November 5, 2025 • 13 mins
For Animal House, Senior Ambassador Animal Keeper, Christina O'Donnell, and Team Lead Zoo Teacher, Josh Brandel, from the Central Florida Zoo, bring along their New Guinea blue-tongued skink, Reptar, to celebrate the opening of the Asian Lantern Festival.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's a big breath.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That is a big breath. Thank you very much. How
you guys doing great?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
How have you been.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Goohead, fat and sassy? You have not been here since
last December?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Right, Yeah, it's been a minute, but lots hus been
going on at the zoo. So we are excited.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I know, I love the enthusiasm.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Because returs is so you know, I mean, we had
to bounce it out.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It is so this is reptile. What is repti again?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
So repti here? He is a blue tongued skink. Me too,
So you're not gonna show it off. But he has
this nice bright blue tongue on him, really, and he
is gonna show it off if he gets scared or
anything to kind of scare off predators.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
So imagine like you're like in a dark forest or
something and all of a sudden, flashlights like shined on you.
And that's what it feels like for these animals because
his tongue reflects uv light. So any animal that can
see in that, it's like a really bright light that
flashes in their eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh that's not good though, right for predator. I mean
he's obviously predated on right.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Oh yeah, absolutely, So that's he's got some really nice
camouflage on him, So he's gonna be kind of going
through the leaves and stuff. Yeah, and he'll even almost
like move like a snake really, because a lot of
predators they see a fat snake there and they're like, oh, shoot, no,
I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You know. It's just this little guy with these stubby
little legs moving around.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, but his head does look very snakish. There's question
to get the pointed kind of snout there, and his
eyes are almost set snaky.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, that's a zoological term, right, snaky set snaky?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is it blue park?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Because I've heard that blue, the color blue in nature
is generally considered a dangerous color.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Oh absolutely, yeah, think of like poisoned dart frog exactly
like that.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, so that's why he has the blue tongue versus
a green or red tongue.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, that could be one of the reasons. Scientists actually
are not like quite positive as to why it might be.
So they're like still trying to figure out, Okay, is
it blue just because blue is danger Is it blue
for something else? Do they use it to communicate.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Something they eat? I mean, because we know that other
animals do get tinted by something. Isn't that the reason
the fleming is or the color they are?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah, for sure, Yeah, definitely. And for dart frogs, they
are poisonous because of the things that they eat. But
for reptar it's not really not really known, but there's
not a lot of grant and funding for specific niche
scientific projects like that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, interestingly, you know, we you bring in a lot
of reptiles and stuff, and you know, there are a
lot of different kind of lizard species or whatever. What
separates a skink from the rest of other species? What
makes that what gives it the name skink?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Boy, so skinks they are a type of lizard one
of the things that really a lot of skinks can
do is what we call caudal autotomy, and that's basically
he can drop his tail, so if he gets threatened
or anything, he's just gonna drop that and run for.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh really, Now does it grow back?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It will grow back. It grows back a little bit
differently a lot of times. So when they first have it,
it's bone, and then when it grows back, it's going
to grow back is like cartilage, So think like your ears. Wow,
So the structure is a lot different than what it
was originally.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So so it's a defense mechanism.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Absolutely, and they don't want to do it a lot
because imagine regrowing yeah, yeah, yeah, something my hair thing. Yeah,
it's wild.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I did it one time.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You can see grown back.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You can see it doesn't listen genetically. I guess I'm screwed.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I would imagine you guys have never had that kind
of sponsor at the Central Florida Zoo, But I mean
I would imagine that's got to be like an open
wound down them for for a while until it grows back.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
So I mean it's definitely something we definitely want to
avoid because that's more of a stress response, because it
would be something that's like, oh, it's my last resort,
I'm gonna get rid of this tail. But you can
tell you it's a very long tails. We've not had
that issue here. Repti is very chill. He knows that
we're not predators, so he's very used to being handled.
But it would definitely be something that we would cause
some concern. For sure, we'd have to really evaluate like, well,
(05:30):
how did that happen? Why, and then we'd have some
medical issues to deal with.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Herbivore omnivore.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He's an omnivore. He eats some pretty cool things though.
