blinco\r\nDisney’s Animal Kingdom\r\n\r\nMike Murray\r\nDenver Zoo\r\n\r\nAaron Jesue\r\nNorth Carolina Zoo\r\n\r\nAmanda Hall\r\nScovill Zoo\r\n\r\nEunice Hui\r\nCoyote Point Museum\r\n\r\nDawn Sohr\r\nBrookfield Zoo\r\n\r\nAndrew Rowan\r\nDenver Zoo\r\n\r\nEllen Vossekuil\r\nUtah\'s Hogle Zoo', 'Professional Development Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '178-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-09-23 09:56:25', '2010-09-23 14:56:25', '', 178, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/178-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1826, 2, '2011-01-07 07:56:23', '2011-01-07 12:56:23', '<em>By Carrie Novosel, Senior Keeper\r\nChicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo\r\nBrookfield, IL </em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\nIn January of 2010 keepers at Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo began preparing the American bison (<em>Bison bison</em>) herd to move to the zoo’s newly constructed Great Bear Wilderness exhibit. The herd consisted of 11-year-olds Becky and Drew, and 10-year-olds Ron and Judy. Additionally, two female yearling calves were going through quarantine during this time at a separate location. The bison herd was managed fairly hands-off other than shifting for cleaning and accepting some hand-fed treats at the fence line.\r\n\r\nKeepers, along with our associate curator and behavioral husbandry manager, recognized the need for a team approach to trailer training our herd for a successful move to their new exhibit. We developed a training team specific to bison and created a list of goals before we got started on the actual training. A formal shaping plan, with a list of training steps, was developed for each goal. Some of our goals were: to station train the herd members to have better control over shifting; desensitize each bison to separate from the herd for short periods of time; desensitize the herd to shift through a barn; and, most importantly, to train each individual to voluntarily enter a trailer for transport.\r\n\r\n<strong>Training Process</strong>\r\nThe bison were moved in a standard two-horse trailer with special modifications to accommodate this particular set-up and to protect the trailer from the bison’s potential destructiveness. Animal Programs staff coordinated with the zoo’s welders, carpenters, mechanics, and grounds crew to discuss both trailer set-up and safety modifications. Given the potential for the bison to damage the trailer once the doors were closed behind them, the carpenters lined the entire trailer with two layers of one-inch plywood, including the windows. A ‘Dutch’ door at the front of the trailer, which was part of the original trailer design, was lined in such a way that the door was still usable to call animals into the trailer. The original trailer set-up had two swinging doors on the back with a built- in ramp that folded up over the doors.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1828" title="bison1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/bison1.jpg" alt="bison1" width="671" height="447" />\r\n<h5>Figure 1: Training team members Amy, Roger, and Diane station the bison during a training session. (<em>Photo:  Jim Schulz, CZS staff photographer</em>)</h5>\r\nDue to safety concerns involved with closing a swinging door behind an adult bison, our welders and carpenters fit the trailer with a set of sliding doors that could be operated from outside the animal’s enclosure. The door track was wider than some of the gates the trailer would be passing through so welders modified the track to fold in on itself once the doors were closed. Each door was fitted with a metal tongue along the bottom, which fit into a steel track along the bottom of the doorframe to add extra security to the door.  A steel plate was also welded at the top of the doorframe to take pressure off of the door track in the event of force from inside the trailer. Once the doors were closed they were secured shut with a butterfly pin as well as a steel bar that slid across the doors and fit into a hinged receiver.  A piece of steel along the midsection of each door helped guide the bar as it was slid from one side to the next, as well as adding strength and rigidity to the wood doors.  Once the cross bar was fit through the receiver on each side, pins were inserted to keep it in place. The ramp could then be folded up and chained to the bar during transport.\r\n\r\nWhile crews were busy modifying the trailer, keepers were busy starting the training process. Stationing the bison became first priority since it would give keepers more control of the herd before beginning other behaviors. Keepers clipped several black rubber grain pans to the chain-link fence line and began using a two-inch PVC pipe, cut vertically, as a ‘chute’ to pour the bison’s daily grain ration into the food pan as reinforcement.  At this time keepers also began ringing a cow bell at the start of each session as a cue that it was time for training and that each animal should go to a station. The bison began responding to the sound of the cow bell within just a few days. Since we had more feeding stations set up than bison, we also began clipping visual cues (black plastic squares with a white X taped across the front) to the fence above the grain pans at the beginning of each session to mark which stations would be used that day.\r\n\r\nOne of the main obstacles the keepers had to overcome in the training process was dealing with the social interaction amongst herd members. Due to time constraints, keepers decided not to focus on a cooperative feeding strategy, but rather stationed the most dominant animals first and the most subordinate animal last. That being said, animals were only reinforced by the keeper with whom they started the session to avoid displacement. Proper timing of reinforcement was crucial to keep animals occupied and engaged during the session. This strategy was very successful, with one major drawback - it required us to have one keeper for each animal being trained, which often caused a strain on staffing.\r\n\r\nThe keepers’ next goal was to begin……….\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Want to read the rest of this important and informative article? For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW! </a></strong></em>', '“It Takes a Village to Move a Bison”', 0, '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'it-takes-a-village-to-move-a-bison', '', '', '2013-10-15 17:49:21', '2013-10-15 22:49:21', '', 0, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/?p=1826', 0, 'post', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1768, 2, '2010-10-28 16:27:56', '2010-10-28 21:27:56', '', 'pbi_leadership_camp11', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'pbi_leadership_camp11', '', '', '2010-10-28 16:27:56', '2010-10-28 21:27:56', '', 1589, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pbi_leadership_camp11.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1769, 2, '2010-08-18 09:00:19', '2010-08-18 14:00:19', '<h4><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1602" title="pbi_logo" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pbi_logo-300x247.jpg" alt="pbi_logo" width="144" height="118" />The American Association of Zoo Keepers and Polar Bears International are working together as Conservation Partners towards the conservation of polar bears, the Arctic ecosystem, and spreading our conservation <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1606" title="polar_bears" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/polar_bears-300x194.jpg" alt="polar_bears" width="300" height="194" />messages on the effects of climate change.  Our Associations have developed three key programs towards these goals, Leadership Camp, Acres for the Atmosphere, and Trees for You and Me.  AAZK, PBI, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have also teamed together to create the Polar Bear Forest.  Why are forests so important to polar bears?</h4>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<strong>Reforestation:</strong>\r\n\r\nThough it might not seem obvious at first, planting trees helps conserve polar bear habitat in the arctic. Trees act as "carbon sinks" and absorb carbon out of the air and convert it into plant material. Trees sequester this carbon in roots, trunks, stems and leaves while they grow, and in wood products after they are harvested. That means planting trees, whether in a rural or an urban setting, helps reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain Arctic ice longer and to improve polar bear habitat and survival.   Reforestation positively affects climate change and provides wildlife habitat, helping all of the species that AAZK members are so passionate to conserve.  Referenced from <a href="http://dnr.wi.gov/forestry/PolarBear/">http://dnr.wi.gov/forestry/PolarBear/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Zoo Keeper Leadership camp:</strong>\r\n\r\nThis week-long camp brings together a motivated group of keepers who reach a wide audience with AAZK’s  conservation messages.  Keepers carry a unique cachet with zoo guests. Zoo industry research indicates that zoo visitors consider the conservation messages conveyed by <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1632" title="pbi_camp" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pbi_camp.jpg" alt="pbi_camp" width="464" height="309" />Keepers to be the preferred and most credible sources of conservation education.  Through education programs that are current, scientifically-based, fun, informative, retainable, and action-shaping, keepers inspire their public to pitch in to reduce carbon emissions.  This camp is open to keepers affiliated with PBI’s Arctic Ambassador Centers around the world, and professional members of AAZK.  It is designed to inform, inspire, and empower keepers with information and tools to motivate their constituents.  This camp is focused on communication and presentation skills, creative planning, and program execution especially with regard to climate change and its effects on polar bears.  The camp enhances professional skills and promotes networking with peers while providing access to renowned field scientists, educators, and community members.  For more information, contact <a href="mailto:shane.good@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">shane.good@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/pbi-leadership-camps/zoo-keeper-leadership-camp">http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/pbi-leadership-camps/zoo-keeper-leadership-camp</a>.\r\n\r\n<em>\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<em>\r\n</em>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1623" title="ASquaredFinal" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/acres_atmos-300x288.jpg" alt="ASquaredFinal" width="180" height="173" /></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Acres for the Atmosphere:</strong><strong></strong></p>\r\n\r\nGraduates of the 2009 Zoo Keeper Leadership Camp in Churchill, Manitoba created the initiative Acres for the Atmosphere (AFTA), both for <img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1649" title="marissa1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/marissa1-251x300.jpg" alt="marissa1" width="176" height="210" />conservation education and to take immediate action. With the continued support of PBI and AAZK, we intend to reduce the prevalence of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere. Our initiative is designed around three objectives that will enable us to accomplish this goal. We will increase carbon sequestration by greening areas with vegetative plantings or trees, decrease CO2 emissions within our local communities, and raise awareness in our communities in order to curb our carbon addiction. Our program launches year to year in correspondence with each year’s Zoo Keeper Leadership Camp.  Keepers can get involved on both the individual and AAZK Chapter level.  Join us and lead your communities to a more sustainable future!  Please contact:  <a href="mailto:marissa.krouse@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">marissa.krouse@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1647" title="nc_group2" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/nc_group2.jpg" alt="nc_group2" width="467" height="393" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1656" title="bagbear" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/bagbear.jpg" alt="bagbear" width="479" height="396" />\r\n\r\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1654" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Trees for You and Me:</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the second year, Trees for You and Me will be challenging AAZK chapters to raise money to plant trees. The initiative is an ongoing effort to help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, reduce individuals\' carbon footprints, and help polar bears by reversing the effects of global warming.\r\nThe highest-earning AAZK chapter will once again have a tree planted in its zoo or community for winning the competition.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1661" title="brookfield" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/brookfield.jpg" alt="brookfield" width="357" height="535" /> But the heart and soul of the competition is really about the chapters\' dedication to conservation and stewardship. Not only will the funds help polar bears; Polar Bear Forests benefit wildlife habitat in the area and bring beauty to the landscape.\r\nYou can help! This year’s competition runs September 1, 2010 to March 1, 2011, and any DONATION you make will go directly to purchasing seedlings from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR).  Polar Bears International (PBI) and WDNR are working together on the Polar Bear Forest campaign.\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-1658 alignleft" title="christy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/christy-270x300.jpg" alt="christy" width="216" height="240" />This year your $1 donation will actually plant more trees than last year! $1 = 3 seedlings, $5 = 15 seedlings. Planting a single tree can help, but planting a lot of trees can make a big difference. Imagine. You could support the planting of 150 trees for only $50! And on the donation form, you\'ll have the opportunity to identify which AAZK chapter you wish to support. No doubt, it will be the one affiliated with your favorite zoo!  For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:christy.mazrimas-ott@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">christy.mazrimas-ott@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\nTo donate or for more information, click here:<a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/trees-you-and-me-model-nation"> http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/trees-you-and-me-model-nation</a>.', 'AAZK and Polar Bears International', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1589-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-08-18 09:00:19', '2010-08-18 14:00:19', '', 1589, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1589-revision-69/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1829, 2, '2011-01-07 07:52:32', '2011-01-07 12:52:32', 'By Carrie Novosel, Senior Keeper\nChicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo\nBrookfield, IL\n\nIntroduction\nIn January of 2010 keepers at Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo began preparing the American bison (Bison bison) herd to move to the zoo’s newly constructed Great Bear Wilderness exhibit. The herd consisted of 11-year-olds Becky and Drew, and 10-year-olds Ron and Judy. Additionally, two female yearling calves were going through quarantine during this time at a separate location. The bison herd was managed fairly hands-off other than shifting for cleaning and accepting some hand-fed treats at the fence line.\n\nKeepers, along with our associate curator and behavioral husbandry manager, recognized the need for a team approach to trailer training our herd for a successful move to their new exhibit. We developed a training team specific to bison and created a list of goals before we got started on the actual training. A formal shaping plan, with a list of training steps, was developed for each goal. Some of our goals were: to station train the herd members to have better control over shifting; desensitize each bison to separate from the herd for short periods of time; desensitize the herd to shift through a barn; and, most importantly, to train each individual to voluntarily enter a trailer for transport.\n\nTraining Process\nThe bison were moved in a standard two-horse trailer with special modifications to accommodate this particular set-up and to protect the trailer from the bison’s potential destructiveness. Animal Programs staff coordinated with the zoo’s welders, carpenters, mechanics, and grounds crew to discuss both trailer set-up and safety modifications. Given the potential for the bison to damage the trailer once the doors were closed behind them, the carpenters lined the entire trailer with two layers of one-inch plywood, including the windows. A ‘Dutch’ door at the front of the trailer, which was part of the original trailer design, was lined in such a way that the door was still usable to call animals into the trailer. The original trailer set-up had two swinging doors on the back with a built- in ramp that folded up over the doors.\n\nFigure 1: Training team members Amy, Roger, and Diane station the bison during a training session. (Photo:  Jim Schulz, CZS staff photographer)\n\nDue to safety concerns involved with closing a swinging door behind an adult bison, our welders and carpenters fit the trailer with a set of sliding doors that could be operated from outside the animal’s enclosure. The door track was wider than some of the gates the trailer would be passing through so welders modified the track to fold in on itself once the doors were closed. Each door was fitted with a metal tongue along the bottom, which fit into a steel track along the bottom of the doorframe to add extra security to the door.  A steel plate was also welded at the top of the doorframe to take pressure off of the door track in the event of force from inside the trailer. Once the doors were closed they were secured shut with a butterfly pin as well as a steel bar that slid across the doors and fit into a hinged receiver.  A piece of steel along the midsection of each door helped guide the bar as it was slid from one side to the next, as well as adding strength and rigidity to the wood doors.  Once the cross bar was fit through the receiver on each side, pins were inserted to keep it in place. The ramp could then be folded up and chained to the bar during transport.\n\nWhile crews were busy modifying the trailer, keepers were busy starting the training process. Stationing the bison became first priority since it would give keepers more control of the herd before beginning other behaviors. Keepers clipped several black rubber grain pans to the chain-link fence line and began using a two-inch PVC pipe, cut vertically, as a ‘chute’ to pour the bison’s daily grain ration into the food pan as reinforcement.  At this time keepers also began ringing a cow bell at the start of each session as a cue that it was time for training and that each animal should go to a station. The bison began responding to the sound of the cow bell within just a few days. Since we had more feeding stations set up than bison, we also began clipping visual cues (black plastic squares with a white X taped across the front) to the fence above the grain pans at the beginning of each session to mark which stations would be used that day.\n\nOne of the main obstacles the keepers had to overcome in the training process was dealing with the social interaction amongst herd members. Due to time constraints, keepers decided not to focus on a cooperative feeding strategy, but rather stationed the most dominant animals first and the most subordinate animal last. That being said, animals were only reinforced by the keeper with whom they started the session to avoid displacement. Proper timing of reinforcement was crucial to keep animals occupied and engaged during the session. This strategy was very successful, with one major drawback - it required us to have one keeper for each animal being trained, which often caused a strain on staffing.\n\nThe keepers’ next goal was to begin……….\n\nWant to read the rest of this important and informative article? For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. JOIN NOW!', '', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1826-revision', '', '', '2011-01-07 07:52:32', '2011-01-07 12:52:32', '', 1826, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1826-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1830, 2, '2011-01-07 07:55:32', '2011-01-07 12:55:32', '<em>By Carrie Novosel, Senior Keeper\nChicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo\nBrookfield, IL </em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\nIn January of 2010 keepers at Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo began preparing the American bison (Bison bison) herd to move to the zoo’s newly constructed Great Bear Wilderness exhibit. The herd consisted of 11-year-olds Becky and Drew, and 10-year-olds Ron and Judy. Additionally, two female yearling calves were going through quarantine during this time at a separate location. The bison herd was managed fairly hands-off other than shifting for cleaning and accepting some hand-fed treats at the fence line.\n\nKeepers, along with our associate curator and behavioral husbandry manager, recognized the need for a team approach to trailer training our herd for a successful move to their new exhibit. We developed a training team specific to bison and created a list of goals before we got started on the actual training. A formal shaping plan, with a list of training steps, was developed for each goal. Some of our goals were: to station train the herd members to have better control over shifting; desensitize each bison to separate from the herd for short periods of time; desensitize the herd to shift through a barn; and, most importantly, to train each individual to voluntarily enter a trailer for transport.\n\n<strong>Training Process</strong>\nThe bison were moved in a standard two-horse trailer with special modifications to accommodate this particular set-up and to protect the trailer from the bison’s potential destructiveness. Animal Programs staff coordinated with the zoo’s welders, carpenters, mechanics, and grounds crew to discuss both trailer set-up and safety modifications. Given the potential for the bison to damage the trailer once the doors were closed behind them, the carpenters lined the entire trailer with two layers of one-inch plywood, including the windows. A ‘Dutch’ door at the front of the trailer, which was part of the original trailer design, was lined in such a way that the door was still usable to call animals into the trailer. The original trailer set-up had two swinging doors on the back with a built- in ramp that folded up over the doors.