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Steve pondered the golf cart. The hoofstock, who rotated enclosures and pastures seasonally to reduce grazing pressure, had just been moved to their winter spaces. The large hoofstock of the Acacia Expanse were now in the off-exhibit back pastures aside from the hartebeests, who had been butting heads with the new topi herd. He wasn't sure yet if they would have to be seperated permanently, or if they just needed time to stake out their territorial claims. Oftentimes the most similair ...

The zoo was getting rhinos for the first time, and the preparations were intense. After a long time of planning and negotiations, they were slated to recieve two white rhinos; a female from a safari park across the country and a male from a zoo in the next state over.  Of course, before they could recieve their new residents, they had to prepare a suitible habitat for them to live. The zoo primarily housed savannah hoofstock, with nice "display" habitats up front in easy...

It was incredibly important to make sure an animal is capable of thriving in the environment it is to be released in. So far, the zoo’s first Monterey Platyfish has shown its ability to scavenge for its own food. The small fish was healthy and could maneuver itself around its environment with efficiency. The next step was ensuring it could interact with others of its species. If the reintroduction of the species was to be successful, the animals would have to interact and breed with each ot...

Prompt 4: Social Skills It was a misty morning at the Sanctuary. The birds were mostly quiet in their aviarys, excepting of course the aquatics who were all too happy to be out in the brisk morning air foraging algae, tadpoles and crumbles. The parrots of the sanctuary were a little less excited about the mist and were staying under the cover of their enclosures, waiting for the sun to burn off the morning mist. ...