Elephant Keeper Iii
Current- 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.
- Demonstrates leadership by mentoring and training team members, supervising interns as Elephant Intern Coordinator, and coordinating volunteer husbandry aides as Volunteer Liaison