\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1828" title="bison1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/bison1.jpg" alt="bison1" width="671" height="447" />\n<h5>Figure 1: Training team members Amy, Roger, and Diane station the bison during a training session. (<em>Photo:  Jim Schulz, CZS staff photographer</em>)</h5>\nDue to safety concerns involved with closing a swinging door behind an adult bison, our welders and carpenters fit the trailer with a set of sliding doors that could be operated from outside the animal’s enclosure. The door track was wider than some of the gates the trailer would be passing through so welders modified the track to fold in on itself once the doors were closed. Each door was fitted with a metal tongue along the bottom, which fit into a steel track along the bottom of the doorframe to add extra security to the door.  A steel plate was also welded at the top of the doorframe to take pressure off of the door track in the event of force from inside the trailer. Once the doors were closed they were secured shut with a butterfly pin as well as a steel bar that slid across the doors and fit into a hinged receiver.  A piece of steel along the midsection of each door helped guide the bar as it was slid from one side to the next, as well as adding strength and rigidity to the wood doors.  Once the cross bar was fit through the receiver on each side, pins were inserted to keep it in place. The ramp could then be folded up and chained to the bar during transport.\n\nWhile crews were busy modifying the trailer, keepers were busy starting the training process. Stationing the bison became first priority since it would give keepers more control of the herd before beginning other behaviors. Keepers clipped several black rubber grain pans to the chain-link fence line and began using a two-inch PVC pipe, cut vertically, as a ‘chute’ to pour the bison’s daily grain ration into the food pan as reinforcement.  At this time keepers also began ringing a cow bell at the start of each session as a cue that it was time for training and that each animal should go to a station. The bison began responding to the sound of the cow bell within just a few days. Since we had more feeding stations set up than bison, we also began clipping visual cues (black plastic squares with a white X taped across the front) to the fence above the grain pans at the beginning of each session to mark which stations would be used that day.\n\nOne of the main obstacles the keepers had to overcome in the training process was dealing with the social interaction amongst herd members. Due to time constraints, keepers decided not to focus on a cooperative feeding strategy, but rather stationed the most dominant animals first and the most subordinate animal last. That being said, animals were only reinforced by the keeper with whom they started the session to avoid displacement. Proper timing of reinforcement was crucial to keep animals occupied and engaged during the session. This strategy was very successful, with one major drawback - it required us to have one keeper for each animal being trained, which often caused a strain on staffing.\n\nThe keepers’ next goal was to begin……….\n\n<em><strong>Want to read the rest of this important and informative article? For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW! </a></strong></em>', '“It Takes a Village to Move a Bison”', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1826-revision-2', '', '', '2011-01-07 07:55:32', '2011-01-07 12:55:32', '', 1826, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1826-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1831, 2, '2011-01-07 07:56:23', '2011-01-07 12:56:23', '<em>By Carrie Novosel, Senior Keeper\r\nChicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo\r\nBrookfield, IL </em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\nIn January of 2010 keepers at Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo began preparing the American bison (Bison bison) herd to move to the zoo’s newly constructed Great Bear Wilderness exhibit. The herd consisted of 11-year-olds Becky and Drew, and 10-year-olds Ron and Judy. Additionally, two female yearling calves were going through quarantine during this time at a separate location. The bison herd was managed fairly hands-off other than shifting for cleaning and accepting some hand-fed treats at the fence line.\r\n\r\nKeepers, along with our associate curator and behavioral husbandry manager, recognized the need for a team approach to trailer training our herd for a successful move to their new exhibit. We developed a training team specific to bison and created a list of goals before we got started on the actual training. A formal shaping plan, with a list of training steps, was developed for each goal. Some of our goals were: to station train the herd members to have better control over shifting; desensitize each bison to separate from the herd for short periods of time; desensitize the herd to shift through a barn; and, most importantly, to train each individual to voluntarily enter a trailer for transport.\r\n\r\n<strong>Training Process</strong>\r\nThe bison were moved in a standard two-horse trailer with special modifications to accommodate this particular set-up and to protect the trailer from the bison’s potential destructiveness. Animal Programs staff coordinated with the zoo’s welders, carpenters, mechanics, and grounds crew to discuss both trailer set-up and safety modifications. Given the potential for the bison to damage the trailer once the doors were closed behind them, the carpenters lined the entire trailer with two layers of one-inch plywood, including the windows. A ‘Dutch’ door at the front of the trailer, which was part of the original trailer design, was lined in such a way that the door was still usable to call animals into the trailer. The original trailer set-up had two swinging doors on the back with a built- in ramp that folded up over the doors.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1828" title="bison1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/bison1.jpg" alt="bison1" width="671" height="447" />\r\n<h5>Figure 1: Training team members Amy, Roger, and Diane station the bison during a training session. (<em>Photo:  Jim Schulz, CZS staff photographer</em>)</h5>\r\nDue to safety concerns involved with closing a swinging door behind an adult bison, our welders and carpenters fit the trailer with a set of sliding doors that could be operated from outside the animal’s enclosure. The door track was wider than some of the gates the trailer would be passing through so welders modified the track to fold in on itself once the doors were closed. Each door was fitted with a metal tongue along the bottom, which fit into a steel track along the bottom of the doorframe to add extra security to the door.  A steel plate was also welded at the top of the doorframe to take pressure off of the door track in the event of force from inside the trailer. Once the doors were closed they were secured shut with a butterfly pin as well as a steel bar that slid across the doors and fit into a hinged receiver.  A piece of steel along the midsection of each door helped guide the bar as it was slid from one side to the next, as well as adding strength and rigidity to the wood doors.  Once the cross bar was fit through the receiver on each side, pins were inserted to keep it in place. The ramp could then be folded up and chained to the bar during transport.\r\n\r\nWhile crews were busy modifying the trailer, keepers were busy starting the training process. Stationing the bison became first priority since it would give keepers more control of the herd before beginning other behaviors. Keepers clipped several black rubber grain pans to the chain-link fence line and began using a two-inch PVC pipe, cut vertically, as a ‘chute’ to pour the bison’s daily grain ration into the food pan as reinforcement.  At this time keepers also began ringing a cow bell at the start of each session as a cue that it was time for training and that each animal should go to a station. The bison began responding to the sound of the cow bell within just a few days. Since we had more feeding stations set up than bison, we also began clipping visual cues (black plastic squares with a white X taped across the front) to the fence above the grain pans at the beginning of each session to mark which stations would be used that day.\r\n\r\nOne of the main obstacles the keepers had to overcome in the training process was dealing with the social interaction amongst herd members. Due to time constraints, keepers decided not to focus on a cooperative feeding strategy, but rather stationed the most dominant animals first and the most subordinate animal last. That being said, animals were only reinforced by the keeper with whom they started the session to avoid displacement. Proper timing of reinforcement was crucial to keep animals occupied and engaged during the session. This strategy was very successful, with one major drawback - it required us to have one keeper for each animal being trained, which often caused a strain on staffing.\r\n\r\nThe keepers’ next goal was to begin……….\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Want to read the rest of this important and informative article? For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW! </a></strong></em>', '“It Takes a Village to Move a Bison”', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1826-revision-3', '', '', '2011-01-07 07:56:23', '2011-01-07 12:56:23', '', 1826, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1826-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1833, 2, '2010-05-09 05:47:51', '2010-05-09 10:47:51', 'The following links are relevant to the Bowling for Rhinos program.\r\n\r\nAAZK Inc. makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, value, integrity, completeness or authenticity of the information or opinions contained in the web sites below, and any link to another web site shall not in any manner be construed as an endorsement by AAZK Inc. of the web site or the products or services described therein.\r\n\r\nThese links might lead to web sites containing links that display offensive and objectionable content or which may contain dangerous computer viruses. You assume, and AAZK Inc. hereby disclaims, all responsibility for any of the content on other sites or for any damage sustained by users of these sites.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.bluerhino.com/BRWEB/Company-Info/Save-the-Rhinos.aspx"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-867" title="blue-rhino-logo" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/blue-rhino-logo.jpg" alt="blue-rhino-logo" width="216" height="92" /></a> <a href="http://www.bluerhino.com/BRWEB/Company-Info/Save-the-Rhinos.aspx">Blue Rhino</a>\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1461" title="lewaroundblack_withwebsite-2" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/lewaroundblack_withwebsite-2-300x295.jpg" alt="lewaroundblack_withwebsite-2" width="180" height="177" /><a href="http://www.lewa.org">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a>\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-986" title="irflogosm" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/irflogosm.jpg" alt="irflogosm" width="150" height="98" /> <a href="http://www.rhinos-irf.org/">International Rhino Foundation</a>\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-987" title="acklogosm" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/acklogosm.jpg" alt="acklogosm" width="144" height="150" /> <a href="http://www.actionforcheetahs.org/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>', 'BFR Links', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '885-revision-11', '', '', '2010-05-09 05:47:51', '2010-05-09 10:47:51', '', 885, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/885-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1834, 2, '2010-12-29 16:51:21', '2010-12-29 21:51:21', '<h3>Coordinator</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2><strong>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$3,723,042\r\n</span></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Samatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $3 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Links</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check your totals you can do so here: <a href="http://aazkbfr.org/bfrsites">http://aazkbfr.org/bfrsites</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-12-29 16:51:21', '2010-12-29 21:51:21', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-30/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1835, 2, '2011-01-13 14:38:56', '2011-01-13 19:38:56', '<h3>Coordinator</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2><strong>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$3,723,304</span></strong></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2010 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$256,395\r\n</span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Samatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $3 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Links</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check your totals you can do so here: <a href="http://aazkbfr.org/bfrsites">http://aazkbfr.org/bfrsites</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:38:56', '2011-01-13 19:38:56', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-31/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2246, 2, '2011-11-02 09:31:22', '2011-11-02 14:31:22', '<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>November 8-11, 2011 -<em>4th Tree Kangaroo Species Survival Program Workshop</em> </strong>- Hosted by the North American Tree Kangaroo SSP and Woodland Park Zoo. This International Workshop will be held at the Woodland Park Zoo and host delegates from around the world including special guest Danny Samandingke, Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program (TKCP) Education Coordinator in Papua New Guinea.  Registration is $125 and is open to all interested individuals. For more information contact Jacque Blessington at: <a href="mailto:Jacsprat65@aol.com">Jacsprat65@aol.com</a> or call: 816-513-5700.\r\n\r\n<strong>December 5-9, 2011 - <em>Training And Enrichment Workshop for Zoo Animals. </em></strong>Hosted by The Oakland Zoo, Oakland, CA.<em> </em>Presented  by Active Environments and The Shape of Enrichment. Instructors: Gail  Laule, Margaret Whittaker, and Valerie J. Hare. This unique five-day  workshop is designed for keepers, managers, supervisors, curators, and  veterinarians working with all species of animals held in zoos. The  workshop will present an array of topics relating to the behavioral  management approach to caring for captive animals, with focus on  environmental enrichment, positive reinforcement training techniques,  and the problem-solving process. Workshop format includes lecture,  discussion, small group projects, demonstrations, and multiple hands-on  training and enrichment opportunities with Oakland Zoo’s diverse  collection.  Skills taught are directly related to enhancing staff’s  ability to manage captive animal behavior, improve animal welfare, and  enhance the overall care and management of captive animals. The Workshop  format is designed to maximize the value for each participant and as  much as possible to address specific situations, needs, problems, and  objectives.  Be prepared to interact, share, and participate to make the  experience as useful and relevant to you as possible. For further  information contact: Active Environments, Inc., 7651 Santos Rd., Lompoc,  CA 93436; Tel: 805-737-3700; E-mail: <a href="mailto:active_environs@ix.netcom.com">active_environs@ix.netcom.com</a>.\r\n<h2><strong>2012</strong></h2>\r\n<strong>February 6-9, 2012 -<em> International Association of Giraffe Care Professionals</em> -</strong>San Francisco, CA. Located at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District.  For more information, check out the IAGCP’s Event Page on Facebook.\r\n\r\n<strong>February 15-18, 2012 - <em>20th Annual Conference of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators </em>- </strong>Hosted by the Minnesota Zoo, Bloomington, MN. Topics will include avian behavior, training, husbandry, conservation, education, enrichment, and show presentation/production.  Paper and poster abstract deadline is 1 October 2010.  Please mail to: <a href="mailto:conference@IAATE.org">conference@IAATE.org</a>.  For detailed Call for Papers and more information visit <a href="http://www.IAATE.org">www.IAATE.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 12-15, 2012 - <em>Otter Keeper Workshop </em></strong>- The 5th biennial workshop will be hosted by The Dallas World Aquarium,  Any staff working with any of the freshwater species is welcome to attend.  Topics will include: captive management issues, enrichment, training, water quality, health care, nutrition, diet, hand-raising, exhibit design, and lots of sharing of information between keepers.  Registration is $75.00.  For more information, see <a href="http://www.otterkeeperworkshop.org">www.otterkeeperworkshop.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 6-11, 2012 - <em>ABMA Annual Conference </em></strong>- Hosted by Oakland Zoo, California Academy of Sciences, and CuriOdyssey.  The conference location will be the San Francisco Airport Mariott, Burlingame, CA.  See <a href="http://theabma.org">theabma.org</a> for more info.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 13-16 - <em>Shape of Enrichment Regional Workshop</em></strong> - Hosted by Howletts and Port Lympne Wild Animal Parks, Kent, UK.  For more information go to <a href="http://enrichment.org">enrichment.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>July 15-21, 2012 - NATIONAL ZOO KEEPER WEEK</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>August 8-14, 2012 - <em>The World Congress of Herpetology</em></strong> - To be held in Vancouver, Canada. For more information see <a href="http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/">http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>August 16-19 - <em>The 10th Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles</em> </strong>- Tucson, AZ.  Hosted by the Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group.  For more information go to <a href="http://turtlesurvival.org">turtlesurvival.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 9-13, 2012 - <em>4th International Congress on Zookeeping</em> </strong>– To be held in Singapore.  Theme “Many Voices One Calling” Sponsored by Wildlife Reserves Singapore , Singapore Tourism Bureau. For information on sponsorship or exhibition opportunities email <a href="mailto:eo@aszk.org.au">eo@aszk.org.au</a>.  Check the ICZ website <a href="http://www.iczoo.org/">http://www.iczoo.org/</a> for latest news.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 23-27,  2012 - <em>AAZK National Conference</em></strong><em> - </em>Hosted by the Rosamond Gifford Zoo and the Rosamond Gifford Zoo AAZK Chapter in Syracuse, NY. For more information go to <a href="http://www.rgzaecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.rgzaecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<h2><strong>2013</strong></h2>\r\n<strong>September 22-26  2013 - <em>AAZK National Conference</em></strong> - Hosted by the North Carolina Zoo and the North Carolina AAZK Chapter\r\n<h2><em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em></h2>\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\n2013 - Asheboro, NC  - September 22-26\r\n\r\n2014 - Orlando, FL - Dates TBD\r\n\r\n2015 - St. Louis, MO - Dates TBD\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<h2><em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em></h2>\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events November 2011', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-11-02 09:31:22', '2011-11-02 14:31:22', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-48/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1840, 2, '2011-01-07 07:41:23', '2011-01-07 12:41:23', '<strong>February 16-19, 2011  - <em>19th Annual Conference International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators</em></strong> ~ “Pittsburgh 2011: Innovation and Inspiration” Hosted by National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA USA. Papers, posters, site visits, vendors and workshops. Topics will include avian behavior, training, husbandry, conservation, education, enrichment and show presentation/production.  For more information about the conference visit <a href="http://www.IAATE.org">www.IAATE.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 2-4, 2011 - <em>Association of Professional Wildlife Educators</em></strong>. To be held at the Frank Buck Zoo Gainesville, Texas. Watch <a href="http://www.apwe.org/">http://www.apwe.org/</a> for details as they become available.\r\n\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 8-11, 2011 -<em> Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Woodland Park Zoo, at Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA.  Icebreaker planned for evening of March 7th. Registration is now open at <a href="http://www.zoo.org/zacc">www.zoo.org/zacc</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 19-24 , 2011 - Save the Date!  <em>The 2011 AZA Ungulate TAG Midyear Meetings</em></strong> are being planned in conjunction with the AZA Midyear workshop in Chattanooga, TN. The exact dates of the Ungulate TAG meetings will be determined soon.  This year the meetings will include midyear/working meetings for the following AZA TAGS:  Antelope and Giraffe, Equid, Cervid, Caprid, Wild Pig and Peccary and the Cattle TAG, as well as the Annual Ungulate TAG Research Symposium.  AZA has announced that the registration rates will remain the same as the rates in 2009 and the Conference Hotel will be the Chattanooga Marriott with conference rates of $135/night.   Contact Martha Fischer at <a href="mailto:fischer@stlzoo.org">fischer@stlzoo.org</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 17-22, 2011 - <em>11th Annual Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA)</em></strong>. In Denver, CO. The conference will kick off with our keynote speaker, Dr. Jill Mellen from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and will culminate with an Earth Day to remember at the Denver Zoo.  See (<a href="http://www.theabma.org/">http://www.theabma.org/</a>) for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 15th-18th, 2011 - <em>2011 Rhino Keeper Workshop</em></strong>. To be held at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Texas. For further info contact:<a href="mailto:adam.felts@columbuszoo.org"> adam.felts@columbuszoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>August 8-14, 2012 - <em>The World Congress of Herpetology</em></strong> - To be held in Vancouver, Canada. For more information see <a href="http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/">http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 6 – 9, 2011 - <em>Advancing Bear Care 2011</em></strong> – Banff, Canada\r\nBear biologists and naturalists will lead hikes into bear habitat and interpret for delegates how bears use the components of the ecosystem to express their daily and seasonal routines. We will bring this information back into workshops and apply this knowledge towards improving captive bear husbandry. Also, international bear biologists will assist us in interpreting Asian, European, and South American bear habitats.