December 17, 2025 • 13 mins
Senior Ambassador Animal Keeper, Christina O'Donnel, and Zoo Teacher, Emily Geist, bring along Roberta the red-footed tortoise. They share some fascinating details about the species, before talking about the Asian Lantern Festival, upcoming camps for kids, Brews at the Zoo this year will be two days instead of one, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back to the Jim Colbert Show, Real Radio one
four point one. Thanks so much for tuning in today.
We appreciate that guys, a lot of choices out there,
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Jim.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
There's deb Jack is here as well. Let's do Animal House.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
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time for Animal House.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
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each and every week by personal injury attorney Glenn Clausman.
We'll talk to Santa Clausman on Thursday and how you
can get in touch with Glenn at the end of
the segment. But now please join me in welcoming back
some of our regular guest Senior Ambassador, Animal Keeper Christina
O'Donnell and zoo teacher Emily.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hey, it's good to see you guys too. So what
animal friend did you bring us today?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So here we have Roberta. She is a red footed tortoise.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
So these guys are from South America, generally found on
the outskirts of rainforest, so more humid savannah type areas
are where they like to be.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Walking around.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How old is she?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
She's thirty one years old.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Thirty one, that's still fairly young for her.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah, they can live up to fifty plus years, so.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh wow, really wow.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So are they relative at all to the Galapagos or.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I mean distantly, but yeah, I mean they have a
pretty long lifespan out in the wild. We don't know
actually a whole lot about all the longevity of certain
tortoises because nobody's really followed from Bertlamic funding.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Everyone's up dying counting exactly how long.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Have you guys had Roberta she was actually born at
the zoo.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Really wow? Wow? Her only life has been known in.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Captivity, Well, yeah, under human care at our zoo for sure,
and she's had a wonderful life being and.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
A mestamery at home that I love that you say
in captivity under human care, I mean for to sound
the farious.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well to be Pharaoh was also going to say, none
of our animals really came from the wild. A lot
of them, the Florida natives might have been rehabbed, but
most of the animals from out of the country were
all born and other institutions are at the zoom.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So her shell By the way, if you go to
Jim cort Live dot com right now, you can actually
see her or Real Radio dot FM slash watch. She
is featured right here on our shot. You can see her.
She's taller. Like when you see tortoises or turtles or
any of these you know, this type of animal, they're
a little bit more flat. Of course, the ones that
go in the water are really flat for to be
able to streamline and as they swim. Is there a
(02:36):
reason why her shell is so tall, because I would
think that she's like eight inches taller or so.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, so she out where they live. They're going to
live under some foliage from the forest floor and things
like that. So one of her best protections actually is
kind of just crawl in and look like a rock.
Yeah yeah, yeah, So a lot of predators and things
like that are just going to walk right by thinking
she's a rock as long as she's not really moving.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Wow. And again, a lot of people think that the
shell of a tortoise or a turtle is their home,
when in reality it's it is part of them. There
is no surviving without the shell, correct r Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They actually it's sensitive to heat and cold, is it
not like if you touch your shell, it'd be like
you touching somebody's back.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Right, she can feel it.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
There's a layer of keratin on the outside, which is
the same thing that your hair and nails are made
out of.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
So just like how you can feel if.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Something's touching your fingernail or kind of like touching the
top of your head, they do have nerves in there.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
They can feel it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I mean she's pretty docile.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Some of the turtles or tortoises that you guys bring
in are a little more active.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Is it because of the weather or is she just
naturally docile?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So part of it is the weather, because she is
more native to tropical and we're humid areas. She doesn't
really care for this cold. I mean, she came to
Florida for a reason, but she was hunker down in
her hay.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So we give her.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Hay and some insulation and things like that that she
hunkers down in. But they have slower metabolism, so reptiles
slow down when it gets colder, so they won't eat
as much, and their bodies just aren't, you know, metabolically
active as much.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So it's like a hibernation kind of thing. In the
in the winter, or I think it's cooler.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
