Dec 22, 2021
Nigel Parr, Zookeeper, stops by the podcast to tell us about the breeding program that brought us Mila, the Amur tiger cub, to the Toronto Zoo. We go in-depth on the breeding process and Mila’s parents; how the Zookeepers help monitor the health of the cubs; and, how the cub is cared for by Mila’s mom Mazyria and...
Dec 8, 2021
You can count on the Wild Encounters program at the Toronto
Zoo to add more benefits to your visit to the Zoo to get a
behind-the-scenes tour of some of your favourite animals such as
the polar bears and giraffes. There are now new encounters
including goats, reptiles, and the hidden zoo (a look behind the
zoo into some...
Nov 25, 2021
Brent Huffman, lead curator of mammals, at the
Toronto Zoo joins me on this episode to discuss the importance of
coorporative breeding programs at the Zoo. Brent defines the term
“Cooporative Breeding” and tells us about various examples of
breeding programs at the Zoo as well as some of the other zoos with
which...
Nov 10, 2021
How to you transport a juvenile rhinoceros from
Toronto to Vancouver during a pandemic? Vicki Hardstaff, the
Toronto Zoo’s Animal Logistics Coordinator, joins me in today’s
episode to discuss the planning and execution of transferring Theo
the rhinoceros to the Greater Vancouver Zoo.
We discuss the number of Zoo...
Oct 27, 2021
Toby Thorne, Native Bat Coordinator, and Melissa Mayhew, Senior Environmental Scientist at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) join me on the podcast to discuss why native bat conservation is so important to the Canadian environment and how the partnership between the Zoo and the NWMO is working to...