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Titles:
A Bit Squirrelly
A Day Among The Animals
A Real Swinger
A Trunk Full Of ____
All Creatures Great And Small
Animals, Animals, Animals
Animal Farm
Animal House
As Long As A Bunny Has A Tail, My Love For You Will Never Fail
Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends
Bear Bottom
Bear Hugs
Bear Necessities
Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
Busy As A Beaver
Come On A Safari With Me
Dandy'lions
Dinomite Kid
Don't Be A Bear... Smile
Don't Feed The Animals
Don't Monkey Around
Elephant Entertainment
Everything You Need To Know About Being A Monkey
Eye Of The Tiger
Frogs Rule, Dogs Drool
Funky Fur
Getting In The Swing Of Things
Going Wild
Hangin' Around
Happier Than A Frog In A Rain Storm!
Horsing Around
Humongous
I Am Lion, Hear Me Roar
I Toad You So
I Work For Peanuts
If You Feel Froggy, Leap
If You Love Something, Set It Free
I'm Just Wild About ____
I'm Not A Pack Rat, I'm A Collector
In the Swing of Things
It's a Jungle Out There
Jump, Frog, Jump!
Jump'n Gee Hos-A-Fat
Just Ducky
Just 'Lion' Around
Just 'Lion' Around The House
Just Monkey'n Around
Lions, And Tigers And Bears, Oh My
Monkey Business
Monkey See, Monkey Do!
Monkeyin' Around
Monkeying Around
More Fun Than A Tree-Full Of Monkeys
My Fur-vorite Animal Is ______
Never Try To Catch Two Frogs With One Hand
No More Monkeying Around
Our Little Monkey
Party Animal
Please Don't Feed The Animals
Please Feed The Animals
Proud As A Peacock
Quiet As A Mouse
Roarin' Good Times
Something To Crow About
Something's Fishy
Strong As A Bull
Tall Tails
Talk To The Animals
The Eye Of The Tiger
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Mane Attraction
This Place Is For The Birds
Toadally Awesome
Walk On The Wild Side
Walk With The Animals
Where The Wild Things Are
Wild Thing
Wild Thing, I Think I Love You
Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sing
You Can Have Any Color As Long As Its Green
You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs To Find A Prince
You Make My Heart Leap
You Quack Me Up
You've Got The Cutest Little Monkey Face
You're My 'Mane' Man!
You're The Best And I Ain't 'Lion'
You're Un-'bear'-able
Elephants need extensive land areas to survive and meet their ecological needs, which includes food, water, and space. On average, an elephant can feed up to 18 hours and consume hundreds of pounds of plant matter in a single day. As a result, as they lose habitat, they often come into conflict with people in competition for resources. I handed out elephant coloring books to kids, and later other leaflets to adults, while others held posters noting that elephants, tigers and other animals don't belong in circuses. The coloring books were a huge hit, but as was expected many people averted their eyes. Subsequently, we can confirm that the three other tigers in Tiger Mountain and the three African lions that exhibited a cough have also tested positive for COVID-19. This testing was done by using a fecal sample test developed by our laboratory partners that does not require the animals be placed under anesthesia.
Quotes:
'Frogs have it made - they get to eat what bugs them.' ~ Unknown
'It's Not Easy Being Green' ~ Kermit The Frog
'Time's Fun When You're Havin' Flies' ~ Kermit The Frog
Ever wondered how we keep our Asian elephants in tip-top shape? There's a lot of work that goes into taking care of these giants – from bathing to exercising to conducting simple veterinary procedures. Before we can do any of these things, though, we need to have the elephants' cooperation. So we train our elephants to cooperate with their keepers: in other words, the elephants learn to help their keepers help them!
All About Rewards: Training Our Elephants
Titles:
A Bit Squirrelly
A Day Among The Animals
A Real Swinger
A Trunk Full Of ____
All Creatures Great And Small
Animals, Animals, Animals
Animal Farm
Animal House
As Long As A Bunny Has A Tail, My Love For You Will Never Fail
Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends
Bear Bottom
Bear Hugs
Bear Necessities
Birds Of A Feather Flock Together
Busy As A Beaver
Come On A Safari With Me
Dandy'lions
Dinomite Kid
Don't Be A Bear... Smile
Don't Feed The Animals
Don't Monkey Around
Elephant Entertainment
Everything You Need To Know About Being A Monkey
Eye Of The Tiger
Frogs Rule, Dogs Drool
Funky Fur
Getting In The Swing Of Things
Going Wild
Hangin' Around
Happier Than A Frog In A Rain Storm!
Horsing Around
Humongous
I Am Lion, Hear Me Roar
I Toad You So
I Work For Peanuts
If You Feel Froggy, Leap
If You Love Something, Set It Free
I'm Just Wild About ____
I'm Not A Pack Rat, I'm A Collector
In the Swing of Things
It's a Jungle Out There
Jump, Frog, Jump!