So she won't go fully into hibernation.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
But they definitely kind of slowed down to the point
where they aren't eating. They don't have to eat because
their body's just not expending that energy, so they can
go very long or a long time without fo Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I wish I could adopt that, just because I don't
need to eat as much. It doesn't apply though, So
I know this is a very very very busy time
for you guys at the Central Florida Zoo because once
again you had the Asian Lantern Festival, and Emily you
were saying, this year you think it's top to them all.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, I to be fair, have only worked at the
Zoo for the last two of them. But this year,
if you were there last year, I think it's better
than it was last year. And the themes this year
are under the sea and mythical creature, so lots of
really really cool lanterns going around.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You nerd that a little bit, ad a little bit.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It is cool.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I was there last year with you had a
huge dragon and some other really great creatures. But I
know everyone at the zoo was really excited about this
year's theme and how the crowd's been.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
They've been pretty good.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We just like last year, have been selling out a
lot on the weekend. Especially as we get closer to
the holidays, more and more days are selling out. So
if you're looking for tickets, you can go to Central
Florida Zoo dot org. We always recommend buying early because
sometimes you do show up trying to get tickets and we're.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Like, we know, have anymore we can, We don't have
any more space.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Have you Have you been yet? No?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I haven't men yet.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh it's crazy. Well, first of all, it's a it's
a guided walking tour, so you're not left to wonder like,
well what's next? Right, They kind of steer you along
so you get to see all of the lanterns. But
what really impressed me was the way you guys handle
that parking lot. You're like over there, over there, over there,
you think like, well, wait a minute, am I a
theme park? Because I mean you have the crowds that
(05:36):
are rolling in there each and every night.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And I'll tell you the one thing about it that
the great thing about the zoo, it's it's basically out
in the middle of nowhere kind of it's not far
off of the main road.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But how it's out.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Is there's no lightwash right right, there are no there
are no street lights or anything that washed the light out.
So when you get out there for the lantern fest,
it really is. It's kind of crazy because of course
they're bright, but when you see them with that ultimate
contrast of like no light taking away from the shine,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
How defined the.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Colors are much they Yeah, yeah, the one year, the
first year I went, just walking up to it was
a mind blowing because you just can't you can't really
fathom how bright it is and how the colors are
really really, you know, just super bright and very defined.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And for those people who think you're looking at a lantern,
like a lantern you'd put up in the sky or whatever,
these are, they're hand painted silk, right.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, they are completely handmade. We have a third company
called Tianyu who comes out puts them all together for us.
Our facilities team does help put them out in the zoo,
but they start putting them out in October and then
we open in mid November, so it takes a while
to get them all out there, very bright color, is
very big lanterns.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
It's crazy. I don't know how they do.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It exactly, and that's why they make such great photo
ops for your holiday cards, for you know, any of
your social media posts. But that's not all that's going
on at the Central Florida Zoo. I know you guys
have another announcement for another popular event.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yes, we do have some camps coming up, so I'll
start with those. So our President's Day Camp and Martin
Luther Luther King Junior Day Camp are coming up. But
the popular event is of course Bruis at the Zoo.
So this year it's going to be in February, and
we have two days of it, so February twenty first
and twenty seconds, so a full weekend to enjoy Bruise
(07:18):
at the Zoo this year.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That popular, huh. At the day Yeah, it's going to
be in the daytimes yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
So yeah, So Saturday is the afternoon, just like how
we've done the last few years Sundays, I believe it
starts at eleven am.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Day drinking baby, yeah, day drinking animals, nap time exactly.
And for the camps, what kind of ages are you
looking at?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, so we do.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
It's from ages the present day camper from ages six
to twelve, so a wide variety of ages. They all
get to come in, they all learn about animals, get
to meet some animal ambassadors, and tour around the zoo,
do lots of fun nature based activities and things.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So for spring break parents have an option out.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There absolutely spring break one.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Do the kids still kind of gravitate towards the serbatarium
the is that still the number one thing for the
kids because of the the nature of them and how
you're supposed to be a little scared of snakes and
stuff and there's that barrier or is it something else
now there is?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
You have your select kids who love going into the herpetarium,
love learning about the snakes and the lizards and things.
