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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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i think this is Sophia... Could be Zoey though. Did she have a bald tail?
I work at this zoo
Hoping to zoo keeper intern for the anteaters next semester.
If you don't know/haven't heard of why they are our symbol, I could explain
I volunteer at the Oregon Zoo so it's nice to meet other people who live in a zoo land XD.
And I don't see any bald spots on other pictures I have of this ant eater.
I thought I remembered reading something about it but probably couldn't recall the reason off the top of my head.
i started out as a volunteer last year and they decided to hire me on! It was very exciting.
If the anteater has a curly tail, it's xander, our male. If it is droopy, it's zoey, and if it is slightly bald on the end, and makes kind of a fish tail look, that's little miss sohpia.
as for the story, i'll give it short lol
We were the first to breed 3rd generation anteaters, so we hold the stud book for all the anteaters in AZA accredited zoos (for the species survival program).
I was the photo team chair for a year, there's animal talking to do, enrichment building for the animals, animal observation, there's zoo mobiles that go out to head start programs and retirement homes, animal care where we get to work with the keepers (after a year of volunteering and an application form) and there's special event hosting like zoo-brew, donation events and general zoo events that need the volunteer's help to run the events. I think the volunteers have the manpower of...well a lot of full time employees.
No idea if this will help but here's more of a view of the tail [link] I think it's the same anteater.
That's awesome. It's nice to see not super popular animals as zoo icons.
That's sophia
OR Zoo is going through some changes in the next few years, bigger elephant exhibit, new polar bear exhibit and a few other things that fit with their 20 year master plan.
I did notice that there was a bit of fur missing in one picture.