So his teeth are really stubby, so really short and yeah,
so he uses him to crush. Yeah, so he's gonna
be going out there picking up snails. Oh really, and
he's gonna be crushing those shells and kind of slurping.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Up the Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Really, how old is Repti?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
He is nine years old, so he's about middle aged
for a blue tongue skink. So they lived to about
twenty in human care, so he's got quite a few years.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When you say that name is a bit ambitious for
your animal there, what do you mean.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
He's like terrified.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Pokemon character Reptar.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Have you ever seen the rug rats?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No, it's a rug rats?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Okay, really I thought I was gonna be cool on that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's interesting.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
So after Pokemon, though.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What is there? Where are they from?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
So they're from New Guinea, which is kind of by
Australia in Indonesia, an island out there, and they're gonna
be found on different islands throughout it. So there's a
few different kinds of blue tongued skinks. So the New
Guinea blue tongued skink, which Reptar is, is endemic to
New Guinea. R Yes, so fun story for blue tongue
(06:48):
skinks when they're ready for babies. So the male is
actually gonna basically chase the female around, not another one,
and he's gonna keep chasing her until he finally catches
up to her and grabs onto her neck.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's gonna be from crabs onto.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
They're gonna do their thing.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And then about three months later, well, so far, I'm
getting a tattoo one of these things in my chest.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Three months later, she's gonna have about up to about
twenty five live coming out of her.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, after being chased and grabbed by the next Yeah right,
no dinner, no drinks.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Nothing, wow, twenty five And I mean they're they're super tiny,
right and do they automatically they're on their own? Like
they don't, they don't stick around like like other babies.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Are they maternal at all?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
So after it's after about a few months that the
babies will kind of go off on their own really wow,
which is not always the case with reptiles. So you
gotta think a lot of snakes they're gonna they around
their own. Yeah, yeah, luck but yeah, so as far
as we know, new guinea blue tongue skinks do take
care of their young for a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's cool, good luck.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So interestingly, do the babies feed themselves or does the
mom go out and find food like a bird's you know,
like a bait, like a mom bird or parental birds.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That is a good question. I've never actually seen a
mom one.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
So yeah, I don't know for sure. I imagine when
they're small though, they could.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Get like small answer sure, yeah, yeah, that are going.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
To be nearby, and I'm sure the mom will like
lead them to smaller things, but she's also preparing them
for after those couple of months to be on their own, so.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So you know, you got to kick them out eventually.
Eventually they can't just stick around. But we don't have
a lot of time left. But I definitely want to
let folks know about the preview of the Asian Lantern Festival.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I got an email earlier this week saying that the
artisans arrived in October and have started setting up some
of the lanterns.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
They are all over the zoo right now. So as
we were leaving, actually we had to wait for traffic
because they were setting up the entrance one, which is
pretty amazing. I don't know exactly what the entrance one's
going to be, just Yetcause they were still in the
very beginning process of it, but they have been putting
them up all over the zoo. And the lantern Fest
starts November fourteenth and it goes through January eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And the theme this year.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I don't know that we have like a very specific theme.
But there's themed area, so there's like underwater, there's a
holiday area. There's draggons and mystical things and unicorns I
saw which was amazing, a lot of animatronic ones, so
there's gonna be a lot of movement as well.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Take It's cool tickets on sale, Larady, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
So you can go online. They are about twenty seven
dollars and then there's tax. There's also a group package
where you can buy four of them and it's a
slightly lesser cost, but if you're going with the group,
then you know se if that's available.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And again, every time we come in and talk about
the Asian and Asian Lantern Festival ats into four to Zoo,
we say it's like one of the best places to
take your holiday photograph. So we know a lot of
families will go out there and they're like, you know,
they'll dress occasionally and they'll use that time to take
the photograph they're gonna put on their Christmas card for
the year, and this is the time to do it
right now in advance.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Of course, the first couple of nights it's always the best.
And of course when you get that nice light is
gone early, so you know by the time at six
o'clock it's dead dark. You can out there to enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And if you're looking for the most instagrammable photos that
you can possibly take. I was telling you before they
parlemal House started. Every corner you turn, you're like, there's
my Nope, gotta go around the next corner, because it's
just the artistry handpainted, right, they're all hand painted so beautiful.
