EPISODE 160
FULL SPECIES LIST:
1. Bald Eagle
2. North American Grey Wolf
3. California Condor, Red-tailed Hawk
4. Jaguar
5. Coastal Brown Bear, Grizzly Bear
6. Mountain Lin
7. American Black Bear
8. American Bison
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– Bald Eagle and California Condor: https://www.ventanaws.org/
– Grey Wolf (I chose this one!): https://www.californiawolfcenter.org/
– Jaguar: https://arcasguatemala.org/where-we-are/arcas-peten/
– Grizzly Bear: https://peopleandcarnivores.org/
– Mountain Lions: https://bapp.org/
– Black Bear: https://savebears.org/
– Bison: https://mtcf.org/local-cfs/blackfeet-community-endowment-fund
Animal Cams: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/webcams
California Trail: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/californiatrail
Habitarium Gallery: https://ecos.us/item/california-conservation-habitarium/
Facts About the Gondola: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/gondola
Zoo Website: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/
Zoo Map: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/map
Other ways you can help the animals in this video according to the Oakland Zoo’s Website:
Bald Eagle:
– Use nontoxic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers & other chemicals; use all other chemicals only in accordance to law.
– Help protect old growth trees, particularly within a mile from water, and other roost/nest sites and important foraging areas.
– If you see an eagle or nest, please let Ventana Wildlife Society know If you see an eagle pair you want to protect, ask VWS to help support you with this noble endeavor.
Wolf:
– As wolves return to their historic range in the United States (including California): Advocate for lowering the risk of human/predator conflict, especially for ranchers.
– Never feed wild animals; walk pets on leash; keep small pets inside; supervise small children outside; secure garbage, compost, & pet foods; stay informed!
– Keep dogs inside unless supervised because hybridization with wolves can impact the overall population and genetics of wild wolves.
Condor:
– Never use lead bullets! Alternative bullets are available that can compete well with lead in accuracy, range, and killing power, and, like lead, they pose little threat of damage to gun barrels.
– Encourage hunters to remove bodies of animals they have killed (whether game or non-game species).
– Pick up trash. Many condors, especially chicks & juveniles, have been found with micro-trash in their bodies.
Jaguar:
– The impact of jaguar predation on domestic livestock depends largely on the availability of natural prey and herd management practices. Therefore, advocate for a change in ranch management throughout the jaguar’s range.
– Purchase jaguar friendly coffee which comes from coffee plantations and companies that do not kill jaguars Purchase Shade Grown coffee which keeps rainforests habitat intact and thriving for jaguars and other species.
Grizzly Bear:
– Do not hunt bears and contact your government to express your interest in grizzly bear conservation and decreasing fragmentation between populations.
– Properly store your food and pick up trash when you go into bear territory.
– Never come between a mother and her cubs. Depredation occurs with bears when they are too habituated to humans or if they attack. If we clean up after ourselves and pay attention to our surroundings, we can easily save the lives of bears.
– When in Grizzly habitat, act responsibly: Use bear proof containers, carry
Mountain Lion:
– When working in your garden build a deer-resistant yard. Deer bring mountain lions to developed areas; if deer do not spend time in our yards, this will greatly reduce human/mountain lion conflict.
– Never feed wild animals; walk pets on leash; keep small pets inside; supervise small children outside, especially at twilight.
Black Bear:
– Do not hunt bears and contact your government to express your interest in black bear conservation and decreasing fragmentation between populations.
– If you witness an illegal poaching, call 888-DFG-CALTIP (Californians Turn In Poachers and Polluters), or donate to the CalTIP Foundation for reporter rewards. Learn more from our partners the BEAR League.
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QUESTION OF THE EPISODE: What is the funniest or silliest thing you've ever heard at a zoo? Going to over 50 zoos, theme parks, aquariums and more, you're bound to hear something that'll trigger an eye roll. So much so, I have to listen to music when I visit zoos anymore. I've heard pottos be mistaken as bats, tapirs as bears, and probably around 100 other similar comments. However… nothing will ever beat the time in St. Louis when I heard SIX consecutive full grown adults refer to painted dogs as prairie dogs.
