Giant Panda

Last week I volunteered again at the dc zoo.  I wanted to show you a picture of what it looks like when I arrive at the zoo in the morning.  And by this time I have already been up for an hour and a half.

I walked to the sloth bear building where I arrived at 6:35am, then me and the keeper immediately went down the hill to start feeding and shifting animals out.  After we shifted the animals out we went down to feed the red pandas and clean their enclosure.  After that we went into the panda building and talked with the panda keepers for a little bit since we had some extra time from starting early.  Then we went back up to the cat/otter area where we cleaned the inside enclosures for the morning.  Then the keeper wanted to go looking for cinderblocks that way she could move a fishtank into the cat area for the fishing cats instead of in the otter building.  We searched and only found one...but then thought about the logistics and figured the tank wouldnt fit very well in the building.

Here are some panda pictures I took:

After that we went back up to the sloth bear building and waited until the sloth bear demo, then we ate lunch and had the unit meeting.  After the meeting finished we then made enrichment for the sloth bears for the evening before ending the day.