You think lantern, You think you know what you're going
to experience. And then you get to the Central Florida
(10:06):
Zoo and again, kudos to you guys, because you treat
that like the busiest theme park in Central Florida. The
parking is tight, it's a guided tour, so you don't
have to guess.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Where you're going to go.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Actually I didn't either till we went last year. And
then you find that you don't get you don't miss
any part of it because you're guided to walk through
the whole night. Are the animals, Sometimes they're awakened, sometimes
they're not right, So some.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Animals might have access. It's going to depend on the weather.
So we were just talking before we walked in about
how cold are weather. Some of our animals are pulled
in for their safety and for health, so some of
them will have access outside. They might not be as
visible just because it's so dark, but you might be
able to hear some of the animals out.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And then on top of the Asian Lantern Festival, we
do have Veterans Day next week and you guys have
an event for that as well.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Absolutely so. We definitely appreciate everyone who has served in
the past and is currently serving. But from November eighth
through eleventh, active and veterans have free access to the zoo.
And then there's also BOGA for family members.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
That is that is awesome anytime you can save money
right and get benefits as a veteran for sure. And
then you also did something new real quick. You have
a new fall program. Normally you do like summer program,
summer school or summer summer camp, but now you've got
something in fall.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Yeah. So it's going to be the first year that
we're doing a fall break camp and it's going to
be ages six to twelve. And it's November twenty fourth
through the twenty six Did.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You hear that parents, Yeah, over the Thanksgiving holiday exactly,
a fall break.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Kids out to the zoo and do something fun on
your days off. You don't have to tolerate of being
around all the time.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Oh my god, spoken like a true parent. Yeah, where
do folks go to get more information on that?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And during the fall thing do they have to pick
the kids up?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Horribly?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
I think there's extra charge?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah really, Okay, that's worth it.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
The Central Florida Zoo dot org is where you can
find all that information.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Okay, great, I'll be sure to post all of this
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I want to add an activity to your to the
fun listed Knucklehead Island. Aw about walking them twenty five
yards over a pile of broken glass barefoot, and they
can soak their feet in salted water with lime juice.
(00:27):
The things that people will do for attention.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Heloha, helloha, heloha, mad I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I do too.
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Let's do it, do it.
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Speaker 4 (01:17):
As always, Animal House is generously brought to you each
and every week by personal injury attorney Glenn Clausman over
at Klosman Law. We'll tell you how you can get
in touch with Glenn at the end of Animal House.
But now please join me in welcoming back Senior Ambassador
Animal Keeper Christina O'Donnell and team lead zoo teacher Josh Brandall.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's a big breath.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That is a big breath. Thank you very much. How
you guys doing great?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
How have you been.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Goohead, fat and sassy? You have not been here since
last December?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Right, Yeah, it's been a minute, but lots hus been
going on at the zoo. So we are excited.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I know, I love the enthusiasm.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Because returs is so you know, I mean, we had
to bounce it out.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It is so this is reptile. What is repti again?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
So repti here? He is a blue tongued skink. Me too,
So you're not gonna show it off. But he has
this nice bright blue tongue on him, really, and he
is gonna show it off if he gets scared or
anything to kind of scare off predators.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
So imagine like you're like in a dark forest or
something and all of a sudden, flashlights like shined on you.
And that's what it feels like for these animals because
his tongue reflects uv light. So any animal that can
see in that, it's like a really bright light that
flashes in their eyes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh that's not good though, right for predator. I mean
he's obviously predated on right.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Oh yeah, absolutely, So that's he's got some really nice
camouflage on him, So he's gonna be kind of going
through the leaves and stuff. Yeah, and he'll even almost
like move like a snake really, because a lot of
predators they see a fat snake there and they're like, oh, shoot, no,
I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You know. It's just this little guy with these stubby
little legs moving around.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Yeah, but his head does look very snakish. There's question
to get the pointed kind of snout there, and his
eyes are almost set snaky.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, that's a zoological term, right, snaky set snaky?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is it blue park?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Because I've heard that blue, the color blue in nature
is generally considered a dangerous color.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Oh absolutely, yeah, think of like poisoned dart frog exactly
like that.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, so that's why he has the blue tongue versus
a green or red tongue.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, that could be one of the reasons. Scientists actually
are not like quite positive as to why it might be.
