Tuli, a striped hyena from the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park, is slowly learning to not be so fearful of unknown noises and people at the animal training facility.

Pocahontas, an African porcupine, touches her nose to her trainers fist. This is only one of the many nonverbal commands that Poky has learned to perform in the Wild Animal Park’s animal demonstrations. You might come across one of these spontaneous animal meetings at several different areas in the Wild Animal Park - an unexpected encounter!

Steve Fobes, Zoo architect, points out some key features of the future seven-acre Elephant Odyssey exhibit to the Zoo InternQuest interns.

The Zoo InternQuest interns take a quick ride to the building site. Though it is still under construction, the exhibit will turn into an elephant paradise!

The Zoo InternQuest Interns aren’t just standing on a pile of rubble in the future Elephant Odyssey exhibit. The piles of cement and wire are going to be recycled and used for other building purposes rather than becoming waste on our planet!

Three giraffes curiously examine the Zoo InternQuest Interns as they observe the future Elephant Odyssey grounds. Once again, the animals are just as interested in us as we are interested in them!

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