Michele Gaffney, a Wild Animal Park field keeper, tells the Zoo InternQuest interns about her day on the job as they drive through the Heart of Africa in a field keeper truck.
The Zoo InternQuest Interns join JP Montagne as he searches the pit-fall traps for any coastal sage scrub species, native to San Diego.
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!
Dr. Oliver Ryder tells the Zoo InternQuest interns how vital it is to maintain a “Frozen Zoo” with living cell samples from deceased animals at the Zoo and Wild Animal Park to study their genetics and thus learn more about these species.
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.
The Zoo InternQuest interns fervently take notes as Stephanie Burns explains that the San Diego Zoo not only serves to entertain the public, but also serves to educate, inspire, and motivate people to care about conservation.
Tom Spady educates the interns on how to identify and analyze animal tracks in the wild.
The biodiversity conservationists at the Seed Bank spend their days saving seeds for future generations.
Our guide, Jennifer Tobey, is a resident koala researcher explaining the ins and outs of her field and of the koalas’ daily lives.