So they're like still trying to figure out, Okay, is
it blue just because blue is danger Is it blue
for something else? Do they use it to communicate.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Something they eat? I mean, because we know that other
animals do get tinted by something. Isn't that the reason
the fleming is or the color they are?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah, for sure, Yeah, definitely. And for dart frogs, they
are poisonous because of the things that they eat. But
for reptar it's not really not really known, but there's
not a lot of grant and funding for specific niche
scientific projects like that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, interestingly, you know, we you bring in a lot
of reptiles and stuff, and you know, there are a
lot of different kind of lizard species or whatever. What
separates a skink from the rest of other species? What
makes that what gives it the name skink?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Boy, so skinks they are a type of lizard one
of the things that really a lot of skinks can
do is what we call caudal autotomy, and that's basically
he can drop his tail, so if he gets threatened
or anything, he's just gonna drop that and run for.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Oh really, Now does it grow back?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It will grow back. It grows back a little bit
differently a lot of times. So when they first have it,
it's bone, and then when it grows back, it's going
to grow back is like cartilage, So think like your ears. Wow,
So the structure is a lot different than what it
was originally.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
So so it's a defense mechanism.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Absolutely, and they don't want to do it a lot
because imagine regrowing yeah, yeah, yeah, something my hair thing. Yeah,
it's wild.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I did it one time.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You can see grown back.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You can see it doesn't listen genetically. I guess I'm screwed.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
I would imagine you guys have never had that kind
of sponsor at the Central Florida Zoo, But I mean
I would imagine that's got to be like an open
wound down them for for a while until it grows back.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
So I mean it's definitely something we definitely want to
avoid because that's more of a stress response, because it
would be something that's like, oh, it's my last resort,
I'm gonna get rid of this tail. But you can
tell you it's a very long tails. We've not had
that issue here. Repti is very chill. He knows that
we're not predators, so he's very used to being handled.
But it would definitely be something that we would cause
some concern. For sure, we'd have to really evaluate like, well,
(05:30):
how did that happen? Why, and then we'd have some
medical issues to deal with.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Herbivore omnivore.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He's an omnivore. He eats some pretty cool things though.
So his teeth are really stubby, so really short and yeah,
so he uses him to crush. Yeah, so he's gonna
be going out there picking up snails. Oh really, and
he's gonna be crushing those shells and kind of slurping.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Up the Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Really, how old is Repti?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
He is nine years old, so he's about middle aged
for a blue tongue skink. So they lived to about
twenty in human care, so he's got quite a few years.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
When you say that name is a bit ambitious for
your animal there, what do you mean.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
He's like terrified.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Pokemon character Reptar.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Have you ever seen the rug rats?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
No, it's a rug rats?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Okay, really I thought I was gonna be cool on that.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's interesting.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
So after Pokemon, though.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What is there? Where are they from?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
So they're from New Guinea, which is kind of by
Australia in Indonesia, an island out there, and they're gonna
be found on different islands throughout it. So there's a
few different kinds of blue tongued skinks. So the New
Guinea blue tongued skink, which Reptar is, is endemic to
New Guinea. R Yes, so fun story for blue tongue
(06:48):
skinks when they're ready for babies. So the male is
actually gonna basically chase the female around, not another one,
and he's gonna keep chasing her until he finally catches
up to her and grabs onto her neck.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's gonna be from crabs onto.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
They're gonna do their thing.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And then about three months later, well, so far, I'm
getting a tattoo one of these things in my chest.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Three months later, she's gonna have about up to about
twenty five live coming out of her.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yeah, after being chased and grabbed by the next Yeah right,
no dinner, no drinks.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Nothing, wow, twenty five And I mean they're they're super tiny,
right and do they automatically they're on their own? Like
they don't, they don't stick around like like other babies.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Are they maternal at all?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
So after it's after about a few months that the
babies will kind of go off on their own really wow,
which is not always the case with reptiles. So you
gotta think a lot of snakes they're gonna they around
their own. Yeah, yeah, luck but yeah, so as far
as we know, new guinea blue tongue skinks do take
care of their young for a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's cool, good luck.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So interestingly, do the babies feed themselves or does the
mom go out and find food like a bird's you know,
like a bait, like a mom bird or parental birds.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That is a good question. I've never actually seen a
mom one.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
So yeah, I don't know for sure. I imagine when
they're small though, they could.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Get like small answer sure, yeah, yeah, that are going.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
To be nearby, and I'm sure the mom will like
lead them to smaller things, but she's also preparing them
for after those couple of months to be on their own, so.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So you know, you got to kick them out eventually.