But I feel like some of the more popular animals
are like we have like the rabbits and guinea pigs
lab they love those are the birds have been very popular.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Weak generation look at.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
And they'll find a squirrel and they're fascinated and you're
just like rhino, right, there are rhino all the time.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But there's a squirrel on the fence. Yeah, there's a
four thousand pounds rhino in front.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Of and speaking of the rhino, just pardon me if
I'm behind.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Is it still here because it wasn't there a shipping
issue where it was supposed to go up north but
something happened.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Is the rhino still with us?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We do still have PJ.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
He was a little bit too big for his kennel
going up to New York, so he's going to Buffalo
and then they so we needed to get a different kennel,
and then they decided to wait until after wintertime. He's
used to Florida, so going up to New York winter
might be a little bit of a big change.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So be like, who did I piss off.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
In the spring?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Good, so then we can have another going away party
for PJ.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Love it.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Did anyone consider like putting him on a diet so
you could use the kennel you already had.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
To be fair greater?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
One horned rhinos are the second largest rhinos, right after
white rhinos.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So maybe it's just his species.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'm going to use that.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm trying to save a little money here. What did
they eat?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
They're herbivores, so he eats plants. Yeah, A lot of
people think that the horn is used for like fighting
or hunting. It's used for digging up roots and digging
in the mud.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Is it really would have never known that? I thought
for sure? Defense, Yeah, I'll be damn.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
He eats a ton of hay and a ton of brows,
a ton of produce. He also gets like rhino chow.
There's like specified. Yeah, child, that's made so that he
gets all the vitamins and supplements that he could possibly
need that he's not getting from just hay and browse alone.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Wow, that's so crazy. How much?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Hey, but that must that damn thing eat in a day?
So how does he get up to Buffalo? Is it
a truck train?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
What do they do? Skates?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
So he's in a specialized crate. And then there are
special carriers that are responsible for transporting animals across state
lines and things like that, and so they know things
to look for make sure that the animal is healthy
and safe. They do visual checks, you know, every couple
of hours and things like that. But it's a very
nice small pool of truckers.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
It could be you could be driving down in the
South Caroline. The next question, you're passing a truck and
you don't know there could be a rhino inside that truck.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It could be next to you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So it's not open because we need transper horses. I mean,
horses have those horse reradillers have those slots where Eric
can get in there and they can see out. When
rhinos are transported, there's no open it's all closed in the.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Kennel that he has. I've seen it, but kind of
behind the scenes. It looks kind of like a horse
trailer where it's got the little windows up so there
is air movement and he can kind of like.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Could you imagine what's going on?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Could you imagine like being just passing this truck and
look own there's a gd rhino lookinggagine.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
All I want to know is where I need to
go to get that CDL that says I can transport
a righteou real quick. I wanted to let you know.
Folks have been texting us at seven seven zero three
one agree. Lantern Festival? Is it even better this year?
This year the lanterns look more detailed. Awesome. We loved
it this year. Another person said it was the third
year in a row, So congratulations for an uber sex
(11:42):
full successful event. Yeah, easy, careful people are from MISZOOI exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, every year they change the thing so that way
you can come out and have a new experience.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Every time.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
They have a holiday section for those cards that you
were talking about. So yeah, it's always something new every year.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And where is the website again for folks to go
and get tickets. It's not just for the Asian Lantern Festival.
To get more information about brews around the zoo, and
of course your camps for kids.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Yes, Central Florida Zoo dot org has all the information
you could possibly need about any of our events and things.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Christina, Emily and Roberta the Red footed tourtist Joy, thank.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You great here, guys. We will see you get into
the beginning of the year. Great year. You guys do
a wonderful job. Thanks for this wonderful partnership.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Real, thank you for having us, Thank you for the partner.
