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EATM in the News...!!!! Below are some recent articles, news events and TV clips about the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program.. September 2007 The Butterfly Project of MC has established a second endangered butterfly captive population. In 2006, the zoo received Palos Verdes blue butterflies. Based on the early success of that program, it now hosts the Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly, a species from the San Francisco Bay region. The five Lange butterflies, collected from the wild in September, have already produced 241 eggs, said project coordinator Jana Johnson. Found only on the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, 40 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly is experiencing a dramatic population decline of unknown cause. Suspected factors include invasion of the habitat by non-native plants, and harvesting of the butterfly’s only plant host, the buckwheat, for camp fires. Partners for the current effort include the The Urban Wildlands Group, Inc., the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, the U.S. Fish Wildlife Service (Sacramento), University of California Riverside, the Zoological Society of San Diego’s Native Seed Gene Bank, and Osborne Biological Consulting. America's Teaching Zoo on "The Futures Channel". Mastercard
Commercial - Elephant trained by EATM graduate. Palos
Verdes Blue - Butterfly Information Articles about the EATM "Butterfly Project"... January 2007 Article about a new
baby camel at America's Teaching Zoo. Article from the Denver Post - Published August 29, 2006 July 2006 For the second time in just five years, America’s Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College has received national media attention. In 2001, Moorpark 24/7, a 15-episode documentary for Animal Planet, aired on the Discovery Channel. The highly-watched chronicle of the arduous life of an Exotic Animal Training and Management (EATM) student was produced by independent filmmakers Tapestry International. Moorpark24/7 is still running in Europe. In June 2006 Penguin Books published "Kicked, Bitten and Scratched", another in-depth look at the students in the EATM program by writer Amy Sutherland. This chronicle is dramatic as the writer’s approach was to focus on the emotional response of the students as they absorb the knowledge they need to be compassionate and informed animal care providers. The book has received positive reviews from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly who describe Kicked, Bitten and Scratched as a magical and fascinating tour of a program and note that readers will acquire a new and enhanced respect for animal training, a little known profession. EATM staff acknowledge that the book addresses some realities of studying at the Teaching Zoo, like having to say goodbye to a dying, elderly animal, and the tedium of cleaning excrement from dozens of enclosures on a daily basis. “EATM staff thoroughly prepare students for the animal care and welfare industry,” said Holly Tumas, zoo operations assistant and program spokesperson. “Students participate in the best care possible that is provided to the animal collection through diverse behavioral enrichment, proper nutrition, mental and physical stimulation as well as husbandry training. The Zoo’s veterinarian Dr.Cynthia Stringfield provides excellent medical care year-round.”
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