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\n2011 - San Diego, CA - August 24-28\r\n\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\n2013 - Asheboro, NC  - Dates TBA\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\nSeptember 12-17, 2011  - AZA 2011 Annual Conference - Hosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta , GA\r\n\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events January 2011', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-07 07:41:23', '2011-01-07 12:41:23', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-30/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2263, 2, '2011-12-29 18:51:37', '2011-12-29 23:51:37', '<em>By Amy Smith, Bird Keeper III</em>\r\n<em>Knoxville Zoological Gardens, Knoxville, TN</em>\r\n\r\n<span><strong>Background</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span>The Knoxville Zoo currently houses 1.1 Andean condors. Until 2007, the condors were housed in separate behlen cages with no contact. An older exhibit was retrofitted in October 2007 for better visitor viewing and easier husbandry. This new exhibit has an upper exhibit area and a lower shift area separated by a guillotine door (see photo below for exhibit layout). The upper and lower areas were also separated in the middle by fencing and a movable partition to help with introductions of new pairs. Each condor is shifted daily for exhibit cleaning and maintenance.</span>\r\n\r\nOur female, Humpty, hatched in 1983 and came to the Knoxville Zoo in 1991. She was hand-reared due to a failed introduction to a California condor (<em>Gymnogyps californianus</em>) surrogate. Our male, Atreyu, hatched in 2003 and came to the zoo in 2007. He appeared to be a very nervous bird and wouldn’t come near keepers. Over the course of the next three years, he became much more comfortable with keepers and would approach the fence to allow keepers to assess his physical condition. The two birds were placed into the exhibit with the partition in place and housed that way for two years and six months. The decision to wait to introduce the two was made because the male was a youngster and staff wanted him to mature. The female exhibited a great deal of aggression through the fencing of the partition usually resulting in the male having bite wounds on his caruncle. Many of the wounds were minor but a few were significant and caused some concern about introductions.\r\n\r\n<span><strong>Pre-introduction Study</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span>Before introductions occurred, staff wanted to become more familiar with the condors’ behaviors toward each other. Using an existing observation study as a guide and the help of the zoo’s Conservation Science Coordinator, an observational study was developed to record the interactions between the condors. The goal of the study was to determine whether there were more aggressive behaviors than normal or positive behaviors. These observations were only recorded by zoo volunteers or interns to control for any behaviors displayed as a result of keeper presence. Table 1 illustrates the behaviors being studied and recorded. The ‘other’ event included any actions the condor exhibited that did not include being located within one body length of the other condor. The observations were done at different times of the day and multiple times a day and began in early March 2010. The observers recorded the specified bird’s behavior every 20 seconds for 15 minutes and only one behavior/event was recorded each time. They were also asked to note if there were visitors and/or keepers in the area and how many were present. The check sheet observers used to record the behaviors is shown in Figure 1.</span>\r\n\r\n<span>The introductions were held off until after the breeding season as a result of advice from other condor keepers. The recorded observations were analyzed in June to make sure the aggressive behaviors were not constant and more positive behaviors were being recorded. The results were very encouraging (see Figure 2). The ‘other’ or ‘out of site’ events were not included in the results because those recordings did not reflect interactions between the condors. The results for the female showed that 84% of the time an interaction was observed, only a ‘proximity’ event occurred (neither a positive or negative event occurred). Our male exhibited practically the same percent of proximity. Many of the comments written by observers stated that the birds were lying next to the fence by each other with no movement. Of the recorded events, ‘social amicable’ or positive behaviors were recorded 10% of the time and ‘social negative’ behaviors were recorded less than 1% of the time. Staff felt that these results demonstrated the condors were interested in being near each other and most of the time they interacted, it was positive. One other event that confirmed our male reaching maturity was the ‘display’ event recordings. Keepers had noted the female displaying often to the male but the male displayed only a few times in return. However, the study demonstrated our male was displaying more often than we thought. After analyzing the data, the decision was made to introduce the condors…</span>\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2264" title="condors-2" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/condors-2-1024x768.jpg" alt="condors-2" width="614" height="461" />\r\n\r\nPre-Introduction, the Andean Condors displaying to one another. <em> Photo by Amy Smith.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Want to read the rest of this article?  For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW!</a></strong>', 'Introducing 1.1 Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus) at the Knoxville Zoo', 0, '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'introducing-11-andean-condors-vultur-gryphus-at-the-knoxville-zoo', '', '', '2013-10-15 17:49:18', '2013-10-15 22:49:18', '', 0, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/?p=2263', 0, 'post', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1844, 2, '2011-02-04 10:27:04', '2011-02-04 15:27:04', '<em>By\r\nRebecca Bates, Primary Keeper\r\nTracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, UT</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Summary </strong>\r\nDuring the 2009 breeding season, the southern ground hornbills (<em>Bucorvus leadbeateri</em>) at the Tracy Aviary were housed as a family group consisting of the dominant breeding pair and two juvenile females. Since the breeding pair had successfully raised nine chicks with varying levels of assistance, and they were not a high priority to breed, we decided to allow them to try to breed completely without assistance. We provided daily dietary enrichment of mice, chicks, rabbits, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and bugs in a manner that encouraged foraging behavior. Soon the male was displaying with food and leaves to the female and they were frequently heard calling back and forth to each other.\r\n\r\nSadly the female abandoned the first clutch half way through incubation. The eggs were candled and no signs of fertility were seen. The second clutch was developing normally when the eggs were candled half way through incubation, but one egg had a small hole. Since hornbills only raise one chick even if both eggs hatch, this egg was pulled and artificially incubated. The second chick hatched without assistance. The feedings were increased to three times per day to give the hornbills access to fresh food to feed the chick at all times. The male diligently provided the female with food as soon as the food pan was placed in the exhibit. Surprisingly, after a few days the juveniles began presenting the female with food. The male allowed this but watched very closely. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the male began to feed the female less and allow the juveniles to provide the majority of the food to the female.\r\n\r\nAs the chick grew, the female would start spending more and more time off the nest. On several occasions, the oldest juvenile was seen brooding the chick while the female was off the nest. The juveniles continued to care for the chick even after it had fledged. According to their natural history, hornbills stay with their family group for five to six years and assist in chick rearing and territorial defense. Based on my observations and their natural history, I believe much of their breeding behavior is learned. Experience watching and participating in breeding like our juveniles did, will likely make them more successful breeders. I believe that if zoos are to have a sustainable breeding population of southern ground hornbills more effort should be made to keep the juveniles with their parents for as long as possible and allow them to observe and participate on future breeding attempts.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1845" title="ground_hornbills" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/ground_hornbills.jpg" alt="ground_hornbills" width="635" height="509" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Ground hornbill juveniles playing in their exhibit at the Tracy Aviary. </strong><strong><em>(Photo: Allyce Linder)</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\nSouthern ground hornbills are the second largest hornbill and can be found in the savannahs and woodlands of Kenya, Burundi, Nambia, Botswana and South Africa. They are found in family groups of two to 11 birds comprised of a dominant breeding pair and several juvenile and non-dominant male helpers. These groups hunt together feeding mainly on arthropods, but they have also been seen taking larger prey such as snakes, hares and tortoises. The group is sedentary and becomes very territorial during breeding season going so far as to swoop on and killed a Verreaux’s eagle (Aquila verreauxii) when it ventured too close to the nest cavity (del Hoyo, 2001).\r\n\r\nGround hornbills are unique among hornbills because they nest in open cavities in trees or on rock cliffs instead of sealing themselves into a tree cavity. Only the dominant pair will breed. The dominate female will lay two eggs three to five days apart. The eggs are incubated for 37-43 days.  If both eggs hatch, the younger sibling will almost always die of parental neglect. During incubation and chick rearing, the dominant female is provided with food by all members of the group. The chick will fledge after 86 days but will stay with the family group for five to six years until it reaches sexual maturity and males may stay much longer (del Hoyo, 2001).\r\n\r\nAlthough the species has been classified as a species of least concern on the 2009 IUCN red list, many conservationists are concerned about the stability of the population due to the political instability of the countries within their range. They fear that a civil war could not only kill many individuals, but also destroy their habitat making it very difficult for their population to recover. The only country in which they occur that is politically stable is South Africa, and the South African population is declining. They have lost 50% of their original habitat to human encroachment and are often the victims of close association with humans through loss of large dead trees used as nest sites, incidental trapping, shooting and poisoning. For this reason, the Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation Project has been working to establish hornbill troops in the Mabula reserve in South Africa which was historically within their range. This effort entails pulling the second chick from wild nests and hand- rearing it.\r\n\r\nThe first attempt to introduce a group of hand-reared chicks was met with many obstacles. The youngsters were so naïve that they had to be provided with supplemental food and a shepherd was hired to follow the troop around. He made sure they didn’t get eaten by predators and found a proper roost for the night. This care continued until the project received an adult male from rehab whose troop had been poisoned. The male was introduced to the juveniles and he accepted them and took over care. With the adult male helping the youngsters find food and look out for predators, the troop was soon self-sufficient. Happily, the Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation Project reported their first successful fledging from a reintroduced group. The parents were a hand-reared female and a rehabilitated male.  This illustrates the importance of parental care for this species (Turner, 2007).\r\n\r\nAt the Tracy Aviary, we believe that the group interactions are important for proper development of the chicks, so our southern ground hornbills are………..\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Want to read the rest of this important and informative article? 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1846, 2, '2011-02-04 10:24:35', '2011-02-04 15:24:35', '<em>By\nRebecca Bates, Primary Keeper\nTracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, UT</em>\n\nSummary\nDuring the 2009 breeding season, the southern ground hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) at the Tracy Aviary were housed as a family group consisting of the dominant breeding pair and two juvenile females. Since the breeding pair had successfully raised nine chicks with varying levels of assistance, and they were not a high priority to breed, we decided to allow them to try to breed completely without assistance. We provided daily dietary enrichment of mice, chicks, rabbits, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and bugs in a manner that encouraged foraging behavior. Soon the male was displaying with food and leaves to the female and they were frequently heard calling back and forth to each other.\n\nSadly the female abandoned the first clutch half way through incubation. The eggs were candled and no signs of fertility were seen. The second clutch was developing normally when the eggs were candled half way through incubation, but one egg had a small hole. Since hornbills only raise one chick even if both eggs hatch, this egg was pulled and artificially incubated. The second chick hatched without assistance. The feedings were increased to three times per day to give the hornbills access to fresh food to feed the chick at all times. The male diligently provided the female with food as soon as the food pan was placed in the exhibit. Surprisingly, after a few days the juveniles began presenting the female with food. The male allowed this but watched very closely. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the male began to feed the female less and allow the juveniles to provide the majority of the food to the female.\n\nAs the chick grew, the female would start spending more and more time off the nest. On several occasions, the oldest juvenile was seen brooding the chick while the female was off the nest. The juveniles continued to care for the chick even after it had fledged. According to their natural history, hornbills stay with their family group for five to six years and assist in chick rearing and territorial defense. Based on my observations and their natural history, I believe much of their breeding behavior is learned. Experience watching and participating in breeding like our juveniles did, will likely make them more successful breeders. I believe that if zoos are to have a sustainable breeding population of southern ground hornbills more effort should be made to keep the juveniles with their parents for as long as possible and allow them to observe and participate on future breeding attempts.\n\nIntroduction\nSouthern ground hornbills are the second largest hornbill and can be found in the savannahs and woodlands of Kenya, Burundi, Nambia, Botswana and South Africa. They are found in family groups of two to 11 birds comprised of a dominant breeding pair and several juvenile and non-dominant male helpers. These groups hunt together feeding mainly on arthropods, but they have also been seen taking larger prey such as snakes, hares and tortoises. The group is sedentary and becomes very territorial during breeding season going so far as to swoop on and killed a Verreaux’s eagle (Aquila verreauxii) when it ventured too close to the nest cavity (del Hoyo, 2001).\n\nGround hornbills are unique among hornbills because they nest in open cavities in trees or on rock cliffs instead of sealing themselves into a tree cavity. Only the dominant pair will breed. The dominate female will lay two eggs three to five days apart. The eggs are incubated for 37-43 days.  If both eggs hatch, the younger sibling will almost always die of parental neglect. During incubation and chick rearing, the dominant female is provided with food by all members of the group. The chick will fledge after 86 days but will stay with the family group for five to six years until it reaches sexual maturity and males may stay much longer (del Hoyo, 2001).\n\nAlthough the species has been classified as a species of least concern on the 2009 IUCN red list, many conservationists are concerned about the stability of the population due to the political instability of the countries within their range. They fear that a civil war could not only kill many individuals, but also destroy their habitat making it very difficult for their population to recover. The only country in which they occur that is politically stable is South Africa, and the South African population is declining. They have lost 50% of their original habitat to human encroachment and are often the victims of close association with humans through loss of large dead trees used as nest sites, incidental trapping, shooting and poisoning. For this reason, the Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation Project has been working to establish hornbill troops in the Mabula reserve in South Africa which was historically within their range. This effort entails pulling the second chick from wild nests and hand- rearing it.\n\nThe first attempt to introduce a group of hand-reared chicks was met with many obstacles. The youngsters were so naïve that they had to be provided with supplemental food and a shepherd was hired to follow the troop around. He made sure they didn’t get eaten by predators and found a proper roost for the night. This care continued until the project received an adult male from rehab whose troop had been poisoned. The male was introduced to the juveniles and he accepted them and took over care. With the adult male helping the youngsters find food and look out for predators, the troop was soon self-sufficient. Happily, the Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation Project reported their first successful fledging from a reintroduced group. The parents were a hand-reared female and a rehabilitated male.  This illustrates the importance of parental care for this species (Turner, 2007).\n\nAt the Tracy Aviary, we believe that the group interactions are important for proper development of the chicks, so our southern ground hornbills are………..\n\n<strong>Want to read the rest of this important and informative article? For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. JOIN NOW! </strong>', 'Cooperative Breeding Behavior in Captive Southern Ground Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1844-revision', '', '', '2011-02-04 10:24:35', '2011-02-04 15:24:35', '', 1844, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1844-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1847, 2, '2011-02-04 10:26:35', '2011-02-04 15:26:35', '<em>By\nRebecca Bates, Primary Keeper\nTracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, UT</em>\n\n<strong>Summary </strong>\nDuring the 2009 breeding season, the southern ground hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) at the Tracy Aviary were housed as a family group consisting of the dominant breeding pair and two juvenile females. Since the breeding pair had successfully raised nine chicks with varying levels of assistance, and they were not a high priority to breed, we decided to allow them to try to breed completely without assistance. We provided daily dietary enrichment of mice, chicks, rabbits, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and bugs in a manner that encouraged foraging behavior. Soon the male was displaying with food and leaves to the female and they were frequently heard calling back and forth to each other.\n\nSadly the female abandoned the first clutch half way through incubation. The eggs were candled and no signs of fertility were seen. The second clutch was developing normally when the eggs were candled half way through incubation, but one egg had a small hole. Since hornbills only raise one chick even if both eggs hatch, this egg was pulled and artificially incubated. The second chick hatched without assistance. The feedings were increased to three times per day to give the hornbills access to fresh food to feed the chick at all times. The male diligently provided the female with food as soon as the food pan was placed in the exhibit. Surprisingly, after a few days the juveniles began presenting the female with food. The male allowed this but watched very closely. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the male began to feed the female less and allow the juveniles to provide the majority of the food to the female.\n\nAs the chick grew, the female would start spending more and more time off the nest. On several occasions, the oldest juvenile was seen brooding the chick while the female was off the nest. The juveniles continued to care for the chick even after it had fledged. According to their natural history, hornbills stay with their family group for five to six years and assist in chick rearing and territorial defense. Based on my observations and their natural history, I believe much of their breeding behavior is learned. Experience watching and participating in breeding like our juveniles did, will likely make them more successful breeders. I believe that if zoos are to have a sustainable breeding population of southern ground hornbills more effort should be made to keep the juveniles with their parents for as long as possible and allow them to observe and participate on future breeding attempts.\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1845" title="ground_hornbills" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/ground_hornbills.jpg" alt="ground_hornbills" width="635" height="509" />\n\n<strong>Ground hornbill juveniles playing in their exhibit at the Tracy Aviary. </strong><strong><em>(Photo: Allyce Linder)</em></strong>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\nSouthern ground hornbills are the second largest hornbill and can be found in the savannahs and woodlands of Kenya, Burundi, Nambia, Botswana and South Africa. They are found in family groups of two to 11 birds comprised of a dominant breeding pair and several juvenile and non-dominant male helpers. These groups hunt together feeding mainly on arthropods, but they have also been seen taking larger prey such as snakes, hares and tortoises. The group is sedentary and becomes very territorial during breeding season going so far as to swoop on and killed a Verreaux’s eagle (Aquila verreauxii) when it ventured too close to the nest cavity (del Hoyo, 2001).\n\nGround hornbills are unique among hornbills because they nest in open cavities in trees or on rock cliffs instead of sealing themselves into a tree cavity. Only the dominant pair will breed. The dominate female will lay two eggs three to five days apart. The eggs are incubated for 37-43 days.  If both eggs hatch, the younger sibling will almost always die of parental neglect. During incubation and chick rearing, the dominant female is provided with food by all members of the group. The chick will fledge after 86 days but will stay with the family group for five to six years until it reaches sexual maturity and males may stay much longer (del Hoyo, 2001).