We love coming out here.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well cool, We love that you love coming out here.
Look forward to having you again in twenty twenty six.
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Thanks for picking us. If you like the show, spread
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm Jim.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
There's deb Jack is here as well. Let's do Animal House.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
She likes them fuzzy, furry, feathery, tough and scaly. It's
time for Animal House.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
With Roberts and Animal House is generously brought to us
each and every week by personal injury attorney Glenn Clausman.
We'll talk to Santa Clausman on Thursday and how you
can get in touch with Glenn at the end of
the segment. But now please join me in welcoming back
some of our regular guest Senior Ambassador, Animal Keeper Christina
O'Donnell and zoo teacher Emily.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hey, it's good to see you guys too. So what
animal friend did you bring us today?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So here we have Roberta. She is a red footed tortoise.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
So these guys are from South America, generally found on
the outskirts of rainforest, so more humid savannah type areas
are where they like to be.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Walking around.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
How old is she?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
She's thirty one years old.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Thirty one, that's still fairly young for her.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Yeah, they can live up to fifty plus years, so.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh wow, really wow.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So are they relative at all to the Galapagos or.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I mean distantly, but yeah, I mean they have a
pretty long lifespan out in the wild. We don't know
actually a whole lot about all the longevity of certain
tortoises because nobody's really followed from Bertlamic funding.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Everyone's up dying counting exactly how long.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Have you guys had Roberta she was actually born at
the zoo.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Really wow? Wow? Her only life has been known in.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Captivity, Well, yeah, under human care at our zoo for sure,
and she's had a wonderful life being and.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
A mestamery at home that I love that you say
in captivity under human care, I mean for to sound
the farious.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Well to be Pharaoh was also going to say, none
of our animals really came from the wild. A lot
of them, the Florida natives might have been rehabbed, but
most of the animals from out of the country were
all born and other institutions are at the zoom.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So her shell By the way, if you go to
Jim cort Live dot com right now, you can actually
see her or Real Radio dot FM slash watch. She
is featured right here on our shot. You can see her.
She's taller. Like when you see tortoises or turtles or
any of these you know, this type of animal, they're
a little bit more flat. Of course, the ones that
go in the water are really flat for to be
able to streamline and as they swim. Is there a
(02:36):
reason why her shell is so tall, because I would
think that she's like eight inches taller or so.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, so she out where they live. They're going to
live under some foliage from the forest floor and things
like that. So one of her best protections actually is
kind of just crawl in and look like a rock.
Yeah yeah, yeah, So a lot of predators and things
like that are just going to walk right by thinking
she's a rock as long as she's not really moving.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Wow. And again, a lot of people think that the
shell of a tortoise or a turtle is their home,
when in reality it's it is part of them. There
is no surviving without the shell, correct r Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They actually it's sensitive to heat and cold, is it
not like if you touch your shell, it'd be like
you touching somebody's back.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Right, she can feel it.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
There's a layer of keratin on the outside, which is
the same thing that your hair and nails are made
out of.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
So just like how you can feel if.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Something's touching your fingernail or kind of like touching the
top of your head, they do have nerves in there.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
They can feel it.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, I mean she's pretty docile.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Some of the turtles or tortoises that you guys bring
in are a little more active.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Is it because of the weather or is she just
naturally docile?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So part of it is the weather, because she is
more native to tropical and we're humid areas. She doesn't
really care for this cold. I mean, she came to
Florida for a reason, but she was hunker down in
her hay.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So we give her.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Hay and some insulation and things like that that she
hunkers down in. But they have slower metabolism, so reptiles
slow down when it gets colder, so they won't eat
as much, and their bodies just aren't, you know, metabolically
active as much.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So it's like a hibernation kind of thing. In the
in the winter, or I think it's cooler.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
So she won't go fully into hibernation.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
But they definitely kind of slowed down to the point