Eventually they can't just stick around. But we don't have
a lot of time left. But I definitely want to
let folks know about the preview of the Asian Lantern Festival.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I got an email earlier this week saying that the
artisans arrived in October and have started setting up some
of the lanterns.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
They are all over the zoo right now. So as
we were leaving, actually we had to wait for traffic
because they were setting up the entrance one, which is
pretty amazing. I don't know exactly what the entrance one's
going to be, just Yetcause they were still in the
very beginning process of it, but they have been putting
them up all over the zoo. And the lantern Fest
starts November fourteenth and it goes through January eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
And the theme this year.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I don't know that we have like a very specific theme.
But there's themed area, so there's like underwater, there's a
holiday area. There's draggons and mystical things and unicorns I
saw which was amazing, a lot of animatronic ones, so
there's gonna be a lot of movement as well.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Take It's cool tickets on sale, Larady, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
So you can go online. They are about twenty seven
dollars and then there's tax. There's also a group package
where you can buy four of them and it's a
slightly lesser cost, but if you're going with the group,
then you know se if that's available.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And again, every time we come in and talk about
the Asian and Asian Lantern Festival ats into four to Zoo,
we say it's like one of the best places to
take your holiday photograph. So we know a lot of
families will go out there and they're like, you know,
they'll dress occasionally and they'll use that time to take
the photograph they're gonna put on their Christmas card for
the year, and this is the time to do it
right now in advance.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Of course, the first couple of nights it's always the best.
And of course when you get that nice light is
gone early, so you know by the time at six
o'clock it's dead dark. You can out there to enjoy yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And if you're looking for the most instagrammable photos that
you can possibly take. I was telling you before they
parlemal House started. Every corner you turn, you're like, there's
my Nope, gotta go around the next corner, because it's
just the artistry handpainted, right, they're all hand painted so beautiful.
You think lantern, You think you know what you're going
to experience. And then you get to the Central Florida
(10:06):
Zoo and again, kudos to you guys, because you treat
that like the busiest theme park in Central Florida. The
parking is tight, it's a guided tour, so you don't
have to guess.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Where you're going to go.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I did not know that.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Actually I didn't either till we went last year. And
then you find that you don't get you don't miss
any part of it because you're guided to walk through
the whole night. Are the animals, Sometimes they're awakened, sometimes
they're not right, So some.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Animals might have access. It's going to depend on the weather.
So we were just talking before we walked in about
how cold are weather. Some of our animals are pulled
in for their safety and for health, so some of
them will have access outside. They might not be as
visible just because it's so dark, but you might be
able to hear some of the animals out.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
And then on top of the Asian Lantern Festival, we
do have Veterans Day next week and you guys have
an event for that as well.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Absolutely so. We definitely appreciate everyone who has served in
the past and is currently serving. But from November eighth
through eleventh, active and veterans have free access to the zoo.
And then there's also BOGA for family members.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
That is that is awesome anytime you can save money
right and get benefits as a veteran for sure. And
then you also did something new real quick. You have
a new fall program. Normally you do like summer program,
summer school or summer summer camp, but now you've got
something in fall.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Yeah. So it's going to be the first year that
we're doing a fall break camp and it's going to
be ages six to twelve. And it's November twenty fourth
through the twenty six Did.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You hear that parents, Yeah, over the Thanksgiving holiday exactly,
a fall break.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Kids out to the zoo and do something fun on
your days off. You don't have to tolerate of being
around all the time.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Oh my god, spoken like a true parent. Yeah, where
do folks go to get more information on that?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
And during the fall thing do they have to pick
the kids up?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Horribly?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
I think there's extra charge?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah really, Okay, that's worth it.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
The Central Florida Zoo dot org is where you can
find all that information.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Okay, great, I'll be sure to post all of this
information in the Animal House podcast in just a couple
of minutes. But put your hands together and thank Christina,
Josh and repped Off, thank you, Thank you guys so
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