\n\nAlthough the species has been classified as a species of least concern on the 2009 IUCN red list, many conservationists are concerned about the stability of the population due to the political instability of the countries within their range. They fear that a civil war could not only kill many individuals, but also destroy their habitat making it very difficult for their population to recover. The only country in which they occur that is politically stable is South Africa, and the South African population is declining. They have lost 50% of their original habitat to human encroachment and are often the victims of close association with humans through loss of large dead trees used as nest sites, incidental trapping, shooting and poisoning. For this reason, the Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation Project has been working to establish hornbill troops in the Mabula reserve in South Africa which was historically within their range. This effort entails pulling the second chick from wild nests and hand- rearing it.\n\nThe first attempt to introduce a group of hand-reared chicks was met with many obstacles. The youngsters were so naïve that they had to be provided with supplemental food and a shepherd was hired to follow the troop around. He made sure they didn’t get eaten by predators and found a proper roost for the night. This care continued until the project received an adult male from rehab whose troop had been poisoned. The male was introduced to the juveniles and he accepted them and took over care. With the adult male helping the youngsters find food and look out for predators, the troop was soon self-sufficient. 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After learning the various animal husbandry tasks of the area, and getting used to the schedule, I was given the opportunity to take on a project as part of my internship.\r\n\r\nErnie is the only male blue-necked ostrich (<em>Struthio camelus molybdophanes</em>) housed at the Zoo. He had been diagnosed with right leg lameness and was prescribed Cosequin®, a powdered joint supplement. The medicine could not be mixed in with his diet because he shared the yard with two female ostriches, and there was no guarantee that it would be delivered to him completely. Instead, a plan needed to be developed to train Ernie to approach the keepers consistently for his daily dose of medication.\r\n\r\nThough certain novel items sparked his interest enough to come within reach of zookeepers to be hand-fed, there was no reliable method in place to get him to consume the required daily amount. He would often exhibit behaviors such as refusing to come off exhibit, refusing to stand up from sitting, refusing to take medicine hidden in a variety of different food items, or walking right by the keeper and ignoring them altogether. This resulted in an average consumption of ~30% of his medication during the period of 1 March 2010 to when my training began on 15 June 2010.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" title="ostrich" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/ostrich.jpg" alt="ostrich" width="505" height="376" />\r\n<strong>Fig. 1. Ernie, the blue-necked ostrich <em>(Photo: Anna Hergt)</em></strong>\r\n\r\nOriginally, a plan needed to be developed that was realistic for the allotted three-week time period I had remaining as an intern. I began with the notion of discovering what food item was motivational, and conditioning him to a bell as soon as he became more reliable in taking that item from me. I created a behavioral log to track his progress, and began working with Ernie an average of two sessions per day.\r\n\r\n<strong>Training</strong>\r\nMy initial approaches began with attempting to lure him over using reward items such as small pieces of carrot chosen for their bright color, small apple chunks, lettuce, kale, mealworms, applesauce mixtures, regular diet grain, and wet grain. Realizing that this was not progressing in the direction I needed, I switched my approach to luring him over using enriching non-food items such as a variety of shiny silver bowls, a red grain scoop, a cow bell and a red bandana. All of these proved not be motivating enough for Ernie. He was responsive, however, to neon pink tape stuck around the edges of a silver bowl. He came over quickly to investigate the novel item, but spent very little time interacting with me and consumed very little grain.\r\n\r\nAt this point, I reevaluated my methods and came up with a training plan based on what I had discovered about Ernie. Through experimenting I was able to build a relationship with him and understand his individual behavioral traits, instead of assuming characteristics based upon research and natural history of the species. Since he wasn’t seemingly food-motivated, I spoke with other keepers about their efforts and observations when attempting to deliver his medicine. After observing many training sessions with other animals, I discovered that the training itself could be a reward. For example, one morning our male lion did not eat, but he easily took his same diet food as reward treats during a training session later in the day. I decided to figure out a way to make Ernie think that eating his medicine was fun, and be motivated to eat his medicine-laced treats by that fact alone.\r\n\r\nI also wanted to look at qualitative data in order to find trends that would lead me to the development of a more stable training plan. I looked into his medical records and daily husbandry logs through Franklin Park Zoo’s database system. I first began by looking specifically at what diet items he most often consumed. I looked back three months to 1 March, and found that if his medicine was given with grain he had an average consumption rate of ~49%. If given by other methods, this number was reduced to only ~15%. This is all relative to the total average consumption of ~30% during that time period, as previously mentioned. 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font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><img class="size-full wp-image-378 aligncenter" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="317" height="68" />Where you can share your training experiences!</span></strong>\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><em>Training Tales Editors: Jay Pratte, Omaha\'s Henry Doorly Zoo</em></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><em>Kim Kezer, Zoo New England; and Angela Binney, Disney\'s Animal Kingdom</em></span></p>\n<p style="text-align: left;"></p>\n\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><em>Through positive-reinforcement training, an ostrich is\nsuccessfully conditioned to take a daily dose of medicine\n\nBy Anna Hergt, Animal Management Intern\nZoo New England, Boston, MA</em></span>\n\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><strong>Background</strong>\nIn June 2010, I began a 10-week internship in the Hooves and Horns area at Zoo New England’s Franklin Park Zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts. After learning the various animal husbandry tasks of the area, and getting used to the schedule, I was given the opportunity to take on a project as part of my internship.\n\nErnie is the only male blue-necked ostrich (Struthio camelus molybdophanes) housed at the Zoo. He had been diagnosed with right leg lameness and was prescribed Cosequin®, a powdered joint supplement. The medicine could not be mixed in with his diet because he shared the yard with two female ostriches, and there was no guarantee that it would be delivered to him completely. Instead, a plan needed to be developed to train Ernie to approach the keepers consistently for his daily dose of medication.\n\nThough certain novel items sparked his interest enough to come within reach of zookeepers to be hand-fed, there was no reliable method in place to get him to consume the required daily amount. He would often exhibit behaviors such as refusing to come off exhibit, refusing to stand up from sitting, refusing to take medicine hidden in a variety of different food items, or walking right by the keeper and ignoring them altogether. This resulted in an average consumption of ~30% of his medication during the period of 1 March 2010 to when my training began on 15 June 2010.\n\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" title="ostrich" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/ostrich.jpg" alt="ostrich" width="505" height="376" />\n<strong>Fig. 1. Ernie, the blue-necked ostrich <em>(Photo: Anna Hergt)</em></strong>\n\nOriginally, a plan needed to be developed that was realistic for the allotted three-week time period I had remaining as an intern. I began with the notion of discovering what food item was motivational, and conditioning him to a bell as soon as he became more reliable in taking that item from me. I created a behavioral log to track his progress, and began working with Ernie an average of two sessions per day.\n\nTraining\nMy initial approaches began with attempting to lure him over using reward items such as small pieces of carrot chosen for their bright color, small apple chunks, lettuce, kale, mealworms, applesauce mixtures, regular diet grain, and wet grain. Realizing that this was not progressing in the direction I needed, I switched my approach to luring him over using enriching non-food items such as a variety of shiny silver bowls, a red grain scoop, a cow bell and a red bandana. All of these proved not be motivating enough for Ernie. He was responsive, however, to neon pink tape stuck around the edges of a silver bowl. He came over quickly to investigate the novel item, but spent very little time interacting with me and consumed very little grain.\n\nAt this point, I reevaluated my methods and came up with a training plan based on what I had discovered about Ernie. Through experimenting I was able to build a relationship with him and understand his individual behavioral traits, instead of assuming characteristics based upon research and natural history of the species. Since he wasn’t seemingly food-motivated, I spoke with other keepers about their efforts and observations when attempting to deliver his medicine. After observing many training sessions with other animals, I discovered that the training itself could be a reward. For example, one morning our male lion did not eat, but he easily took his same diet food as reward treats during a training session later in the day. I decided to figure out a way to make Ernie think that eating his medicine was fun, and be motivated to eat his medicine-laced treats by that fact alone.\n\nI also wanted to look at qualitative data in order to find trends that would lead me to the development of a more stable training plan. I looked into his medical records and daily husbandry logs through Franklin Park Zoo’s database system. I first began by looking specifically at what diet items he most often consumed. I looked back three months to 1 March, and found that if his medicine was given with grain he had an average consumption rate of ~49%. If given by other methods, this number was reduced to only ~15%. This is all relative to the total average consumption of ~30% during that time period, as previously mentioned. From this data, I decided to use his regular diet grain for training and delivering medicine.\n\nLooking next at his average consumption rates at different times of the day, I found that he…….\n<em><strong>\nWant to read the rest of this column? 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<![endif]--><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><img class="size-full wp-image-378 aligncenter" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="317" height="68" />Where you can share your training experiences!</span></strong>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><em>Training Tales Editors: Jay Pratte, Omaha\'s Henry Doorly Zoo</em></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><em>Kim Kezer, Zoo New England; and Angela Binney, Disney\'s Animal Kingdom</em></span></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"></p>\r\n\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><em>Through positive-reinforcement training, an ostrich is\r\nsuccessfully conditioned to take a daily dose of medicine\r\n\r\nBy Anna Hergt, Animal Management Intern\r\nZoo New England, Boston, MA</em></span>\r\n\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;;"><strong>Background</strong>\r\nIn June 2010, I began a 10-week internship in the Hooves and Horns area at Zoo New England’s Franklin Park Zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts. After learning the various animal husbandry tasks of the area, and getting used to the schedule, I was given the opportunity to take on a project as part of my internship.\r\n\r\nErnie is the only male blue-necked ostrich (Struthio camelus molybdophanes) housed at the Zoo. He had been diagnosed with right leg lameness and was prescribed Cosequin®, a powdered joint supplement. The medicine could not be mixed in with his diet because he shared the yard with two female ostriches, and there was no guarantee that it would be delivered to him completely. Instead, a plan needed to be developed to train Ernie to approach the keepers consistently for his daily dose of medication.\r\n\r\nThough certain novel items sparked his interest enough to come within reach of zookeepers to be hand-fed, there was no reliable method in place to get him to consume the required daily amount. He would often exhibit behaviors such as refusing to come off exhibit, refusing to stand up from sitting, refusing to take medicine hidden in a variety of different food items, or walking right by the keeper and ignoring them altogether. This resulted in an average consumption of ~30% of his medication during the period of 1 March 2010 to when my training began on 15 June 2010.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" title="ostrich" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/ostrich.jpg" alt="ostrich" width="505" height="376" />\r\n<strong>Fig. 1. Ernie, the blue-necked ostrich <em>(Photo: Anna Hergt)</em></strong>\r\n\r\nOriginally, a plan needed to be developed that was realistic for the allotted three-week time period I had remaining as an intern. I began with the notion of discovering what food item was motivational, and conditioning him to a bell as soon as he became more reliable in taking that item from me. I created a behavioral log to track his progress, and began working with Ernie an average of two sessions per day.\r\n\r\n<strong>Training</strong>\r\nMy initial approaches began with attempting to lure him over using reward items such as small pieces of carrot chosen for their bright color, small apple chunks, lettuce, kale, mealworms, applesauce mixtures, regular diet grain, and wet grain. Realizing that this was not progressing in the direction I needed, I switched my approach to luring him over using enriching non-food items such as a variety of shiny silver bowls, a red grain scoop, a cow bell and a red bandana. All of these proved not be motivating enough for Ernie. He was responsive, however, to neon pink tape stuck around the edges of a silver bowl. He came over quickly to investigate the novel item, but spent very little time interacting with me and consumed very little grain.\r\n\r\nAt this point, I reevaluated my methods and came up with a training plan based on what I had discovered about Ernie. Through experimenting I was able to build a relationship with him and understand his individual behavioral traits, instead of assuming characteristics based upon research and natural history of the species. Since he wasn’t seemingly food-motivated, I spoke with other keepers about their efforts and observations when attempting to deliver his medicine. After observing many training sessions with other animals, I discovered that the training itself could be a reward. For example, one morning our male lion did not eat, but he easily took his same diet food as reward treats during a training session later in the day. I decided to figure out a way to make Ernie think that eating his medicine was fun, and be motivated to eat his medicine-laced treats by that fact alone.\r\n\r\nI also wanted to look at qualitative data in order to find trends that would lead me to the development of a more stable training plan. I looked into his medical records and daily husbandry logs through Franklin Park Zoo’s database system. I first began by looking specifically at what diet items he most often consumed. I looked back three months to 1 March, and found that if his medicine was given with grain he had an average consumption rate of ~49%. If given by other methods, this number was reduced to only ~15%. This is all relative to the total average consumption of ~30% during that time period, as previously mentioned. From this data, I decided to use his regular diet grain for training and delivering medicine.\r\n\r\nLooking next at his average consumption rates at different times of the day, I found that he…….\r\n<em><strong>\r\nWant to read the rest of this column? Become a member of AAZK and get 12 issues of Animal Keepers’ Forum each year featuring this column as well as lots of animal husbandry, enrichment and training information. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW!</a></strong></em>\r\n\r\n</span>', 'Getting Ernie to Take His Medicine', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1848-revision-2', '', '', '2011-02-04 10:39:26', '2011-02-04 15:39:26', '', 1848, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1848-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2103, 2, '2011-09-02 10:50:48', '2011-09-02 15:50:48', '<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-825" title="enrichment_options" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/enrichment_options.jpg" alt="enrichment_options" width="482" height="189" />\r\n\r\n<em>By\r\nDeborah Wettlaufer, Enrichment Officer\r\nCheetah Outreach\r\nCape Town, South Africa</em>\r\n\r\nOur caracal (<em>Caracal caracal</em>) is very food-motivated and always eats rapidly.  Because she lacks her back molars, we cannot give her small bones, such as chicken on the bone, but we sometimes give her large turkey or horse bones to prolong feeding.  As a special treat, she is occasionally given a ‘bloodsicle’ made of frozen blood and pieces of meat.  To provide more of a challenge, I decided to hang a larger bloodsicle for her.  I froze blood and 150g (~5.3 oz.) of turkey pieces in a medium-sized plastic container with a string with knots inserted through a hole in the middle of the top so it would freeze in the center of the bloodsicle.\r\n\r\nTo make it even more interesting for her, we hung the bloodsicle from a bungee feeder.  The bungee feeder consists of one meter of bungee cord with one end attached to a length of nylon cord with a clip on the end to attach it to the top of the enclosure.  The other end also has a clip from which various food items can be attached.  The bungee cord is contained within one meter of garden hose to prevent it from wrapping around any of the animal’s extremities or swinging back in the animal’s face.\r\n\r\nAfter we hung the bloodsicle, she immediately came to investigate it.  At first she seemed a little confused about how to approach it since she is used to her bloodsicles on a flat surface.  She tried to lick the bloodsicle from a standing position but every time she licked it, it moved about.  She constantly moved around it to gain a better position, batting at it and trying to grab it when it moved.    Eventually she figured out that sitting down and holding it with one paw kept it from moving around so she could lick continuously.  If the bloodsicle moved at all, she dug her claws in deeper to stabilize it.  As blood dripped on to her fur, she stopped a few times to clean herself, and then resumed licking.  While licking, she appeared as though she was in a trance, oblivious to everything around her.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2104" title="caracal_bloodsicle" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/caracal_bloodsicle.jpg" alt="caracal_bloodsicle" width="417" height="620" />\r\n\r\nAs she licked the bloodsicle, the meat at the bottom gradually was exposed and she became very excited.  She tried a new tactic of grabbing the meat with her teeth and trying to rip it out of the bloodsicle.  Occasionally she tried to carry the whole bloodsicle off but it bounced away from her and she ran after it, grabbed it and began ripping at the meat again.  She worked at it until the bloodsicle and meat were gone.\r\n\r\nWe considered this exercise successful in that it prolonged feeding, challenged her cognitive skills and kept a very intelligent and active cat busy for almost 45 minutes.\r\n\r\n<strong>BHC Comments by Enrichment Options Co-Editor Julie Hartell-DeNardo:</strong>\r\nDeborah, thank you for sharing your paper with the AAZK Forum readers.  This is a great example of using a food presentation-based enrichment strategy to increase both the behaviors involved in food consumption as well as the amount of time spent engaged in food acquisition-related behaviors.  The animal is stimulated mentally to figure out how to obtain the more challenging and enticing food.  Additionally the caracal participated in more physical activity, using more muscles and energy than it would if just presented with food in a routine location.  This creative feeding strategy could be effective with other small carnivore species or even large carnivores – or if the meat and blood are substituted for produce and juice this idea may even translate into primate species applications.\r\n\r\nSome safety considerations to keep in mind with bungee and rope enrichment components is to:\r\n\r\n•   ensure no loops exists that could act to trap an appendage or head,\r\n•   determine a length that minimizes slack and prevents the possibility of excess to wrap around an animal or body part, and\r\n•   when possible, enclose rope/bungees in pvc or other piping that can act to stabilize the length of the rope/bungee and prevents wrap around or dangerous loops from forming while the animal is engaged with the enrichment.\r\n\r\nThanks again to Deborah for this fantastic idea with diverse potential applications!\r\n\r\n<strong>Want to discover more great enrichment ideas? 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1862, 2, '2011-02-17 15:30:32', '2011-02-17 20:30:32', '<ul style="text-align: left;">\r\n	<li><strong>Absolute Primate Enrichment Systems</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates\r\n(817) 228-2281\r\n<a href="http://www.absoluteprimate.com ">www.absoluteprimate.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>American Excelsior Company</strong>\r\nWoodwool Substrates\r\n(800) 326-3626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.amerexcel.com/">www.amerexcel.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Animal Management Resources</strong>\r\n(910) 246-6263\r\n<a href="http://www.mytrainingstore.com">www.mytrainingstore.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:meg@mytrainingstore.com">meg@mytrainingstore.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Aussie Dog Products</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for dogs, horses and zoo animals\r\n+61 (0)3 9752-3336  FAX +61 (0)3 9758-3020\r\n<a href="http://www.aussiedog.com.au">www.aussiedog.com.au</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>BCI Burke Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nPlayground Structures\r\n800-266-1250 FAX  (414) 921-9566\r\n\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:info@bciburke.com">info@bciburke.