where they aren't eating. They don't have to eat because
their body's just not expending that energy, so they can
go very long or a long time without fo Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I wish I could adopt that, just because I don't
need to eat as much. It doesn't apply though, So
I know this is a very very very busy time
for you guys at the Central Florida Zoo because once
again you had the Asian Lantern Festival, and Emily you
were saying, this year you think it's top to them all.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, I to be fair, have only worked at the
Zoo for the last two of them. But this year,
if you were there last year, I think it's better
than it was last year. And the themes this year
are under the sea and mythical creature, so lots of
really really cool lanterns going around.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You nerd that a little bit, ad a little bit.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
It is cool.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And I was there last year with you had a
huge dragon and some other really great creatures. But I
know everyone at the zoo was really excited about this
year's theme and how the crowd's been.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
They've been pretty good.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
We just like last year, have been selling out a
lot on the weekend. Especially as we get closer to
the holidays, more and more days are selling out. So
if you're looking for tickets, you can go to Central
Florida Zoo dot org. We always recommend buying early because
sometimes you do show up trying to get tickets and we're.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Like, we know, have anymore we can, We don't have
any more space.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Have you Have you been yet? No?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I haven't men yet.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh it's crazy. Well, first of all, it's a it's
a guided walking tour, so you're not left to wonder like,
well what's next? Right, They kind of steer you along
so you get to see all of the lanterns. But
what really impressed me was the way you guys handle
that parking lot. You're like over there, over there, over there,
you think like, well, wait a minute, am I a
theme park? Because I mean you have the crowds that
(05:36):
are rolling in there each and every night.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And I'll tell you the one thing about it that
the great thing about the zoo, it's it's basically out
in the middle of nowhere kind of it's not far
off of the main road.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
But how it's out.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Is there's no lightwash right right, there are no there
are no street lights or anything that washed the light out.
So when you get out there for the lantern fest,
it really is. It's kind of crazy because of course
they're bright, but when you see them with that ultimate
contrast of like no light taking away from the shine,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
How defined the.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Colors are much they Yeah, yeah, the one year, the
first year I went, just walking up to it was
a mind blowing because you just can't you can't really
fathom how bright it is and how the colors are
really really, you know, just super bright and very defined.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And for those people who think you're looking at a lantern,
like a lantern you'd put up in the sky or whatever,
these are, they're hand painted silk, right.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Yeah, they are completely handmade. We have a third company
called Tianyu who comes out puts them all together for us.
Our facilities team does help put them out in the zoo,
but they start putting them out in October and then
we open in mid November, so it takes a while
to get them all out there, very bright color, is
very big lanterns.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
It's crazy. I don't know how they do.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It exactly, and that's why they make such great photo
ops for your holiday cards, for you know, any of
your social media posts. But that's not all that's going
on at the Central Florida Zoo. I know you guys
have another announcement for another popular event.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yes, we do have some camps coming up, so I'll
start with those. So our President's Day Camp and Martin
Luther Luther King Junior Day Camp are coming up. But
the popular event is of course Bruis at the Zoo.
So this year it's going to be in February, and
we have two days of it, so February twenty first
and twenty seconds, so a full weekend to enjoy Bruise
(07:18):
at the Zoo this year.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That popular, huh. At the day Yeah, it's going to
be in the daytimes yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
So yeah, So Saturday is the afternoon, just like how
we've done the last few years Sundays, I believe it
starts at eleven am.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Day drinking baby, yeah, day drinking animals, nap time exactly.
And for the camps, what kind of ages are you
looking at?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah, so we do.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
It's from ages the present day camper from ages six
to twelve, so a wide variety of ages. They all
get to come in, they all learn about animals, get
to meet some animal ambassadors, and tour around the zoo,
do lots of fun nature based activities and things.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So for spring break parents have an option out.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There absolutely spring break one.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Do the kids still kind of gravitate towards the serbatarium
the is that still the number one thing for the
kids because of the the nature of them and how
you're supposed to be a little scared of snakes and
stuff and there's that barrier or is it something else
now there is?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
You have your select kids who love going into the herpetarium,
love learning about the snakes and the lizards and things.
