Caleb Ulick Email & Phone Number

Promoted as a senior member on the Elephant Care Team, delivering exceptional animal care and welfare of three African elephants, a mob of slender-tailed meerkats, and a colony of naked mole-rats• Expertise in geriatric herd management, elephant behavior and husbandry, with proficiency in operant conditioning, behavioral enrichment, and coordinating elephant emergency response.• Coordinates daily activities and communicates with Veterinary, Nutrition, Horticulture, Education, Operations, and Maintenance Teams in the absence of the Elephant Manager• Contributes to population management and conservation efforts through participating in monthly semen collection attempts with our male African elephant and serving as Institutional Representative for the Meerkat Species Survival Program• Demonstrates leadership by mentoring and training team members, supervising interns as Elephant Intern Coordinator, and coordinating volunteer husbandry aides as Volunteer Liaison

Continued to play a key role on the Elephant Care Team, adding responsibilities as a training mentor and the team's Elephant Intern Coordinator and Volunteer Liaison• Led the development of an ongoing elephant space and use study using ZooMonitor• Collaborated with the zoo's Education Department to develop, write, and implement a public program demonstrating training and providing elephant care in human care• Created a TikTok detailing "A Day in the Life of an Elephant Care Professional at Zoo Atlanta" that was considered "wildly successful" and currently has more than 175,000 views • Served as a qualified member of the zoo's Specialized Emergency Response Team

Hired onto the Elephant Care Team which cared for two female African elephants, two elderly slender-tailed meerkats, and a colony of naked mole-rats• Involved in the transition and opening of the zoo's brand-new "African Savanna" expansion, including a state-of-the-art elephant facility, and the zoo's expanding elephant program• Assumed role as the zoo's Institutional Representative for the Meerkat Species Survival Program

Covered a full-time, 12-week maternity leave as a temporary elephant keeper on the Elephant Care Team that cared for eight African elephants • Was trained to assist in complex shifting procedures, maintain husbandry behaviors through training, prepare diets, provide enrichment, identify browse, give keeper chats, and ZIMs record keeping• Became proficient in operating heavy machinery for habitat maintenance, sand stall upkeep, and browse collection

Completed a summer-long internship working with two female African elephants, two warthogs, and four slender-tailed meerkats• Assisted in the daily husbandry, focusing on elephant care, enrichment creation and implementation, meerkat environmental enrichment, and warthog behavioral training

A part of the seasonal animal care team that facilitated animal interactions and provided the daily husbandry of the zoo's Zoo Farm• Skilled in split-hoof trimming, equine hoof care, raptor handling, and livestock haltering • Educated zoo guests through daily keeper chats, animal encounters, and area interpretation