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.bciburke.com/">www.bciburke.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Bio-Serve</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates, dogs, pigs, rodents\r\n(908) 996-2155 FAX  (908) 996-4123\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.bio-serv.com">www.bio-serv.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Birds Just Wanna Have Fun</strong>\r\nBird toys\r\n1-800-246-1018 or (512) 401-0536\r\n\r\nE-mail: <a href="mailto:info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com">info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com/">www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Boomer Ball®, Inc.</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(888) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6125\r\nFAX (800) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6185</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Busy Beaks</strong>\r\nBird toys\r\n<a href="http://www.busybeaks.com">www.busybeaks.com</a>\r\n458 Lucher Rd.\r\nWillis, TX 77378\r\n(936)344-8400 (phone)\r\n(936)344-8406 (fax)\r\n<a href="mailto:BusyBeaksToys@aol.com">BusyBeaksToys@aol.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Caning Company</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(800) 544-3373\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.caning.com/">www.caning.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Choppers Toys/Design-Rite Products</strong>\r\n101 North 55th    Street Unit #4\r\nPhoenix AZ 85034\r\n(480) 945-8406\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.chopperstoys.com/">www.chopperstoys.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Desert Plastics</strong>\r\n2401A Phoenix, NE\r\nAlbuquerque, NM 87107\r\nPhone: (505) 884-3889\r\nFax: (505) 884-3932\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.desertplastics-abq.com/">www.desertplastics-abq.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Doctors Fosters Smith</strong>\r\nPet Supply\r\n(800) 826-7206\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.drsfostersmith.com/">www.drsfostersmith.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Duracast Products, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment products\r\n(800) 683-4116  FAX (863) 638-2443\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.duracast.com">http://www.duracast.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Edible Landscaping</strong>\r\nEdible Plants\r\n800-524-4156 FAX  (434) 361-1916<a href="http://www.eat-it.com/">www.eat-it.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>E Street Plastics</strong>\r\nAcrylic mirrors, plexi and lexan\r\n(972) 207-0936\r\n<a href="http://www.estreetplastics.com ">www.estreetplastics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@estreetplastics.com">sales@estreetplastics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ethical, Inc.</strong>\r\nVinyl chew toys, squish balls\r\n(973) 484-1000\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ethicalpet.com/">www.ethicalpet.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Exotic Creations</strong>\r\nBird Toys\r\n(612) 785-0376\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.exoticreations.com">www.exoticreations.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fauna-Tek</strong>\r\nNew England Exotics, Inc.\r\n71 Michaels Rd.\r\nWells, ME 04090\r\n207-646-7173\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.fauna-tek.net">www.fauna-tek.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fluker Farms</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(800) 735-8537\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.flukerfarms.com">www.flukerfarms.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Injoy Coursing Equipment</strong>\r\nCoursing Lures\r\n(802) 425-3691 FAX  (802) 425-4468\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.injoy-1.com">www.injoy-1.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>International Cordage</strong>\r\nRope Structures\r\n(602) 252-3155\r\nFAX  (602) 252-3053\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.internationalcordage.com/">www.internationalcordage.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jeffer’s Pet Supply</strong>\r\nPet &amp; 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zoo animals\r\n(781) 331-8557\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.theleatherelves.com">www.theleatherelves.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Lomir Primate Enrichment Technologies</strong>\r\nPrimate enrichment products\r\n(877) 425-3604\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.lomir.com/pet">www.lomir.com/pet</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Omaha Vaccine Company</strong>\r\nPet Supplies\r\n800-367-4444\r\nFAX 800-242-9447\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.omahavaccine.com/">www.omahavaccine.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Otto Environmental</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(414) 358-1001\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ottoenvironmental.com/">www.ottoenvironmental.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Pacific Fibre and Rope Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo nets and rope ladders\r\nFAX (310) 835-6781\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.pacificfibre.com/">www.pacificfibre.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:pacfib@worldnet.att.net">pacfib@worldnet.att.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Primate Products</strong>\r\n<a href="http://www.primateproducts.com ">www.primateproducts.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>PetsMart</strong>\r\n19601 N. 27th    Ave.\r\nPhoenix,  AZ. 85027\r\n(800) 738-1385\r\nPet supplies: <a href="http://www.petsmart.com/">www.petsmart.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Rotonics</strong>\r\nCustom rotational plastics molding &amp; buoys\r\n(800) 351-1363\r\n<a href="http://www.rotonics.com ">www.rotonics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:buoys@rotonics.com">buoys@rotonics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Safari Thatch, Inc.</strong>\r\nBamboo Products\r\n(954) 564-0059\r\nFAX (954) 564-7431\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.safarithatch.com/">www.safarithatch.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sanctuary Supplies</strong>\r\n4300 Pletzer    Blvd.\r\nRootstown,   OH. 44272\r\n(877) 886-1992\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sanctuarysupplies.com">www.sanctuarysupplies.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Seeds of Change</strong>\r\nOrganic seeds for edible plants\r\nFAX (505) 438-7052\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.seedsofchange.com/">www.seedsofchange.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SINCO Group, Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo Nets\r\nFAX (860) 632-1509\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sinco.com/">www.sinco.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@sincosala.com">sales@sincosala.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SitStay</strong>\r\nTraining Clickers\r\nFAX (402) 467-5055\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sitstay.com/">www.sitstay.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>StarBird</strong>\r\nZoo Enrichment\r\n(310) 489-8868\r\nFAX (310) 828-5129\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.estarbird.com/">www.estarbird.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sweeney Enterprises, Inc.</strong>\r\nAutomatic Feeders\r\n(800) 443-4244\r\nFAX (800) 337-5017\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sweeneyfeeders.com">www.sweeneyfeeders.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>That Pet Place</strong>\r\n<a href="http://www.thatpetplace.com ">www.thatpetplace.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Twin Leather Company</strong>\r\nBird toy parts and supplies\r\n(508) 583-3485\r\nFAX (508) 586-4501\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.twinleather.com/">www.twinleather.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@twinleather.com">sales@twinleather.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Valentine Inc.\r\n</strong>Zoological supplies\r\nFAX  (239) 645 4682\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.valentineinc.com/">www.valentineinc.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Welburn Gourd Farm</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(760)728-4271\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.welburngourdfarm.com">www.welburngourdfarm.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>World Champion Horse Equipment</strong>\r\nEquine Supply\r\n(931) 684-0496\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ehorseequipment.com">www.ehorseequipment.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Zoomed Laboratories</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(805) 542-9988  FAX (805) 542-9295\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.zoomed.com/">www.zoomed.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:zoomed@zoomed.com">zoomed@zoomed.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Enrichment Suppliers', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '324-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-02-17 15:30:32', '2011-02-17 20:30:32', '', 324, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/324-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1865, 2, '2011-02-17 15:22:22', '2011-02-17 20:22:22', '<ul style="text-align: left;">\r\n	<li><strong>Absolute Primate Enrichment Systems</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates\r\n(817) 228-2281\r\n<a href="http://www.absoluteprimate.com ">www.absoluteprimate.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>American Excelsior Company</strong>\r\nWoodwool Substrates\r\n(800) 326-3626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.amerexcel.com/">www.amerexcel.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Animal Management Resources</strong>\r\n(910) 246-6263\r\n<a href="http://www.mytrainingstore.com">www.mytrainingstore.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:meg@mytrainingstore.com">meg@mytrainingstore.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Aussie Dog Products</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for dogs, horses and zoo animals\r\n+61 (0)3 9752-3336  FAX +61 (0)3 9758-3020\r\n<a href="http://www.aussiedog.com.au">www.aussiedog.com.au</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>BCI Burke Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nPlayground Structures\r\n800-266-1250 FAX  (414) 921-9566\r\n\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:info@bciburke.com">info@bciburke.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.bciburke.com/">www.bciburke.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Bio-Serve</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates, dogs, pigs, rodents\r\n(908) 996-2155 FAX  (908) 996-4123\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.bio-serv.com">www.bio-serv.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Birds Just Wanna Have Fun</strong>\r\nBird toys\r\n1-800-246-1018 or (512) 401-0536\r\n\r\nE-mail: <a href="mailto:info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com">info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com/">www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Boomer Ball®, Inc.</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(888) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6125\r\nFAX (800) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6185</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Busy Beaks</strong> (toys for birds)\r\n<a href="http://www.busybeaks.com">www.busybeaks.com</a>\r\n458 Lucher Rd.\r\nWillis, TX 77378\r\n(936)344-8400 (phone)\r\n(936)344-8406 (fax)\r\n<a href="mailto:BusyBeaksToys@aol.com">BusyBeaksToys@aol.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Caning Company</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(800) 544-3373\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.caning.com/">www.caning.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Choppers Toys/Design-Rite Products</strong>\r\n101 North 55th    Street Unit #4\r\nPhoenix AZ 85034\r\n(480) 945-8406\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.chopperstoys.com/">www.chopperstoys.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Desert Plastics</strong>\r\n2401A Phoenix, NE\r\nAlbuquerque, NM 87107\r\nPhone: (505) 884-3889\r\nFax: (505) 884-3932\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.desertplastics-abq.com/">www.desertplastics-abq.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Doctors Fosters Smith</strong>\r\nPet Supply\r\n(800) 826-7206\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.drsfostersmith.com/">www.drsfostersmith.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Duracast Products, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment products\r\n(800) 683-4116  FAX (863) 638-2443\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.duracast.com">http://www.duracast.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Edible Landscaping</strong>\r\nEdible Plants\r\n800-524-4156 FAX  (434) 361-1916<a href="http://www.eat-it.com/">www.eat-it.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>E Street Plastics</strong>\r\nAcrylic mirrors, plexi and lexan\r\n(972) 207-0936\r\n<a href="http://www.estreetplastics.com ">www.estreetplastics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@estreetplastics.com">sales@estreetplastics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ethical, Inc.</strong>\r\nVinyl chew toys, squish balls\r\n(973) 484-1000\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ethicalpet.com/">www.ethicalpet.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Exotic Creations</strong>\r\nBird Toys\r\n(612) 785-0376\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.exoticreations.com">www.exoticreations.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fauna-Tek</strong>\r\nNew England Exotics, Inc.\r\n71 Michaels Rd.\r\nWells, ME 04090\r\n207-646-7173\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.fauna-tek.net">www.fauna-tek.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fluker Farms</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(800) 735-8537\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.flukerfarms.com">www.flukerfarms.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Injoy Coursing Equipment</strong>\r\nCoursing Lures\r\n(802) 425-3691 FAX  (802) 425-4468\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.injoy-1.com">www.injoy-1.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>International Cordage</strong>\r\nRope Structures\r\n(602) 252-3155\r\nFAX  (602) 252-3053\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.internationalcordage.com/">www.internationalcordage.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jeffer’s Pet Supply</strong>\r\nPet &amp; livestock supplies\r\n(800) 533-3377\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.jefferspet.com">www.jefferspet.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.jefferslivestock.com">www.jefferslivestock.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jolly Pets</strong>\r\nHorseman’s Pride\r\nHeavy duty plastic toys\r\n10008 State Rt. 43\r\nStreetsboro, OH. 44241\r\n<a href="http://www.jollypets.com/HorsemenHome.html">http://www.jollypets.com/HorsemenHome.html</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:cservice@jollypets.com">cservice@jollypets.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Kong Company</strong>\r\nKong toys\r\n16191 Table Mountain Parkway\r\nGolden, CO 80403\r\n(303)  216-2626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.kongcompany.com/">http://www.kongcompany.com/</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Kracor, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment feeders &amp; toys\r\n(800) 255-6335\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.kracor.com">www.kracor.com</a>\r\nemail:  <a href="mailto:custormerservice@kracor.com">custormerservice@kracor.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Larson Company</strong>\r\n"The Stump" enrichment  device\r\n(520) 294-3900 FAX  (520) 741-7930\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.larson-usa.com">www.larson-usa.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Leather Elves</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for birds &amp; zoo animals\r\n(781) 331-8557\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.theleatherelves.com">www.theleatherelves.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Lomir Primate Enrichment Technologies</strong>\r\nPrimate enrichment products\r\n(877) 425-3604\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.lomir.com/pet">www.lomir.com/pet</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Omaha Vaccine Company</strong>\r\nPet Supplies\r\n800-367-4444\r\nFAX 800-242-9447\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.omahavaccine.com/">www.omahavaccine.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Otto Environmental</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(414) 358-1001\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ottoenvironmental.com/">www.ottoenvironmental.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Pacific Fibre and Rope Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo nets and rope ladders\r\nFAX (310) 835-6781\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.pacificfibre.com/">www.pacificfibre.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:pacfib@worldnet.att.net">pacfib@worldnet.att.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Primate Products</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates\r\n(305) 471-9557\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.primateproducts.com/enrichment/htm">www.primateproducts.com/enrichment/htm</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>PetsMart</strong>\r\n19601 N. 27th    Ave.\r\nPhoenix,  AZ. 85027\r\n(800) 738-1385\r\nPet supplies\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.petsmart.com/">www.petsmart.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Safari Thatch, Inc.</strong>\r\nBamboo Products\r\n(954) 564-0059\r\nFAX (954) 564-7431\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.safarithatch.com/">www.safarithatch.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sanctuary Supplies</strong>\r\n4300 Pletzer    Blvd.\r\nRootstown,   OH. 44272\r\n(877) 886-1992\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.santuarysupplies.com/">www.santuarysupplies.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Seeds of Change</strong>\r\nOrganic seeds for edible plants\r\nFAX (505) 438-7052\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.seedsofchange.com/">www.seedsofchange.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SINCO Group, Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo Nets\r\nFAX (860) 632-1509\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sinco.com/">www.sinco.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@sincosala.com">sales@sincosala.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SitStay</strong>\r\nTraining Clickers\r\nFAX (402) 467-5055\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sitstay.com/">www.sitstay.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>StarBird</strong>\r\nZoo Enrichment\r\n(310) 489-8868\r\nFAX (310) 828-5129\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.estarbird.com/">www.estarbird.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sweeney Enterprises, Inc.</strong>\r\nAutomatic Feeders\r\n(800) 443-4244\r\nFAX (800) 337-5017\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sweeneyfeeders.com">www.sweeneyfeeders.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>That Fish Place  and Pet Place</strong>\r\nAquarium Supplies\r\nFAX (800) 786-3829\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.thatpetplace.com/intro/mainf.html">www.thatpetplace.com/intro/mainf.html</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Toys for Habitats/Rotocast</strong>\r\nHeavy duty plastic balls\r\n(800) 537-8888 or (865) 522-9902 FAX (865) 524-0170\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.rotonics.com/">www.rotonics.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.rotonics.com/petcast/habitat.pdf">www.rotonics.com/petcast/habitat.pdf</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:tennesseee@rotonics.com">tennesseee@rotonics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Twin Leather Company</strong>\r\nBird toy parts and supplies\r\n(508) 583-3485\r\nFAX (508) 586-4501\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.twinleather.com/">www.twinleather.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@twinleather.com">sales@twinleather.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Valentine Herpetological Supplies</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n800-438-7883\r\nFAX (630) 243-8882\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.valentineinc.com/">www.valentineinc.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Welburn Gourd Farm</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(760)728-4271\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.welburngourdfarm.com">www.welburngourdfarm.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>World Champion Horse Equipment</strong>\r\nEquine Supply\r\n(931) 684-0496\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ehorseequipment.com">www.ehorseequipment.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Zoomed Laboratories</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(805) 542-9988  FAX (805) 542-9295\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.zoomed.com/">www.zoomed.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:zoomed@zoomed.com">zoomed@zoomed.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Enrichment Suppliers', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '324-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-17 15:22:22', '2011-02-17 20:22:22', '', 324, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/324-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1863, 1, '2009-05-31 14:24:22', '2009-05-31 19:24:22', '<ul>\r\n	<li><p><strong>American Excelsior Company</strong> <br />\r\n      Woodwool Substrates <br />\r\n      (800) 326-3626 </p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.amerexcel.com/">www.amerexcel.com</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Animal Management Resources</strong><br />\r\n      Training and enrichment gear<br />\r\n      (708) 352-3636 (office)  (708) 369- 3626 (mobile)</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.amrchicago.com">www.amrchicago.com</a><br />\r\n      email: <a href="mailto:meg@amrchicago.com">meg@amrchicago.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Aussie Dog Products</strong><br />\r\n      Enrichment devices for dogs, horses and zoo animals<br />\r\n      +61 (0)3 9752-3336  FAX +61 (0)3 9758-3020</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.aussiedog.com.au">www.aussiedog.com.au</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>BCI Burke Co., Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Playground Structures<br />\r\n      800-266-1250 FAX  (414) 921-9566</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p>email: <a href="mailto:info@bciburke.com">info@bciburke.com</a><br />\r\n      <a href="http://www.bciburke.com/">www.bciburke.