During our visit to the Reproductive Physiology Lab, Dr. Tom Jensen placed this chicken egg against a lightbulb, a process called candling. The interns could actually see the embryo’s heart beating!

Lindsay, a Zoo InternQuest intern, removes the membranes from the chicken egg. Dr. Jensen commonly removes these membranes to draw blood or test the embryo. He can do this without harming the future chick at all!

The next day, at the Zoo, Andy Dannenberger, one of the Zoo’s horticulturists, let the interns plant vegetables along the paths of Monkey Trails.

This enormous 220-ton fig tree was moved from the front of the Zoo to its new home, 214 feet away, at Monkey Trails. It took a whole month to move the tree, but it was well worth the wait!

As our reward for our work planting in the Monkey Trails, we visited the gorilla exhibit. One of the Zoo’s silverback gorillas, Don Paul, raises his arm for a tasty treat. His keepers have trained him to use several hand movements so that he can communicate what he needs.

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