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Oh good, we are going to play bumpers...
Please, be a good Mom and throw the bumper....
O.K. woman, put down the @#$^^@! camera and throw the damn bumper or your kneecaps are toast, and I mean it!
My inner mom was yelling at these people: "Don't walk there, you're gonna fall in and FREEZE TO DEATH!!"
We encourage the animals to do behaviors they would naturally do in the wild. Here Zoo Keeper Alisha is training king vulture Pip to fly from her glove to another keeper's glove. This allows him to stay active and stretch out his wings.
...from both the diver and the shark. A diver removes their regulator to blow bubbles on the chest of a shark at the Tarpon Springs Aquarium.
Pictures of the Winter in July event at the Phoenix Zoo. This annual event includes snow trucked in for the event, a chilly 'blizzard' every 30 minutes, and snow themed events with the animals. There were four different animal events that featured behavioral enrichment, a process of ensuring captive animals in zoos are treated for psychological and physiological well-being. I will list all the events separately. I learned on their site that they were looking for volunteers. So I was on their website to learn about the event when I learned that they needed volunteers! So I signed up as a photographer and snow shoveler. I was part of a crew of volunteers who broke up the snow so the kids could play with it. It has a hard ice crust the moment we arrived and had to continually work the snow to make it fun to play with. Very glad to spend the day at the Zoo helping them pull off this event. Here are pictures of the very popular elephant shower that is one of the highlights of this annual event (from what I understand). Reba is an Asian Elephant who is around 45 years old. She is sprayed with the fire hose. When they were done, they showered the audience and my camera bag got soaked! Oh well - all is fine. Thanks to the Phoenix Fire Department for supplying the firehose!
January 16, 2013 - "Deciding by Default: Lessons in Behavioral Economics" Penn Program on Regulation recently held a Risk Regulation Seminar on legal regulation based on behavioral economics led by Harvard Law professor, Cass Sunstein. Professor Sunstein described the issue with defaulting rules in business contracts, such as insurance plans, phone bills, loans, etc. He talked about the impact of impersonal one-size-fits-all rules for defaulting as well as the pros and cons of more personalized plans where customers can select their own rules for defaulting. Sunstein gives this latter option as a potential choice for future consumers in this new age of individuality and personalization. Professor Sunstein is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and served as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Sunstein has also been an administrator at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Professor Sunstein also served as the keynote speaker at the second Annual Regulation Dinner for the Penn Program on Regulation.