All right. Welcome back.
Well, we love it when our friends from
the Virginia Zoo come on this s.
It is so exciting.
We talk about it all morning and they've
got a lot of fun events coming p
soon that you will not want to .
So joining us today is Talia
Roche and Mary Beth Milstead,
and they brought a friend with ,
Mary Beth. Who do we have today?
Today we have Quilly
Wonka and he is a 10 Rick.
They're from the island of Madagascar,
and they are a rainforest anima,
so they hang out on the ground.
But today we have.
Fun opportunity for him
to get into a dust bath.
OK, what he does with that he i.
So put him down, oh quilly,
and we'll see if he decides to.
Anoint himself at that dust.
OK and is quilly. Someone will see at events
this season. It's a possibility.
He's one of our animal ambassads
that we use for our programming.
We will have animal ambassadors available
at our Party for the planet eves
going to be taking place on May 20th.
And Talia has a few more
details about that event.
Yeah, so party for the planet ad
you know we love to get togethet
the zoo but there's no better te
to get together than to talk ab.
Animals and conservation.
So Party for the Planet will hae
all sorts of community partners,
volunteer opportunities for families.
It's free with admission, actua.
So it's it's really just a time
to focus on coming together
and working to save our planet.
And we even have a plant sale
with our herticulture departmen.
So there is a lot of fun things
going on with Party for the Pla.
Speaking
of fun, what is he doing right now? What he's
doing is called anointing.
It's when they find something
that smells very strong,
positively or negatively,
and they make a paste with
their hands and their spit and
then rub it over their body.
It is a way they can clean
themselves in this case,
but in nature they could be usig
poop or stool to smell like reay
nasty and they'll leave him alo.
So just a defense mechanism.
I'm learning so much.
I'm enjoying this and this is kd
of what people will be doing wih
you all at the zoo at these eve.
What else do we have going
on as the season continues?
Yeah, so we are going to have
animal ambassadors at that even.
And he actually is on the
endangered species scale,
listed as Least Concern party for the
planet happens on Endangered Species Day.
And there are other species at
our zoo that have higher range n
that scale and we'll be talking
about that with our keeper chat.
And our educator chats.
But for our friend here,
one of the ways that he can acty
exercise is similar to what he's
doing right now is we have a whl
that he can exercise on in his
natural habitat here at the zoo.
But it's also a great way to talk about
what we can do to exercise ourselves.
So our next event is Bike Night.
And that's going to be on the 2.
And Talia has a few more details on the
event itself.
So Bike Night is another way the
love to just engage with the community.
So this is National Bike Month in Norfolk.
And so we have our trails are
going to be open a little bit l.
We have a whole way that you can go around
the zoo on your bike we're going to have.
Again, bike related vendors,
so lots of just ways to get
involved with your community,
a little bit more bike related
and just learn about bike safet.
I think we'll have food trucks.
We're going to have a lot of fun actually.
It's going to be a great time.
Very, very fun.
Very.
Always something going on at the zoo,
Honestly, Active
is that included in admission as well, So
no. So Bike Night is going
to have tickets on sale now.
Actually, all advanced ticket ss
are going to be entered into a raffle
where you can win different pris
like gift certificates where even going
to be giving away a zoo membersp
so you can come back and and see
amazing animals like Quilly Won.
So there's this.
There are a lot of really fun
opportunities going on in May.
He is going to town in there, You know,
for anyone that maybe doesn't, isn't quite
sure which event they want to attend,
needs a little more information.
Where can they go to kind of learn just
a little bit more about you all? Yeah.
So we will be updating our webs,
but also social media regularly as well.
So we have Facebook events for
all of our events going on,
which you can always find updatd
information as we get it.
And then of course we also have.
Other events going on in May tht
will be added on the website as well.
Mostly it's going to be early
childhood education events eyes,
wild Tykes and zoo tails.
So there are a lot of those are on Thursdays.
There's there are always somethg
going on and the best way to fid
out is going to be the website
or Facebook and Instagram.
Thank
you so much for joining us 7 and
quilly Wonka. Thank you so muchr
joining us and enjoying your lie
dust bath as you sat here with .
We look forward to the next guyu
guys come on in the meantime we.
Hope that you guys head out
there on the 20th and the 25th,
and if not, head out there in general
and check the Virginia Zoo out.
Ladies, thank you so much.
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