Jump'n Gee Hos-A-Fat
Just Ducky
Just 'Lion' Around
Just 'Lion' Around The House
Just Monkey'n Around
Lions, And Tigers And Bears, Oh My
Monkey Business
Monkey See, Monkey Do!
Monkeyin' Around
Monkeying Around
More Fun Than A Tree-Full Of Monkeys
My Fur-vorite Animal Is ______
Never Try To Catch Two Frogs With One Hand
No More Monkeying Around
Our Little Monkey
Party Animal
Please Don't Feed The Animals
Please Feed The Animals
Proud As A Peacock
Quiet As A Mouse
Roarin' Good Times
Something To Crow About
Something's Fishy
Strong As A Bull
Tall Tails
Talk To The Animals
The Eye Of The Tiger
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Mane Attraction
This Place Is For The Birds
Toadally Awesome
Walk On The Wild Side
Walk With The Animals
Where The Wild Things Are
Wild Thing
Wild Thing, I Think I Love You
Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sing
You Can Have Any Color As Long As Its Green
You Have To Kiss A Lot Of Frogs To Find A Prince
You Make My Heart Leap
You Quack Me Up
You've Got The Cutest Little Monkey Face
You're My 'Mane' Man!
You're The Best And I Ain't 'Lion'
You're Un-'bear'-able
Elephants need extensive land areas to survive and meet their ecological needs, which includes food, water, and space. On average, an elephant can feed up to 18 hours and consume hundreds of pounds of plant matter in a single day. As a result, as they lose habitat, they often come into conflict with people in competition for resources. I handed out elephant coloring books to kids, and later other leaflets to adults, while others held posters noting that elephants, tigers and other animals don't belong in circuses. The coloring books were a huge hit, but as was expected many people averted their eyes. Subsequently, we can confirm that the three other tigers in Tiger Mountain and the three African lions that exhibited a cough have also tested positive for COVID-19. This testing was done by using a fecal sample test developed by our laboratory partners that does not require the animals be placed under anesthesia.
Quotes:
'Frogs have it made - they get to eat what bugs them.' ~ Unknown
'It's Not Easy Being Green' ~ Kermit The Frog
'Time's Fun When You're Havin' Flies' ~ Kermit The Frog
Ever wondered how we keep our Asian elephants in tip-top shape? There's a lot of work that goes into taking care of these giants – from bathing to exercising to conducting simple veterinary procedures. Before we can do any of these things, though, we need to have the elephants' cooperation. So we train our elephants to cooperate with their keepers: in other words, the elephants learn to help their keepers help them!
All About Rewards: Training Our Elephants
We train our elephants using a system called operant conditioning. It may sound complicated, but it's really very simple: desired behaviors are rewarded (positive reinforcement) while undesirable behaviors are not. Rewards include things like food treats, verbal praise and enrichment items.
Using rewards helps build positive relationships between our elephants and their keepers – relationships that are absolutely essential to good elephant care. See Getting Ready for Baby (elephant, that is!) for more details.
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Our keepers work with the elephants, training them to voluntarily participate in their daily care routine. Since our elephants and keepers are usually separated from each other by barriers, the animals learn to move over to certain 'access doors' for common procedures (like lifting their foot near a 'foot panel' so their keepers can perform daily foot care). The elephants are also trained to cooperate with regular veterinary procedures (like having blood drawn) as well as less-frequent ones (like having an ultrasound). And they also learn how to move between their indoor home and their outdoor habitats at River's Edge.
In the end, all that training is well worth it: our elephants cooperate in their daily care routine.
Keeping Busy: Daily Care of Our Elephants
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How do our elephants spend their days? Here's an example of some of the things that keep them – and their keepers – busy:
- Baths – Anybody have a really big bar of soap? At least once a week, our elephants head to a special shower stall to get cleaned up. They often lie down or stretch out (rear legs bent, front legs extended) so their keepers can hose off and scrub their backs (elephant exfoliation!)
- Oral hygiene – No, our keepers don't use elephant-sized toothbrushes, but they do take good care of our elephants' teeth (including the bull's tusks and the females' tushes, a smaller version of a tusk). Keepers inspect the animals' mouth and teeth daily, and trim the tusks and tushes on a regular basis (which helps prevent the elephants from injuring themselves or each other).
- Foot care – It might not be a spa pedicure, but it's close! Every day our keepers inspect the elephants' nails, cuticles, and pads to make sure they're in excellent shape.
- Weigh-in – Talk about tipping the scales! Every day we weigh our elephants to monitor their overall health and growth rates, and also to track pre-natal weight gain on the pregnant cows.
- Routine veterinary checks – An ounce of prevention is worth, well, several tons of cure! To keep track of our elephants' overall health, we collect and analyze blood and urine samples. We also collect blood samples on a weekly basis to monitor hormone levels which helps with breeding efforts.
- Exercise – They might not do yoga, but our elephants get plenty of exercise. Outside, they have the opportunity to run around, swim, even play in a waterfall. Indoors, they get the chance to exercise when they do things like play with 'toys' and take baths.
To learn more about how our elephants exercise and have fun throughout the day, check out Enriching our Elephants.