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Bio-Serve</strong><br />\r\n      Enrichment devices for primates, dogs, pigs, rodents<br />\r\n      (908) 996-2155 FAX  (908) 996-4123</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.bio-serv.com">www.bio-serv.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Birds Just Wanna Have Fun</strong><br />\r\n      Bird toys<br />\r\n      1-800-246-1018 or (512) 401-0536</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p>E-mail: <a href="mailto:info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com">info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a> <br />\r\n      <a href="http://www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com/">www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Boomer Ball®, Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Enrichment devices for zoo animals<br />\r\n      (888) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6125<br />\r\n      FAX (800) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6185</p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>The Caning Company</strong><br />\r\n      Gourds<br />\r\n      (800) 544-3373</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.caning.com/">www.caning.com</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Choppers Toys/Design-Rite Products</strong><br />\r\n      101 North 55th    Street Unit #4 <br />\r\n      Phoenix AZ 85034 <br />\r\n      (480) 945-8406</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.chopperstoys.com/">www.chopperstoys.com</a></p></li>\r\n  \r\n  <li><p><strong>Desert Plastics</strong><br />\r\n      2401A Phoenix, NE<br />\r\n      Albuquerque, NM 87107<br />\r\n      Phone: (505) 884-3889<br />\r\n      Fax: (505) 884-3932</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.desertplastics-abq.com/">www.desertplastics-abq.com</a></p></li>\r\n  \r\n  <li><p><strong>Doctors Fosters Smith</strong><br />\r\n      Pet Supply<br />\r\n      (800) 826-7206</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.drsfostersmith.com/">www.drsfostersmith.com</a></p></li>\r\n  \r\n  <li><p><strong>Duracast Products, Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Plastic enrichment products<br />\r\n      (800) 683-4116  FAX (863) 638-2443</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.duracast.com">http://www.duracast.com</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Edible Landscaping</strong><br />\r\n      Edible Plants<br />\r\n      800-524-4156 FAX  (434) 361-1916</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.eat-it.com/">www.eat-it.com </a> </p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Ethical, Inc.</strong> <br />\r\n      Vinyl chew toys, squish balls <br />\r\n      (973) 484-1000</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.ethicalpet.com/">www.ethicalpet.com</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Exotic Creations</strong> <br />\r\n      Bird Toys <br />\r\n      (612) 785-0376</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.exoticreations.com">www.exoticreations.com</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Fauna-Tek</strong><br />\r\n      New England Exotics, Inc.<br />\r\n      71 Michaels Rd.<br />\r\n      Wells, ME 04090<br />\r\n      207-646-7173</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.fauna-tek.com/">www.fauna-tek.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Fluker Farms</strong><br />\r\n      Herpetological Supplies <br />\r\n      (800) 735-8537</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.flukerfarms.com">www.flukerfarms.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Injoy Coursing Equipment</strong><br />\r\n      Coursing Lures <br />\r\n      (802) 425-3691 FAX  (802) 425-4468</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p> <a href="http://www.injoy-1.com">www.injoy-1.com</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>International Cordage</strong> <br />\r\n      Rope Structures <br />\r\n      (602) 252-3155<br />\r\n      FAX  (602) 252-3053</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.internationalcordage.com/">www.internationalcordage.com</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Jeffer’s Pet Supply</strong> <br />\r\n      Pet &amp; livestock supplies <br />\r\n      (800) 533-3377</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.jefferspet.com">www.jefferspet.com</a><br />\r\n      <a href="http://www.jefferslivestock.com">www.jefferslivestock.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Jolly Pets</strong> <br />\r\n      Horsemen\'s Pride Incorporated<br />\r\n      219 South Sycamore Street<br />\r\n      Ravenna, Ohio 44266<br />\r\n      1-800-232-7950</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.sportote.com/html/Zoo.html">http://www.sportote.com/html/Zoo.html</a><br />\r\n      Heavy duty plastic balls</p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>The Kong Company</strong><br />\r\n      Kong toys<br />\r\n      16191 Table Mountain Parkway<br />\r\n      Golden, CO 80403<br />\r\n      (303)  216-2626</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.kongcompany.com/">http://www.kongcompany.com/</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Kracor, Inc.</strong> <br />\r\n      Plastic enrichment feeders &amp; toys <br />\r\n      (800) 255-6335</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.kracor.com">www.kracor.com</a> <br />\r\n      email:  <a href="mailto:custormerservice@kracor.com">custormerservice@kracor.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>The Larson Company</strong> <br />\r\n      "The Stump" enrichment  device <br />\r\n      (520) 294-3900 FAX  (520) 741-7930</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.larson-usa.com">www.larson-usa.com</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Leather Elves</strong> <br />\r\n      Enrichment devices for birds &amp; zoo animals <br />\r\n      (781) 331-8557</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.theleatherelves.com">www.theleatherelves.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Lomir Primate Enrichment Technologies</strong> <br />\r\n      Primate enrichment products <br />\r\n      (877) 425-3604</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.lomir.com/pet">www.lomir.com/pet</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Omaha Vaccine Company</strong> <br />\r\n      Pet Supplies<br />\r\n      800-367-4444<br />\r\n      FAX 800-242-9447</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.omahavaccine.com/">www.omahavaccine.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Otto Environmental</strong><br />\r\n      Enrichment devices for zoo animals<br />\r\n      (414) 358-1001</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.ottoenvironmental.com/">www.ottoenvironmental.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Pacific Fibre and Rope Co., Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Cargo nets and rope ladders<br />\r\n      FAX (310) 835-6781</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.pacificfibre.com/">www.pacificfibre.com</a><br />\r\n      email: <a href="mailto:pacfib@worldnet.att.net">pacfib@worldnet.att.net</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Primate Products</strong><br />\r\n      Enrichment devices for primates<br />\r\n      (305) 471-9557</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.primateproducts.com/enrichment/htm">www.primateproducts.com/enrichment/htm</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>PetsMart</strong><br />\r\n      19601 N. 27th    Ave.<br />\r\n      Phoenix,  AZ. 85027<br />\r\n      (800) 738-1385<br />\r\n      Pet supplies</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.petsmart.com/">www.petsmart.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Safari Thatch, Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Bamboo Products<br />\r\n      (954) 564-0059<br />\r\n      FAX (954) 564-7431</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.safarithatch.com/">www.safarithatch.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Sanctuary Supplies</strong><br />\r\n      4300 Pletzer    Blvd.<br />\r\n      Rootstown,   OH. 44272<br />\r\n      (877) 886-1992</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.santuarysupplies.com/">www.santuarysupplies.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Seeds of Change</strong><br />\r\n      Organic seeds for edible plants<br />\r\n      FAX (505) 438-7052</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.seedsofchange.com/">www.seedsofchange.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>SINCO Group, Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Cargo Nets<br />\r\n      FAX (860) 632-1509</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.sinco.com/">www.sinco.com</a><br />\r\n      email: <a href="mailto:sales@sincosala.com">sales@sincosala.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>SitStay</strong><br />\r\n      Training Clickers<br />\r\n      FAX (402) 467-5055</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.sitstay.com/">www.sitstay.com</a></p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>StarBird</strong> <br />\r\n      Zoo Enrichment<br />\r\n      (310) 489-8868<br />\r\n      FAX (310) 828-5129</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.estarbird.com/">www.estarbird.com</a> </p></li>\r\n\r\n  <li><p><strong>Sweeney Enterprises, Inc.</strong><br />\r\n      Automatic Feeders<br />\r\n      (800) 443-4244<br />\r\n      FAX (800) 337-5017</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.sweeneyfeeders.com">www.sweeneyfeeders.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>That Fish Place  and Pet Place</strong><br />\r\n      Aquarium Supplies<br />\r\n      FAX (800) 786-3829</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.thatpetplace.com/intro/mainf.html">www.thatpetplace.com/intro/mainf.html</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Toys for Habitats/Rotocast</strong><br />\r\n      Heavy duty plastic balls<br />\r\n      (800) 537-8888 or (865) 522-9902 FAX (865) 524-0170</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.rotonics.com/">www.rotonics.com</a><br />\r\n      <a href="http://www.rotonics.com/petcast/habitat.pdf">www.rotonics.com/petcast/habitat.pdf</a><br />\r\n      email: <a href="mailto:tennesseee@rotonics.com">tennesseee@rotonics.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Twin Leather Company</strong><br />\r\n      Bird toy parts and supplies<br />\r\n      (508) 583-3485<br />\r\n      FAX (508) 586-4501</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.twinleather.com/">www.twinleather.com</a> <br />\r\n      email: <a href="mailto:sales@twinleather.com">sales@twinleather.com</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Valentine Herpetological Supplies</strong> <br />\r\n      Herpetological Supplies<br />\r\n      800-438-7883<br />\r\n      FAX (630) 243-8882</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.valentineinc.com/">www.valentineinc.com</a></p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Welburn Gourd Farm</strong> <br />\r\n      Gourds <br />\r\n      (760)728-4271</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.welburngourdfarm.com">www.welburngourdfarm.com</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>World Champion Horse Equipment</strong><br />\r\n      Equine Supply<br />\r\n      (931) 684-0496</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.ehorseequipment.com">www.ehorseequipment.com</a> </p></li>\r\n      \r\n  <li><p><strong>Zoomed Laboratories</strong><br />\r\n      Herpetological Supplies<br />\r\n      (805) 542-9988  FAX (805) 542-9295</p>\r\n      \r\n      <p><a href="http://www.zoomed.com/">www.zoomed.com</a><br />\r\n      email: <a href="mailto:zoomed@zoomed.com">zoomed@zoomed.com</a></p></li>\r\n<ul>', 'Enrichment Suppliers', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '324-revision-v1', '', '', '2009-05-31 14:24:22', '2009-05-31 19:24:22', '', 324, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/324-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1867, 2, '2011-02-17 15:28:59', '2011-02-17 20:28:59', '<ul style="text-align: left;">\r\n	<li><strong>Absolute Primate Enrichment Systems</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates\r\n(817) 228-2281\r\n<a href="http://www.absoluteprimate.com ">www.absoluteprimate.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>American Excelsior Company</strong>\r\nWoodwool Substrates\r\n(800) 326-3626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.amerexcel.com/">www.amerexcel.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Animal Management Resources</strong>\r\n(910) 246-6263\r\n<a href="http://www.mytrainingstore.com">www.mytrainingstore.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:meg@mytrainingstore.com">meg@mytrainingstore.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Aussie Dog Products</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for dogs, horses and zoo animals\r\n+61 (0)3 9752-3336  FAX +61 (0)3 9758-3020\r\n<a href="http://www.aussiedog.com.au">www.aussiedog.com.au</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>BCI Burke Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nPlayground Structures\r\n800-266-1250 FAX  (414) 921-9566\r\n\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:info@bciburke.com">info@bciburke.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.bciburke.com/">www.bciburke.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Bio-Serve</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates, dogs, pigs, rodents\r\n(908) 996-2155 FAX  (908) 996-4123\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.bio-serv.com">www.bio-serv.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Birds Just Wanna Have Fun</strong>\r\nBird toys\r\n1-800-246-1018 or (512) 401-0536\r\n\r\nE-mail: <a href="mailto:info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com">info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com/">www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Boomer Ball®, Inc.</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(888) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6125\r\nFAX (800) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6185</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Busy Beaks</strong>\r\nBird toys\r\n<a href="http://www.busybeaks.com">www.busybeaks.com</a>\r\n458 Lucher Rd.\r\nWillis, TX 77378\r\n(936)344-8400 (phone)\r\n(936)344-8406 (fax)\r\n<a href="mailto:BusyBeaksToys@aol.com">BusyBeaksToys@aol.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Caning Company</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(800) 544-3373\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.caning.com/">www.caning.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Choppers Toys/Design-Rite Products</strong>\r\n101 North 55th    Street Unit #4\r\nPhoenix AZ 85034\r\n(480) 945-8406\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.chopperstoys.com/">www.chopperstoys.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Desert Plastics</strong>\r\n2401A Phoenix, NE\r\nAlbuquerque, NM 87107\r\nPhone: (505) 884-3889\r\nFax: (505) 884-3932\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.desertplastics-abq.com/">www.desertplastics-abq.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Doctors Fosters Smith</strong>\r\nPet Supply\r\n(800) 826-7206\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.drsfostersmith.com/">www.drsfostersmith.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Duracast Products, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment products\r\n(800) 683-4116  FAX (863) 638-2443\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.duracast.com">http://www.duracast.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Edible Landscaping</strong>\r\nEdible Plants\r\n800-524-4156 FAX  (434) 361-1916<a href="http://www.eat-it.com/">www.eat-it.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>E Street Plastics</strong>\r\nAcrylic mirrors, plexi and lexan\r\n(972) 207-0936\r\n<a href="http://www.estreetplastics.com ">www.estreetplastics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@estreetplastics.com">sales@estreetplastics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ethical, Inc.</strong>\r\nVinyl chew toys, squish balls\r\n(973) 484-1000\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ethicalpet.com/">www.ethicalpet.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Exotic Creations</strong>\r\nBird Toys\r\n(612) 785-0376\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.exoticreations.com">www.exoticreations.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fauna-Tek</strong>\r\nNew England Exotics, Inc.\r\n71 Michaels Rd.\r\nWells, ME 04090\r\n207-646-7173\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.fauna-tek.net">www.fauna-tek.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fluker Farms</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(800) 735-8537\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.flukerfarms.com">www.flukerfarms.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Injoy Coursing Equipment</strong>\r\nCoursing Lures\r\n(802) 425-3691 FAX  (802) 425-4468\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.injoy-1.com">www.injoy-1.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>International Cordage</strong>\r\nRope Structures\r\n(602) 252-3155\r\nFAX  (602) 252-3053\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.internationalcordage.com/">www.internationalcordage.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jeffer’s Pet Supply</strong>\r\nPet &amp; livestock supplies\r\n(800) 533-3377\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.jefferspet.com">www.jefferspet.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.jefferslivestock.com">www.jefferslivestock.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jolly Pets</strong>\r\nHorseman’s Pride\r\nHeavy duty plastic toys\r\n10008 State Rt. 43\r\nStreetsboro, OH. 44241\r\n<a href="http://www.jollypets.com/HorsemenHome.html">http://www.jollypets.com/HorsemenHome.html</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:cservice@jollypets.com">cservice@jollypets.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Kong Company</strong>\r\nKong toys\r\n16191 Table Mountain Parkway\r\nGolden, CO 80403\r\n(303)  216-2626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.kongcompany.com/">http://www.kongcompany.com/</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Kracor, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment feeders &amp; toys\r\n(800) 255-6335\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.kracor.com">www.kracor.com</a>\r\nemail:  <a href="mailto:custormerservice@kracor.com">custormerservice@kracor.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Larson Company</strong>\r\n"The Stump" enrichment  device\r\n(520) 294-3900 FAX  (520) 741-7930\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.larson-usa.com">www.larson-usa.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Leather Elves</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for birds &amp; zoo animals\r\n(781) 331-8557\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.theleatherelves.com">www.theleatherelves.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Lomir Primate Enrichment Technologies</strong>\r\nPrimate enrichment products\r\n(877) 425-3604\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.lomir.com/pet">www.lomir.com/pet</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Omaha Vaccine Company</strong>\r\nPet Supplies\r\n800-367-4444\r\nFAX 800-242-9447\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.omahavaccine.com/">www.omahavaccine.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Otto Environmental</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(414) 358-1001\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ottoenvironmental.com/">www.ottoenvironmental.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Pacific Fibre and Rope Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo nets and rope ladders\r\nFAX (310) 835-6781\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.pacificfibre.com/">www.pacificfibre.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:pacfib@worldnet.att.net">pacfib@worldnet.att.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Primate Products</strong>\r\n<a href="http://www.primateproducts.com ">www.primateproducts.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>PetsMart</strong>\r\n19601 N. 27th    Ave.\r\nPhoenix,  AZ. 85027\r\n(800) 738-1385\r\nPet supplies<a href="http://www.petsmart.com/">www.petsmart.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Rotonics</strong>\r\nCustom rotational plastics molding &amp; buoys\r\n(800) 351-1363\r\n<a href="http://www.rotonics.com ">www.rotonics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:buoys@rotonics.com">buoys@rotonics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Safari Thatch, Inc.</strong>\r\nBamboo Products\r\n(954) 564-0059\r\nFAX (954) 564-7431\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.safarithatch.com/">www.safarithatch.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sanctuary Supplies</strong>\r\n4300 Pletzer    Blvd.\r\nRootstown,   OH. 44272\r\n(877) 886-1992\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sanctuarysupplies.com">www.sanctuarysupplies.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Seeds of Change</strong>\r\nOrganic seeds for edible plants\r\nFAX (505) 438-7052\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.seedsofchange.com/">www.seedsofchange.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SINCO Group, Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo Nets\r\nFAX (860) 632-1509\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sinco.com/">www.sinco.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@sincosala.com">sales@sincosala.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SitStay</strong>\r\nTraining Clickers\r\nFAX (402) 467-5055\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sitstay.com/">www.sitstay.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>StarBird</strong>\r\nZoo Enrichment\r\n(310) 489-8868\r\nFAX (310) 828-5129\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.estarbird.com/">www.estarbird.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sweeney Enterprises, Inc.</strong>\r\nAutomatic Feeders\r\n(800) 443-4244\r\nFAX (800) 337-5017\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sweeneyfeeders.com">www.sweeneyfeeders.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>That Pet Place</strong>\r\n<a href="http://www.thatpetplace.com ">www.thatpetplace.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Twin Leather Company</strong>\r\nBird toy parts and supplies\r\n(508) 583-3485\r\nFAX (508) 586-4501\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.twinleather.com/">www.twinleather.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@twinleather.com">sales@twinleather.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Valentine Inc.\r\n</strong>Zoological supplies\r\nFAX  (239) 645 4682\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.valentineinc.com/">www.valentineinc.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Welburn Gourd Farm</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(760)728-4271\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.welburngourdfarm.com">www.welburngourdfarm.