But I feel like some of the more popular animals
are like we have like the rabbits and guinea pigs
lab they love those are the birds have been very popular.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Weak generation look at.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
And they'll find a squirrel and they're fascinated and you're
just like rhino, right, there are rhino all the time.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But there's a squirrel on the fence. Yeah, there's a
four thousand pounds rhino in front.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Of and speaking of the rhino, just pardon me if
I'm behind.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Is it still here because it wasn't there a shipping
issue where it was supposed to go up north but
something happened.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Is the rhino still with us?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We do still have PJ.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
He was a little bit too big for his kennel
going up to New York, so he's going to Buffalo
and then they so we needed to get a different kennel,
and then they decided to wait until after wintertime. He's
used to Florida, so going up to New York winter
might be a little bit of a big change.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So be like, who did I piss off.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
In the spring?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Good, so then we can have another going away party
for PJ.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Love it.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Did anyone consider like putting him on a diet so
you could use the kennel you already had.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
To be fair greater?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
One horned rhinos are the second largest rhinos, right after
white rhinos.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So maybe it's just his species.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'm going to use that.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I'm trying to save a little money here. What did
they eat?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
They're herbivores, so he eats plants. Yeah, A lot of
people think that the horn is used for like fighting
or hunting. It's used for digging up roots and digging
in the mud.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Is it really would have never known that? I thought
for sure? Defense, Yeah, I'll be damn.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
He eats a ton of hay and a ton of brows,
a ton of produce. He also gets like rhino chow.
There's like specified. Yeah, child, that's made so that he
gets all the vitamins and supplements that he could possibly
need that he's not getting from just hay and browse alone.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Wow, that's so crazy. How much?
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Hey, but that must that damn thing eat in a day?
So how does he get up to Buffalo? Is it
a truck train?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
What do they do? Skates?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:25):
So he's in a specialized crate. And then there are
special carriers that are responsible for transporting animals across state
lines and things like that, and so they know things
to look for make sure that the animal is healthy
and safe. They do visual checks, you know, every couple
of hours and things like that. But it's a very
nice small pool of truckers.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
It could be you could be driving down in the
South Caroline. The next question, you're passing a truck and
you don't know there could be a rhino inside that truck.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It could be next to you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
So it's not open because we need transper horses. I mean,
horses have those horse reradillers have those slots where Eric
can get in there and they can see out. When
rhinos are transported, there's no open it's all closed in the.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Kennel that he has. I've seen it, but kind of
behind the scenes. It looks kind of like a horse
trailer where it's got the little windows up so there
is air movement and he can kind of like.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Could you imagine what's going on?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Could you imagine like being just passing this truck and
look own there's a gd rhino lookinggagine.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
All I want to know is where I need to
go to get that CDL that says I can transport
a righteou real quick. I wanted to let you know.
Folks have been texting us at seven seven zero three
one agree. Lantern Festival? Is it even better this year?
This year the lanterns look more detailed. Awesome. We loved
it this year. Another person said it was the third
year in a row, So congratulations for an uber sex
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full successful event. Yeah, easy, careful people are from MISZOOI exactly.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Yeah, every year they change the thing so that way
you can come out and have a new experience.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Every time.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
They have a holiday section for those cards that you
were talking about. So yeah, it's always something new every year.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And where is the website again for folks to go
and get tickets. It's not just for the Asian Lantern Festival.
To get more information about brews around the zoo, and
of course your camps for kids.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Yes, Central Florida Zoo dot org has all the information
you could possibly need about any of our events and things.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Christina, Emily and Roberta the Red footed tourtist Joy, thank.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You great here, guys. We will see you get into
the beginning of the year. Great year. You guys do
a wonderful job. Thanks for this wonderful partnership.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Real, thank you for having us, Thank you for the partner.
We love coming out here.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well cool, We love that you love coming out here.
Look forward to having you again in twenty twenty six.
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