Sunday, February 7, 2010

Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo partners with Pensacola college to train future keepers | Breaking News from the Press-Register - al.com

Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo partners with Pensacola college to train future keepers | Breaking News from the Press-Register - al.com: "GULF SHORES, Ala. -- On a recent day a group of Pensacola Junior College students gathered around a table for the day's lesson: how to castrate and remove the antlers from a white-tailed deer.

As a pair of tigers tussled and growled in the background, participants in the school's zoo animal technology program watched as a local veterinarian performed the procedures on the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo's recently acquired buck."