Working at the Zoo on Sunday

I went to the Zoo today.  I had signed up to work at the Lorikeet Pavilion from Noon til 2:00 today.  But, getting dressed in my Docent yellow shirt and sitting around waiting or the rain to stop, when 11:45 came I decided that there wouldn't be anyone at the Zoo today.  So, I decided not to go and went downstairs and changed shirts.
About 15-20 minutes later, it was clear and it looked like the sun was going to come out.  So, I figured I'd better get to the Zoo and see if anybody was showing up.
They had a pretty good crowd for such a poor start to the day.  Seeing quite a few cars in the lot I thought I'd better go inside, sign in, and get to the Lorikeets.  Well, the Lorikeets were closed!  So, because I was already there I thought I might as well make myself useful.
I decided to take our Rhino horn up to the Rhino Exhibit and talk to people about the Rhino's and let them touch a real Rhino horn.  It was fun, and I guess I talked to about 100 people.  They all seemed to enjoy it.  One of our Rhino's lost a horn a little over a year ago, so we have it to use at the Zoo.  Rhino horns are made of the same thing our hair and fingernails are made of, Keratin.  Rhino's don't normally loose there horns, but it will fall off if it is damaged much like our fingernails.  When we mash a finger, the nail blackens, and the nail will eventually fall off and another will grow.  Same with a Rhino horn.  The Rhino, Lulu, is growing a new horn.  This isn't a picture of her, just one I got on-line, but this is a White Rhino like the 2 at the Zoo.
It's fun to talk to the people, and I think it enhances their trip to the Zoo.  I always learn a few things myself that helps me the next time I do this.  There are always questions asked that I don't know the answer, so it makes me look them up when I get home so I'll have an answer next time.  One of the first things they told us in training was "If you don't know, don't make anything up!".  Mary Lynn says that it's taking away one of my best talents.