FULL SPECIES LIST:
1. Bald Eagle
2. North American Grey Wolf
3. California Condor, Red-tailed Hawk
4. Jaguar
5. Coastal Brown Bear, Grizzly Bear
6. Mountain Lion
7. American Black Bear
8. American Bison
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Stay Wild: California: https://www.thezoocrewgiftshop.com/listing/california-stay-wild-5-colo?product=2
Grizzly Bear (Beach Sunset): https://www.thezoocrewgiftshop.com/listing/grizzly-bear-sunset-beach-5?product=2
OR put the money to better use and donate it to any of these organizations that are supported by the zoo AND help the species in this video:
– Bald Eagle and California Condor: https://www.ventanaws.org/
– Grey Wolf (I chose this one!): https://www.californiawolfcenter.org/
– Jaguar: https://arcasguatemala.org/where-we-are/arcas-peten/
– Grizzly Bear: https://peopleandcarnivores.org/
– Mountain Lions: https://bapp.org/
– Black Bear: https://savebears.org/
– Bison: https://mtcf.org/local-cfs/blackfeet-community-endowment-fund
California Trail Map: https://image.architonic.com/prj2-3/20134384/noll-tam-architects-oakland-zoo-california-trail-drawing-arcit18.jpg
Animal Cams: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/webcams
California Trail: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/californiatrail
Habitarium Gallery: https://ecos.us/item/california-conservation-habitarium/
Facts About the Gondola: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/gondola
Zoo Website: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/
Zoo Map: https://www.oaklandzoo.org/map
Just saying but this exhibit makes me think of elephant odyssey since elephant odyssey has species that represent the extinct species that used to live in California.
If you wached GODZILLA 2014
Its was in San Francisco
As a former Staten Island Zoo volunteer, one of the goofiest things I saw was when on of the signs for the Rodrigues Flying Foxes had the scientific labeling of the Southern Cassowary.
I'm so happy you did my home zoo as I grew up in small town of Piedmont which was practically surrounded by Oakland. In fact, this was the last exhibit I ever saw before my parents moved to Reno, NV because the mortgage on my childhood home was getting too expensive.
This is such a good exhibit. The amount of space the animals get is great to see
You should do a video about Bear Woods at the Wild Place Project in the UK
Yowza! First time at the Oakland Zoo, eh! Yet, I've been there back in 2009! Say, visit the San Francisco Zoo sooner or later, Zak, along with the Woodland Park Zoo, too! Plus, here are 4 zoo trivia questions for you & your girlfriend….
1) What year did the 2 cheetah brothers move into the Sacramento Zoo?
2) How many years ago did the San Diego Zoo originally house Bactrian Camels?
3) If you could think of any zoo that should house indris, which one would it be?
4) Which sea otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium passed away from old age this year?
The silliest thing I experienced at a zoo was something I saw. For some reason, someone decided to feed camels peanuts
silliest thing ive heard at a zoo was at my local zoo in australia, were they had to close the walk through lemur exhibit because the lemurs starting throwing there poo at the guests
For the question: one time some dude yelled "roar tiger roar…"
He was looking at a cougar.
Thank you so much because I’m going to go to the Oakland in a few days and I really needed a tour
My local zoo 🙂
If u visit, make sure to visit Osh the elephant. He’s pretty cool as he’s got two trunks that he likes to show off to/traumatize visitors
Among my many favorites are "mommy look at the penguin!" "no honey, that's a bird" about a puffin, someone calling penguins otters, sea lions stingrays, and of course the countless tigers called lions. Probably my favorite was someone trying to convince their girlfriend that a klipspringers scent glands were it's second "nose holes" tho.
The silliest thing I can think of was on Kilimanjaro Safaris at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in March 2021. We saw two lions in love and I can’t remember who said it (either our driver or a guest): “I guess they can feel the love tonight!”
Awesome tour as always, Zach
I work at Zoo Atlanta and have heard many silly things from guests. But the one that takes the cake is a lady once asked if it was true that all lions are boys and all tigers are girls.
Keep up the great work, Zach
The silliest thing at a zoo that I’ve heard was when I was at the Reid Park Zoo in Tuscon,Arizona. My family and I finished looking at the Zebras and ostriches,and as we walked away,I heard some grunting. I came back to see what the noise was,and it was the zebras chasing each other,while the ostriches ran around!
For silly, it's a combo of things that had a massive earworm to it.
When Cincy added all of their "Zoo Keys" thing with electronic key card things that you could plug in to hear a little jingle about whichever animal or thing it was connected to.
Unfortunately, if they glitched, each would play the even older Zoo! Zoo! Zoo! theme, and there was this kid who kept screwing with them to lock them into repeating that over and over again where he'd do it so it would lock in and go sit nearby…the maintenance people would show up and fix it, then the kid would set it off again. I don't know what he was doing with it, but if anyone else used it, the normal info jingle would play.
