Emily Fitzgerald

● Completed daily husbandry, maintaining clean enclosures and yards, and fulfilling individual dietary needs.

● Monitored the health and welfare of animals on a daily basis.

● Maintained accurate documents of behavior and feeding.

• Participated in positive reinforcement training and enrichment projects.

• Completed daily husbandry, maintaining clean enclosures and yards, and fulfilling individual dietary needs
• Monitored the health and welfare of animals on a daily basis
• Maintained accurate documents of behavior and feeding
• Experience hand-rearing camels and giraffe
• Prepared and administered medications
• Worked to cultivate a happy, healthy, and safe environment for animals and zoo visitors
• Working free contact with a constant breeding herd of up to 14 Bongos with the other species rotating based on need
• These species included Llamas, Warthog, Kunekune pigs, Eland, Wildebeest, Scimitar horned oryx, Watusi, Scottish highland cattle, Elk, Dromedary camel, Bactrian camel, Vietnamese potbelly pig, Red Kangaroo, Rhea, Emu, Pheasant, Nilgai, Nyala, Marabou storks
• Assist in other areas of the park as needed including the Giraffe and White Rhino barns.

• Completed daily husbandry including preparing diets, maintaining clean and safe living conditions
• Monitoring and maintaining accurate documents on health and welfare of animals
• Assisted in herding and transport
• Managing the safety of park guest
• Animal species included: Eland, Watusi, Wildebeest, Asiatic Water buffalo, llama, Fallow deer, Axis deer, Sika deer, Blackbuck, Rhea, Warthog, Kunekune pigs, Scottish- highland cattle, Bison, Grant's zebra, yak, ostrich

• Provided daily husbandry, maintained clean enclosures, prepared diets and medications, assisted in shifting zebras, and observed and participated in training sessions
• Provided enrichment opportunities
• Animals included: Hartmann's mountain zebras, Bongo, White Rhino, Watusi, Masai Giraffe, Red River Hog, Duiker, Meerkat, Lion, Cheetah, ostrich, Southern ground hornbill, Stanley crane, Egyptian goose, Cape porcupine.

• Provided daily care, preparing diets, deep cleaning habitats, and medication administration to a variety of animal species (small mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish)
• Implementing special educational programs
• Educating the public about care of the animals.

• Restrained and stabilized animals during examination and treatment to prevent injuries
• Documented patient information with precision to maintain records accuracy
• Preparing medications, vaccines, and surgical instruments.