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>World Champion Horse Equipment</strong>\r\nEquine Supply\r\n(931) 684-0496\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ehorseequipment.com">www.ehorseequipment.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Zoomed Laboratories</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(805) 542-9988  FAX (805) 542-9295\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.zoomed.com/">www.zoomed.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:zoomed@zoomed.com">zoomed@zoomed.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Enrichment Suppliers', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '324-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-17 15:28:59', '2011-02-17 20:28:59', '', 324, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/324-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1866, 2, '2011-02-17 15:27:14', '2011-02-17 20:27:14', '<ul style="text-align: left;">\r\n	<li><strong>Absolute Primate Enrichment Systems</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates\r\n(817) 228-2281\r\n<a href="http://www.absoluteprimate.com ">www.absoluteprimate.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>American Excelsior Company</strong>\r\nWoodwool Substrates\r\n(800) 326-3626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.amerexcel.com/">www.amerexcel.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Animal Management Resources</strong>\r\n(910) 246-6263\r\n<a href="http://www.mytrainingstore.com">www.mytrainingstore.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:meg@mytrainingstore.com">meg@mytrainingstore.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><strong>Aussie Dog Products</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for dogs, horses and zoo animals\r\n+61 (0)3 9752-3336  FAX +61 (0)3 9758-3020\r\n<a href="http://www.aussiedog.com.au">www.aussiedog.com.au</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>BCI Burke Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nPlayground Structures\r\n800-266-1250 FAX  (414) 921-9566\r\n\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:info@bciburke.com">info@bciburke.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.bciburke.com/">www.bciburke.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Bio-Serve</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for primates, dogs, pigs, rodents\r\n(908) 996-2155 FAX  (908) 996-4123\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.bio-serv.com">www.bio-serv.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Birds Just Wanna Have Fun</strong>\r\nBird toys\r\n1-800-246-1018 or (512) 401-0536\r\n\r\nE-mail: <a href="mailto:info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com">info@birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com/">www.birdsjustwannahavefun.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Boomer Ball®, Inc.</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(888) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6125\r\nFAX (800) 858-9529  or (847) 546-6185</li>\r\n	<li><strong>Busy Beaks</strong> (toys for birds)\r\n<a href="http://www.busybeaks.com">www.busybeaks.com</a>\r\n458 Lucher Rd.\r\nWillis, TX 77378\r\n(936)344-8400 (phone)\r\n(936)344-8406 (fax)\r\n<a href="mailto:BusyBeaksToys@aol.com">BusyBeaksToys@aol.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Caning Company</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(800) 544-3373\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.caning.com/">www.caning.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Choppers Toys/Design-Rite Products</strong>\r\n101 North 55th    Street Unit #4\r\nPhoenix AZ 85034\r\n(480) 945-8406\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.chopperstoys.com/">www.chopperstoys.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Desert Plastics</strong>\r\n2401A Phoenix, NE\r\nAlbuquerque, NM 87107\r\nPhone: (505) 884-3889\r\nFax: (505) 884-3932\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.desertplastics-abq.com/">www.desertplastics-abq.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Doctors Fosters Smith</strong>\r\nPet Supply\r\n(800) 826-7206\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.drsfostersmith.com/">www.drsfostersmith.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Duracast Products, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment products\r\n(800) 683-4116  FAX (863) 638-2443\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.duracast.com">http://www.duracast.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Edible Landscaping</strong>\r\nEdible Plants\r\n800-524-4156 FAX  (434) 361-1916<a href="http://www.eat-it.com/">www.eat-it.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>E Street Plastics</strong>\r\nAcrylic mirrors, plexi and lexan\r\n(972) 207-0936\r\n<a href="http://www.estreetplastics.com ">www.estreetplastics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@estreetplastics.com">sales@estreetplastics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Ethical, Inc.</strong>\r\nVinyl chew toys, squish balls\r\n(973) 484-1000\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ethicalpet.com/">www.ethicalpet.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Exotic Creations</strong>\r\nBird Toys\r\n(612) 785-0376\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.exoticreations.com">www.exoticreations.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fauna-Tek</strong>\r\nNew England Exotics, Inc.\r\n71 Michaels Rd.\r\nWells, ME 04090\r\n207-646-7173\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.fauna-tek.net">www.fauna-tek.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Fluker Farms</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(800) 735-8537\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.flukerfarms.com">www.flukerfarms.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Injoy Coursing Equipment</strong>\r\nCoursing Lures\r\n(802) 425-3691 FAX  (802) 425-4468\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.injoy-1.com">www.injoy-1.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>International Cordage</strong>\r\nRope Structures\r\n(602) 252-3155\r\nFAX  (602) 252-3053\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.internationalcordage.com/">www.internationalcordage.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jeffer’s Pet Supply</strong>\r\nPet &amp; livestock supplies\r\n(800) 533-3377\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.jefferspet.com">www.jefferspet.com</a>\r\n<a href="http://www.jefferslivestock.com">www.jefferslivestock.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Jolly Pets</strong>\r\nHorseman’s Pride\r\nHeavy duty plastic toys\r\n10008 State Rt. 43\r\nStreetsboro, OH. 44241\r\n<a href="http://www.jollypets.com/HorsemenHome.html">http://www.jollypets.com/HorsemenHome.html</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:cservice@jollypets.com">cservice@jollypets.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Kong Company</strong>\r\nKong toys\r\n16191 Table Mountain Parkway\r\nGolden, CO 80403\r\n(303)  216-2626\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.kongcompany.com/">http://www.kongcompany.com/</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Kracor, Inc.</strong>\r\nPlastic enrichment feeders &amp; toys\r\n(800) 255-6335\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.kracor.com">www.kracor.com</a>\r\nemail:  <a href="mailto:custormerservice@kracor.com">custormerservice@kracor.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>The Larson Company</strong>\r\n"The Stump" enrichment  device\r\n(520) 294-3900 FAX  (520) 741-7930\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.larson-usa.com">www.larson-usa.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Leather Elves</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for birds &amp; zoo animals\r\n(781) 331-8557\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.theleatherelves.com">www.theleatherelves.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Lomir Primate Enrichment Technologies</strong>\r\nPrimate enrichment products\r\n(877) 425-3604\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.lomir.com/pet">www.lomir.com/pet</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Omaha Vaccine Company</strong>\r\nPet Supplies\r\n800-367-4444\r\nFAX 800-242-9447\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.omahavaccine.com/">www.omahavaccine.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Otto Environmental</strong>\r\nEnrichment devices for zoo animals\r\n(414) 358-1001\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ottoenvironmental.com/">www.ottoenvironmental.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Pacific Fibre and Rope Co., Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo nets and rope ladders\r\nFAX (310) 835-6781\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.pacificfibre.com/">www.pacificfibre.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:pacfib@worldnet.att.net">pacfib@worldnet.att.net</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Primate Products</strong>\r\n<a href="http://www.primateproducts.com ">www.primateproducts.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>PetsMart</strong>\r\n19601 N. 27th    Ave.\r\nPhoenix,  AZ. 85027\r\n(800) 738-1385\r\nPet supplies<a href="http://www.petsmart.com/">www.petsmart.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Rotonics</strong>\r\nCustom rotational plastics molding &amp; buoys\r\n(800) 351-1363\r\n<a href="http://www.rotonics.com ">www.rotonics.com </a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:buoys@rotonics.com">buoys@rotonics.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Safari Thatch, Inc.</strong>\r\nBamboo Products\r\n(954) 564-0059\r\nFAX (954) 564-7431\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.safarithatch.com/">www.safarithatch.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sanctuary Supplies</strong>\r\n4300 Pletzer    Blvd.\r\nRootstown,   OH. 44272\r\n(877) 886-1992\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sanctuarysupplies.com">www.sanctuarysupplies.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Seeds of Change</strong>\r\nOrganic seeds for edible plants\r\nFAX (505) 438-7052\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.seedsofchange.com/">www.seedsofchange.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SINCO Group, Inc.</strong>\r\nCargo Nets\r\nFAX (860) 632-1509\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sinco.com/">www.sinco.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@sincosala.com">sales@sincosala.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>SitStay</strong>\r\nTraining Clickers\r\nFAX (402) 467-5055\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sitstay.com/">www.sitstay.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>StarBird</strong>\r\nZoo Enrichment\r\n(310) 489-8868\r\nFAX (310) 828-5129\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.estarbird.com/">www.estarbird.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Sweeney Enterprises, Inc.</strong>\r\nAutomatic Feeders\r\n(800) 443-4244\r\nFAX (800) 337-5017\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.sweeneyfeeders.com">www.sweeneyfeeders.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>That Pet Place</strong>\r\n<a href="http://www.thatpetplace.com ">www.thatpetplace.com </a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Twin Leather Company</strong>\r\nBird toy parts and supplies\r\n(508) 583-3485\r\nFAX (508) 586-4501\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.twinleather.com/">www.twinleather.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:sales@twinleather.com">sales@twinleather.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Valentine Inc.\r\n</strong>Zoological supplies\r\nFAX  (239) 645 4682\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.valentineinc.com/">www.valentineinc.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Welburn Gourd Farm</strong>\r\nGourds\r\n(760)728-4271\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.welburngourdfarm.com">www.welburngourdfarm.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>World Champion Horse Equipment</strong>\r\nEquine Supply\r\n(931) 684-0496\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.ehorseequipment.com">www.ehorseequipment.com</a></li>\r\n	<li><strong>Zoomed Laboratories</strong>\r\nHerpetological Supplies\r\n(805) 542-9988  FAX (805) 542-9295\r\n\r\n<a href="http://www.zoomed.com/">www.zoomed.com</a>\r\nemail: <a href="mailto:zoomed@zoomed.com">zoomed@zoomed.com</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Enrichment Suppliers', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '324-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-17 15:27:14', '2011-02-17 20:27:14', '', 324, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/324-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1868, 2, '2010-04-07 08:08:47', '2010-04-07 13:08:47', '<h5>For those wishing to mail in their membership application you can download the application <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/aazk_member_registration.pdf">here</a>. For those wishing to sign up on the website please utilize the buttons below.</h5>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<h3>US Members</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="US Professional Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="us-professional" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="45.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$45 - Professional Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Full-time Keepers</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/professional-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="US Affiliate Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="us-affiliate" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="40.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$40 - Affiliate Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Other staff &amp; 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volunteers, or those interested in the profession but not associated with a zoo or aquarium</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/affiliate-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Canadian Student Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="cad-student" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="30.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="CAD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="CA" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$30 - Student Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Students: must supply a copy of student ID at time of application</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/student-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Canadian Individuals Contributing" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="cad-individual" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="70.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="CAD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="CA" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$70 - Individuals Contributing</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>Commercial Members</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Canadian Individuals Contributing" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="cad-individual" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="150.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$150 - Commercial Membership</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/commercial-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<strong>The following membership types require verification of your organization\'s information and/or approval by the AAZK Board.</strong>\r\n<h3>Institutional Members</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/aazk_member_registration_2010.pdf">Download Application</a></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$150 - Institutional Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">requires AAZK Board approval</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/institutional-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>Library Only</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/aazk_member_registration_2010.pdf">Download Application</a></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$45 - Institutional</div>\r\n<div class="details">Available only to public &amp; university libraries</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>International Members</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/aazk_member_registration_2010.pdf">Download Application</a></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$60 - International Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">All members outside U.S. &amp; Canada regardless of category</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nPrint and mail applications to:\r\n\r\n<strong>AAZK Administrative Offices\r\n3601 S.W. 29th, Suite 133\r\nTopeka, KS 66614</strong>\r\n\r\nMake checks/money orders payable to <strong>AAZK, Inc</strong>\r\nMust be in U.S. FUNDS ONLY.\r\n\r\nMembership includes a subscription to Animal Keepers\' Forum. 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1869, 2, '2011-02-18 14:56:30', '2011-02-18 19:56:30', '<h5>You can join as a new member or renew your current membership below. For those wishing to mail in their membership application you can download the application <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/aazk_member_registration.pdf">here</a>. For those wishing to sign up or renew on the website please utilize the buttons below.</h5>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<h3>US Members</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="US Professional Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="us-professional" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="45.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$45 - Professional Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Full-time Keepers</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/professional-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="US Affiliate Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="us-affiliate" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="40.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$40 - Affiliate Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Other staff &amp; volunteers, or those interested in the profession but not associated with a zoo or aquarium</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/affiliate-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="US Student Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="us-student" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="30.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$30 - Student Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Students: must supply a copy of student ID at time of application</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/student-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="US Individuals Contributing" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="us-individual" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="70.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="USD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="US" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$70 - Individuals Contributing</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<h3>Canadian Members</h3>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Canadian Professional Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="cad-professional" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="45.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="CAD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="CA" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$45 - Professional Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Full-time Keepers</div>\r\n<div class="benefits">(<a class="thickbox" href="/join/professional-membership-benefits/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Membership Benefits</a>)</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="membership">\r\n<div class="button"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input alt="Make payments with PayPal - it\'s fast, free and secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" type="image" /> <input name="add" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_cart" /> <input name="business" type="hidden" value="aazkoffice@zk.kscoxmail.com" /> <input name="item_name" type="hidden" value="Canadian Affiliate Membership" /> <input name="item_number" type="hidden" value="cad-affiliate" /> <input name="amount" type="hidden" value="40.00" /> <input name="no_note" type="hidden" value="1" /> <input name="currency_code" type="hidden" value="CAD" /> <input name="lc" type="hidden" value="CA" /> </form></div>\r\n<div class="description">\r\n<div class="type">$40 - Affiliate Membership</div>\r\n<div class="details">Other staff &amp; 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1870, 1, '2011-02-19 07:13:33', '2011-02-19 12:13:33', '<h5>You can join as a new member or renew your current membership below. For those wishing to mail in their membership application you can download the application <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/aazk_member_registration.pdf">here</a>. 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1933, 2, '2011-02-23 09:23:27', '2011-02-23 14:23:27', '<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 19-24 , 2011 - Save the Date!  <em>The 2011 AZA Ungulate TAG Midyear Meetings</em></strong> are being planned in conjunction with the AZA Midyear workshop in Chattanooga, TN. This year the meetings will include midyear, working meetings for the following AZA TAGS:  Antelope and Giraffe, Equid, Cervid, Caprid, Wild Pig and Peccary and the Cattle TAG, as well as the Annual Ungulate TAG Research Symposium. Conference Hotel will be the Chattanooga Marriott with rates of $135/night.   Contact Martha Fischer at <a href="mailto:fischer@stlzoo.org">fischer@stlzoo.org</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 17-22, 2011 - <em>11th Annual Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA)</em></strong>. In Denver, CO. The conference will kick off with our keynote speaker, Dr. Jill Mellen from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and will culminate with an Earth Day to remember at the Denver Zoo.  See (<a href="http://www.theabma.org/">http://www.theabma.org/</a>) for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 15th-18th, 2011 - <em>2011 Rhino Keeper Workshop</em></strong>. To be held at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Texas. For further info contact:<a href="mailto:adam.felts@columbuszoo.org"> adam.felts@columbuszoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>June 13-16, 2011 - <em>7th International Zoo &amp; Aquarium Marketing Conference</em></strong><em> </em>- Hosted by the WAZA and the Granby Zoo in Granby, Quebec, Canada. Theme for the conference is “Strategic Marketing in Action”.  The program will address the following topics: Strategic Marketing, Marketing the Zoo &amp; Aquarium Community, Marketing, Education and Conservation, Turn Bad News into Good News, and Social Marketing in Action.  