But it was kind of funny to see the mess, especially when the maintenance guy figured out what was going on and just started singing along which confused the kid…
Will you be doing a break down of this zoo?
The silliest thing I have ever heard at a zoo was at Sea Lion Sound at the St.Louis zoo. I kid was looking at a harbor seal and saying it was a leopard seal I could him it was a harbor seal. He looked and me and then continued to shout that it was a leopard seal. I got so excited when I saw that the next video has a hammerhead shark.
This zoo is what I would consider to be my "home zoo," I grew up going to it and when I go visit my parents I try to make a trip out to the OZ. They have an awesome social media team, they are super transparent and informative. What I love is that all the animals are treated as individuals, so we the public get to know their names and personalities. Some things I'd love to add to your video, just because I'm a huge fan of this zoo – their previous lions were rescued from someone who owned them illegally as cubs, their current lions are brothers from a captive breeding at another AZA zoo. The tigers were likely born at Tiger King's facility and then ended up at a roadside zoo that closed, and were rescued only a few years ago, they are both seniors and one is actually a liger. Every year the zoo breeds their bison herd, and then every year half of the bison are sent to the reservation they partner with to reintroduce them to the area. What's interesting is that instead of only sending the juveniles, since bison are very bonded to their mothers even as adults, they send mother and baby together. Also, the wolves came from a pair that was recommended for breeding by the SSP and were brought together when California Trail opened. They had four cubs in one litter and then no more breeding was allowed. The father has since passed, but the plan was always to create a natural pack by having a family unit. And finally, the jaguars are under a breeding recommendation currently and the zoo is hoping for cubs sometime this year.
I recently heard someone call a tamarin a chimpanzee… right in front of the educational sign.
Do the Tulsa zoo so they might finally feel the need for some renovation
The silliest thing I heard at a zoo was when I interned at my local zoo, Staten Island Zoo, during my sophomore year of college. One day I heard a guy tell his kid “Look at the otter” while they were looking at the groundhogs.
I was at the Fort Wayne Childrens Zoo and heard another guest calling the Black and White Colobus monkeys by the wrong name, skunk monkeys.
I’m a zookeeper and I’ve heard people misidentify animals sooooo many times, but the lady who asked me if our spoonbills were related to platypuses takes the cake
I was visiting a small zoo in Glasgow and they had a pair of porcupine in an aviary. This prompted a woman to ask me whether porcupines could fly
A guy in a wheelchair was waiting to see polar bears at Brookfield Zoo. Being in a wheelchair the most common thing you see in a zoo is other people's hind ends. So, he waited patiently for people to move on so he could move up and see the bears. A little girl literally vaulted over him into the spot. He said something quietly that rhymes with trucking rich. The father overheard, though, and spun with a raised fist, saw it was the guy in the wheelchair, and realized the optics of the situatuon and quickly descalated. Later on we were in the Living Coast exhibit and the same guy was watching the moon jellies when two children ran over and literally began climbing on him and his wheelchair screaming in his ear "Is that even real???!!!" To which he forcefully replied, "No."
You should check out the wild life ranch in San Antonio
I have heard a few things at the Brookfield Zoo that are pretty silly, but none of them compare to this one. A few years ago my brother and I were looking at the macaws, and this lady with her child walked into aviary and the lady pointed and said “look at the pelicans”. My brother and I tried so hard not to laugh, and we officially cracked when the lady left.
Brookfield Zoo does have pelicans, but they can only be seen outside in warm weather. The macaws are in an indoor building. I wanted to correct her, but that sentence caught me off so much I did not know what to think.
you should cheak out the oregon zoo and bosie zoo
I’ve been going to that zoo all my life and it has been one of my favorite zoos of all time!! I was an intern zookeeper working with the elephants and education animals and it was great! I had anticipated the California Trail ever since it was built and was even there on the grand opening ceremony!! THANK YOU for visiting our zoo!! Btw you should check out Fresno Chaffee Zoo with their new exhibit Kingdoms of Asia. I’ve got some video footage if you want to use it
"The silliest thing I've heard in a zoo"?…
When a guest expressed their concerns over whether or not the zoo still served the carnivores (specifically the felids) meat. The zookeeper handy very patiently explained how the cats were only used to a carnivorous diet, that tofu wouldn't do. This didn't stop the guest from their last question — "Can't you make the tofu look like meat for them?" God bless the keeper when they moved on from that chat. Their day was busy as it was.
– take care, slainte chugat