Rebecca Mansel Email & Phone Number

Care for 120+ animals as part of the AAR team- trained on 4 of 5 strings, parrots, show mammals, raptors and small mammals-participate in daily so

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Primary keeper for black and white lemurs, meerkats, hyrax, birds, and prehensile-tail porcupines. I've also cared for sand cats, naked-mole rats, and education animals.Part of my duties also includes animal handling and presentations. I'm working on multiple training projects which includes station training lemurs and crate training meerkats.

Assisted show staff with caring for show animals. This included cleaning holdings, enrichment, and diet prep. Also assisted in bird show. Presented conservation messages to zoo visitors. Engaged visitors with activities focusing on our Future for Wildlife animals. Monitored macropods and guests in walkabout

Akron, Oh

I cared for 4 of the 5 routines in the Legends of the WIld area. I was responsible for pygmy slow lorises, seba's short tail bats, Egyptian straw colored fruit bats, Rodriguez bats, and cave snakes on the bat routine. I also cared for lemurs, leaf tail geckos and tomato frogs on the lemur routine. Hoofstock routine included tahr, musk deer, alpaca, capybara, and amphibians, Bird routine included bald eagles, snowy owls, flamingos, waterfowl pond, macaws and an aviary. I was responsible for care, diets, enrichment, medical procedures, and exhibit care. I also created and implemented a training program for a pygmy slow loris.

Assistant Naturalist- Natural Tracks - Visits schools, festivals with mobile education unit - Gives presentations with biofacts and live animals - Shares knowledge of Ohio wildlife and Cleveland Metroparks

North America section intern - cleans exhibits - feeds diets - implements enrichment - works with dangerous animals, polar bears , brown bears, cougars, and black bears - interacts with public

Wildlife Intern - cleaned exhibits - prepared and fed diets - created and implemented enrichment- gave presentations to public

Oversaw the admission process for 5 graduate programs, Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Pharmacology and Toxioclogy, and Physiology. Built and ran website and was in charge of social media. Organized 500+ applications, 50 visitors interview weekends, payroll, and more

Manages 400+ applications each year, organizes interview weekends for over 100 applicants, payroll for all grad students, event planning, balances ledger, website building and updating, and general office duties (typing, filing, phones).

Marketing and communication work with the office of Development and Alumni Relation for the College of Arts and Letters! GO STATE!

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Zoology/Animal Biology

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, General

Activities and Societies: Spartan Marching Band, HOM-TV intern