See <a href="http://www.zoodegranby.com/waza ">www.zoodegranby.com/waza </a>for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>July 20-23, 2011 - <em>Biology of Rattlesnakes Symposium</em></strong> - To be held at the University Park Marriot in Tucson, AZ.  Hosted by the Chiricahua Desert Museum and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. People interested in presenting papers should contact Lori King Palmer at <a href="mailto:loriguanid@aol.com">loriguanid@aol.com</a>.  Those interested in presenting posters contact Matt Goode at <a href="mailto:mgoode@ag.arizona.edu">mgoode@ag.arizona.edu</a>.  For registration information, current list of speakers and other details, please go to<a href="http://www.biologyoftherattlesnakes.com"> www.biologyoftherattlesnakes.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>July 25-30, 2011  - <em>The First-ever Joint Meeting of the International Ethological Conference (IEC) and the Animal Behavior Society (ABS)</em></strong>. To be held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. More information can be found at the conference website: <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~behav11/index.shtml">http://www.indiana.edu/~behav11/index.shtml</a>. The program will be exciting and integrative scientific that draws on the strengths of both the IEC and the ABS.\r\n\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>October 1-5, 2011  -<em> 30th Annual Conference of the Association of Zoological Horticulture (AZH)</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Sedgwick County Zoo, Wichita, KS.  Theme: "Bringing the World to the Plains" at Wichita Hyatt Regency Hotel. Seminars and workshops covering a wide range of topics involving Horticulture, Integrated Pest Management, Conservation and Exhibit Design will be presented. Participants within the Horticulture, Arboriculture and Grounds Maintenance fields are encouraged to attend. For more information call 316-266-8313, 316-266-8314 or visit <a href="http://AZH.org">AZH.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 6 – 9, 2011 - <em>Advancing Bear Care 2011</em></strong> – Banff, Canada\r\nBear biologists and naturalists will lead hikes into bear habitat and interpret for delegates how bears use the components of the ecosystem to express their daily and seasonal routines. We will bring this information back into workshops and apply this knowledge towards improving captive bear husbandry. Also, international bear biologists will assist us in interpreting Asian, European, and South American bear habitats.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 6-9, 2011 - <em>32nd Annual Elephant Managers Association Conference</em></strong> - Hosted by the Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester, NY.  The pre-conference trip will be hosted by Lion Country Safari in Cambridge, Ontario on Wednesday, October 5th (Passport needed to participate in this trip).\r\n<h2><strong>2012</strong></h2>\r\n<strong>August 8-14, 2012 - <em>The World Congress of Herpetology</em></strong> - To be held in Vancouver, Canada. For more information see <a href="http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/">http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 9-3, 2012 - <em>4th International Congress on Zookeeping</em> </strong>– To be held in Singapore.  Theme “Many Voices One Calling” Sponsored by Wildlife Reserves Singapore , Singapore Tourism Bureau. For information on sponsorship or exhibition opportunities email <a href="mailto:eo@aszk.org.au">eo@aszk.org.au</a>.  Check the ICZ website <a href="http://www.iczoo.org/">http://www.iczoo.org/</a> for latest news.\r\n<h2><em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em></h2>\r\n2011 - San Diego, CA - August 24-28; <a href="http://sdaazk.com">http://sdaazk.com</a>\r\n\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\n2013 - Asheboro, NC  - Dates TBA\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<h2><em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em></h2>\r\nSeptember 12-17, 2011  - AZA 2011 Annual Conference - Hosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta , GA\r\n\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events March 2011', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-23 09:23:27', '2011-02-23 14:23:27', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-32/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1871, 2, '2011-02-04 10:17:41', '2011-02-04 15:17:41', '<strong>February 16-19, 2011  - <em>19th Annual Conference International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators</em></strong> ~ “Pittsburgh 2011: Innovation and Inspiration” Hosted by National Aviary in Pittsburgh, PA USA. Papers, posters, site visits, vendors and workshops. Topics will include avian behavior, training, husbandry, conservation, education, enrichment and show presentation/production.  For more information about the conference visit <a href="http://www.IAATE.org">www.IAATE.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><em></em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 2-4, 2011 - <em>Association of Professional Wildlife Educators</em></strong>. To be held at the Frank Buck Zoo Gainesville, Texas. Watch <a href="http://www.apwe.org/">http://www.apwe.org/</a> for details as they become available.\r\n\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>March 8-11, 2011 -<em> Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Woodland Park Zoo, at Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA.  Icebreaker planned for evening of March 7th. Registration is now open at <a href="http://www.zoo.org/zacc">www.zoo.org/zacc</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>March 19-24 , 2011 - Save the Date!  <em>The 2011 AZA Ungulate TAG Midyear Meetings</em></strong> are being planned in conjunction with the AZA Midyear workshop in Chattanooga, TN. The exact dates of the Ungulate TAG meetings will be determined soon.  This year the meetings will include midyear/working meetings for the following AZA TAGS:  Antelope and Giraffe, Equid, Cervid, Caprid, Wild Pig and Peccary and the Cattle TAG, as well as the Annual Ungulate TAG Research Symposium.  AZA has announced that the registration rates will remain the same as the rates in 2009 and the Conference Hotel will be the Chattanooga Marriott with conference rates of $135/night.   Contact Martha Fischer at <a href="mailto:fischer@stlzoo.org">fischer@stlzoo.org</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 17-22, 2011 - <em>11th Annual Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA)</em></strong>. In Denver, CO. The conference will kick off with our keynote speaker, Dr. Jill Mellen from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and will culminate with an Earth Day to remember at the Denver Zoo.  See (<a href="http://www.theabma.org/">http://www.theabma.org/</a>) for further information.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 15th-18th, 2011 - <em>2011 Rhino Keeper Workshop</em></strong>. To be held at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, Glen Rose, Texas. For further info contact:<a href="mailto:adam.felts@columbuszoo.org"> adam.felts@columbuszoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>July 25-30, 2011  - <em>The First-ever Joint Meeting of the International Ethological Conference (IEC) and the Animal Behavior Society (ABS)</em></strong>. To be held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. More information can be found at the conference website: <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~behav11/index.shtml">http://www.indiana.edu/~behav11/index.shtml</a>. The program will be exciting and integrative scientific that draws on the strengths of both the IEC and the ABS.\r\n\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>October 1-5, 2011  -<em> 30th Annual Conference of the Association of Zoological Horticulture (AZH)</em></strong>.  Hosted by the Sedgwick County Zoo, Wichita, KS.  Theme: "Bringing the World to the Plains" at Wichita Hyatt Regency Hotel. Seminars and workshops covering a wide range of topics involving Horticulture, Integrated Pest Management, Conservation and Exhibit Design will be presented. Participants within the Horticulture, Arboriculture and Grounds Maintenance fields are encouraged to attend. For more information call 316-266-8313, 316-266-8314 or visit <a href="http://AZH.org">AZH.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 6 – 9, 2011 - <em>Advancing Bear Care 2011</em></strong> – Banff, Canada\r\nBear biologists and naturalists will lead hikes into bear habitat and interpret for delegates how bears use the components of the ecosystem to express their daily and seasonal routines. We will bring this information back into workshops and apply this knowledge towards improving captive bear husbandry. Also, international bear biologists will assist us in interpreting Asian, European, and South American bear habitats.\r\n\r\n<strong>August 8-14, 2012 - <em>The World Congress of Herpetology</em></strong> - To be held in Vancouver, Canada. For more information see <a href="http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/">http://www.worldcongressofherpetology.org/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 9-3, 2012 - <em>4th International Congress on Zookeeping</em> </strong>– To be held in Singapore.  Theme “Many Voices One Calling” Sponsored by Wildlife Reserves Singapore , Singapore Tourism Bureau. For information on sponsorship or exhibition opportunities email <a href="mailto:eo@aszk.org.au">eo@aszk.org.au</a>.  Check the ICZ website <a href="http://www.iczoo.org/">http://www.iczoo.org/</a> for latest news.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AAZK National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\n2011 - San Diego, CA - August 24-28; <a href="http://sdaazk.com">http://sdaazk.com</a>\r\n\r\n2012 - Syracuse, NY - September 23-27\r\n\r\n2013 - Asheboro, NC  - Dates TBA\r\n\r\nFor information on upcoming AAZK conferences, watch the AAZK website at <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Upcoming AZA National Conferences</strong></em>\r\n\r\nSeptember 12-17, 2011  - AZA 2011 Annual Conference - Hosted by Zoo Atlanta, Atlanta , GA\r\n\r\nSeptember 8-13, 2012 - AZA 2012 Annual Conference - Hosted by Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ\r\n\r\nSeptember 7-12, 2013 - AZA 2013 Annual Conference - Hosted by the Kansas City Zoo, Kansas City , MO\r\n\r\nFor info on AZA Conferences, see <a href="http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html">http://aza.org/ConfWork/AC_Intro/index.html</a>.', 'Coming Events February 2011', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '435-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 10:17:41', '2011-02-04 15:17:41', '', 435, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/435-revision-31/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1934, 2, '2014-01-03 12:06:51', '2014-01-03 17:06:51', 'As the need to protect and preserve our wildlife and vanishing habitats has increased, our role as educators and wildlife ambassadors has become essential. During the third week of July each year, celebrate National Zoo Keeper Week; both you and your animals deserve the recognition.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href="https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2014-Zoo-keeper-WEEK-V.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4944" alt="Zoo keeper WEEK.Logo 2011 V" src="https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2014-Zoo-keeper-WEEK-V-300x179.jpg" width="300" height="179" /></a>\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>Ideas</h4>\nNeed ideas for celebrating this week or graphics? Download the following:\n<i class="left icon-download"></i> <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/National Zoo Keeper Week Ideas.pdf" target="_blank">NZKW ideas (PDF)</a>\n<i class="left icon-download"></i> <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/NZKW Press release10.doc">NZKW sample press release</a> (Word format)\n<i class="left icon-download"></i> <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/nzkwproclamation.doc">NZKW proclamation</a> (Word format)\n<h6>NZKW Graphics</h6>\n<a href="https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK.Logo-2014-V-copy.jpg">https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK.Logo-2014-V-copy.jpg</a>\n\n<a href="https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK-copy.Logo-2014-V.tiff">https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK-copy.Logo-2014-V.tiff</a>\n\n<a href="https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK.Logo-H-2014.tif">https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK.Logo-H-2014.tif</a>\n\n<a href="https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK.Logo_.Horz-2014.tif">https://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/Zoo-keeper-WEEK.Logo_.Horz-2014.tif</a>\n\nPlease be patient when downloading, as for some of these files are large. <em>For JPGs right click on the graphic to save once the link has opened in a new window.</em>\n\n<i class="left icon-download"></i> <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2013_logo_horz.jpg" target="_blank">\n</a>\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>National Zoo Keeper Week Proclamation</h4>\n<strong>WHEREAS,</strong> worldwide animal populations are declining at an alarming rate with many facing extinction; and\n\nWHEREAS, zoological institutions have become the final hope for many endangered species recovery programs through conservation research, release programs, and by being a portal through which the general public can view and appreciate disappearing wildlife; and\n\nWHEREAS, zoological institutions are also population managers of keystone and cornerstone species, emphasizing the restoration of not just the endangered species, but a restoration of the delicate balance of nature; and\n\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers are the frontline soldiers for conservation, participating in the battle for species survival and preservation of the natural homelands of the animals they care for through public awareness, education, and exhibition; and\n\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become animal caretakers devoting their lives to caring for these animals; and\n\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become the spokespersons for vanishing wildlife, carrying the conservation message of habitat loss, endangered species, and preservation of nature’s threatened wildlands to the public; and\n\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become animal specialists, as educators, choreographers of animal behaviors through enrichment, behavior managers through operant conditioning, and reproductive specialists through improved observations and husbandry; and\n\nWHEREAS, to help increase public awareness about the need to preserve our precious habitats and the animals which inhabit them and to recognize the roles that zookeepers play in animal conservation and education, The American Association of Zoo Keepers invites all AAZK chapters to participate in National Zoo Keeper Week.\n<div id="inner-links"></div>', 'National Zoo Keeper Week', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1193-autosave-v1', '', '', '2014-01-03 12:06:51', '2014-01-03 17:06:51', '', 1193, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1193-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1872, 2, '2011-02-23 09:25:42', '2011-02-23 14:25:42', 'About the Cover/Information for Contributors\r\nScoops &amp; Scuttlebutt\r\nFrom the President\r\nComing Events\r\nAAZK Announces New Members\r\nCall for Papers for Ungulate Dedicated Issue\r\n2011 Conference Updates/Information\r\nAKF Dedicated Five-Issue Combo Pack on Sale\r\nTraining Tales (3 Lions, 21 Days, 44 Minutes)\r\nAAZK Research Grant Report - Mad Fishes\r\nEnrichment Options (<em>Enrichment: The Noun vs. the Verb</em>)\r\nBuilding a Red River Hog Restraint from Scraps\r\nTraining Two Separate Behaviors to Draw Blood from 2.0 Spotted Hyena Utilizing Operant Conditioning with Positive Reinforcement\r\nNew AAZK Logo Fleece Vests Available\r\nChapter News\r\nConservation Station (<em>One Week Inspires Lifetimes of Change: Polar Bears International Keeper Leadership Camp 2010</em>)\r\nBook Review (<em>Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida’s Most Famous Endangered Species</em>)\r\nConservation/Legislative Update', 'March 2011', 0, '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'march-2011', '', '', '2013-10-15 17:49:20', '2013-10-15 22:49:20', '', 0, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/?p=1872', 0, 'post', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2382, 2, '2012-02-11 16:43:49', '2012-02-11 21:43:49', '<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Application Deadline is June 1, 2012</span></h2>\r\nThe American Association of Zoo Keepers, Inc.  (AAZK) is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the Bowling for Rhinos Conservation Resource Fund. This competitive grant is designed to fund projects focused on rhino conservation and research. The total amount of funds available in 2012 is $2,300.29. This competitive grant is designed to fund projects focused on rhino conservation and research. Successful proposals will reflect AAZK values and meet award criteria in one of four categories:\r\n<strong>·    Category I - In-situ Rhino Conservation and Research-</strong>\r\nShort-term (less than one year), specific, field research projects on African or Asian rhino species conducted by an individual or organized group of individuals working under the auspices of a zoological facility, educational entity or AAZK Conservation Partner.\r\n<strong>·    Category 2 - In–situ Community, Educational or Medical Programs (Africa or Asia)-</strong>\r\nCommunity education, school support or medical programs developed or administrated by an individual working under the auspices of a zoological facility, educational entity or AAZK Conservation Partner restricted to the continents of Africa or Asia. Preference may be given to local programs established and/or administrated by LWC (Lewa Wildlife Conservancy), IRF (International Rhino Foundation) or ACK (Action for Cheetahs in Kenya) endorsed partners.\r\n<strong>·    Category 3 - In-situ Species Conservation-</strong>\r\nShort-term (less than one year), specific, field research projects on any species that shares the exact same ecosystem as: Asian, Java, Sumatran, and African Black or White rhino.\r\n<strong>·    Category 4 - Ex-situ Rhino Conservation and Research –</strong>\r\nShort-term (less than one year), specific, zoological research projects on African or Asian rhino species conducted by an individual or organized group of individuals working under the auspices of a zoological facility, educational entity or AAZK Conservation Partner. Researcher(s) must be able to demonstrate evidence of partnership with a rhino conservation entity operating in Asia or Africa combined with a tangible benefit to an in-situ conservation project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Eligibility</strong>\r\nAffiliation or partnership with AAZK is not required, but preference may be given to AAZK Members or Conservation Partners.\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>Applications are due no later the June 1st.</strong></em></span> Award announcements will be made on July 1.  Application information is available on the AAZK website, <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>. Go to the About Us on the homepage, then to Bowling for Rhinos for info and an application.  Award announcements will be made on July 1.\r\n\r\n<a class="thickbox" href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/bfr-grant-application-instructions/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Application instructions.</a>', 'Bowling for Rhinos Conservation Resource Fund Grant', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1221-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-02-11 16:43:49', '2012-02-11 21:43:49', '', 1221, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1221-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2381, 2, '2011-12-08 15:10:58', '2011-12-08 20:10:58', '<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Application Deadline is June 1, 2012</span></h2>\r\nThe American Association of Zoo Keepers, Inc.  (AAZK) is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the Bowling for Rhinos Conservation Resource Fund. This competitive grant is designed to fund projects focused on rhino conservation and research. Successful proposals will reflect AAZK values and meet award criteria in one of four categories:\r\n<strong>·    Category I - In-situ Rhino Conservation and Research-</strong>\r\nShort-term (less than one year), specific, field research projects on African or Asian rhino species conducted by an individual or organized group of individuals working under the auspices of a zoological facility, educational entity or AAZK Conservation Partner.\r\n<strong>·    Category 2 - In–situ Community, Educational or Medical Programs (Africa or Asia)-</strong>\r\nCommunity education, school support or medical programs developed or administrated by an individual working under the auspices of a zoological facility, educational entity or AAZK Conservation Partner restricted to the continents of Africa or Asia. Preference may be given to local programs established and/or administrated by LWC (Lewa Wildlife Conservancy), IRF (International Rhino Foundation) or ACK (Action for Cheetahs in Kenya) endorsed partners.\r\n<strong>·    Category 3 - In-situ Species Conservation-</strong>\r\nShort-term (less than one year), specific, field research projects on any species that shares the exact same ecosystem as: Asian, Java, Sumatran, and African Black or White rhino.\r\n<strong>·    Category 4 - Ex-situ Rhino Conservation and Research –</strong>\r\nShort-term (less than one year), specific, zoological research projects on African or Asian rhino species conducted by an individual or organized group of individuals working under the auspices of a zoological facility, educational entity or AAZK Conservation Partner. Researcher(s) must be able to demonstrate evidence of partnership with a rhino conservation entity operating in Asia or Africa combined with a tangible benefit to an in-situ conservation project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Eligibility</strong>\r\nAffiliation or partnership with AAZK is not required, but preference may be given to AAZK Members or Conservation Partners.\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>Applications are due no later the June 1st.</strong></em></span> Award announcements will be made on July 1.  Application information is available on the AAZK website, <a href="http://www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk">www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>. Go to the About Us on the homepage, then to Bowling for Rhinos for info and an application.  Award announcements will be made on July 1.\r\n\r\n<a class="thickbox" href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/bfr-grant-application-instructions/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Application instructions.</a>', 'Bowling for Rhinos Conservation Resource Fund Grant', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1221-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-12-08 15:10:58', '2011-12-08 20:10:58', '', 1221, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1221-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
