Big Crowd at the Zoo today

With tomorrow being Easter and the family coming over here for Dinner, I thought I'd spend a little time at the Zoo today.  Judging from the cars in the lot I believe this was the largest crowd they've had this year.

I took our Rhino horn up to the Rhino Exhibit and talked to people as they came by and let them touch a 'real' Rhino horn while I told them a little about our Rhino's.  The horn we have the the smaller of the two horns, it came off one of our Rhino's when she damaged her horn.  I believe the people enjoyed it, and I know I did.  I find that to be a lot of fun.  I was at the Rhino exhibit for about an hour and a half.



When I took the Rhino horn back to the MetaZoo, I talked to two other Docents who had manned a table with a Tegu for about an hour and were getting ready to go up to the Glacier Run Exhibit.  They mentioned the Penguin exhibit, which has been closed for cleaning for about 2 weeks, and how nice it looks now.  So, I decided to swing by and see it on my way out of the Zoo.

They were right.  It does look nice, and I'm sure it's close to being open again.  But, I found it interesting walking through the Islands Exhibit, with my Docent shirt and ID tags.  Most people believe you are an 'Employee' of the Zoo, and ask "Do you work here?"  I tell them, "Well, I'm a Volunteer, not an Employee."  But people, seeing the shirt and tag, will ask you all kinds of questions.  "What kind of bush is that?"  "Is this statue Life Size?"  "Where are the baby animals?"  Plus, I think one of the most asked questions when you're doing an interpretation at an exhibit is "How old is she?", or whatever kind of animal it is.  But they always seem to be interested in the age.  So, I'll have to make sure I know the 'age' of the animal I'm going to be near.  They won't let me spin any yarns.  But, I don't care how much you study and know about the area you're going to be around, somebody will stump you with a question.