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June 1, 2007
Activity has picked up quite a bit at the aquarium. I've been doing food prep every single morning that I come in, so I feel like I'm mastering everything that needs to be done in there. I have taught a number of other volunteers and interns how to do the music for dolphin presentations, so I'm not the only one doing it anymore. This is nice since it frees me up to help out during presentations with other tasks that the trainers come up with. I've been working the gates for the dolphin pools any time they need the help, the protocol is pretty standard for that. I got to help out with a painting behavior with Indy down on the platform during a presentation last week and I was able to take the painting home with me as a courtesy, since I'm an intern. I love it. :) Since we are also a working animal hospital, the animals routinely undergo checkups and husbandry behaviors that comprise a large portion of their behavior repertoire. So I've been helping one of 
the trainers sometimes with holding Indy's peduncle still in the water (from the platform) while she practices drawing blood from his dorsal fin. Earlier this week I held a mirror in the dolphin pool with the boys for enrichment purposes - it was very funny to see how to they react to their own reflection. After all, dolphins are one of very few species on this planet that are believed to possess self-awareness... so they swim by and check themselves out. Indy was using his rostrum to forcefully poke at my hand (which was holding the mirror in place in the water) to see if he could get a reaction out of me. When I didn't react so as not to reinforce the behavior, he decided to see if biting my hand would work instead. When that also failed, he eventually gave up. But it was very funny to watch his behavior - it's almost like you can SEE a dolphin's thought process as it's occurring; they're incredibly intelligent creatures and they will always have my deepest love and respect. I am supposed to start my official otter 
presentations tomorrow for the public - I'm kinda nervous that I'll forget something. But one of the trainers was being silly and decided to spray me with a hose while I was practicing yesterday and I was able to keep talking and not screw up while she was doing that to me. So while it was really funny, it was also a bit of a confidence builder. Because I realized that I DO know my presentation pretty well. I'm supposed to begin free-feeding the otters sometime soon, supervised by trainers. I'll have more on that next week. :)
Activity has picked up quite a bit at the aquarium. I've been doing food prep every single morning that I come in, so I feel like I'm mastering everything that needs to be done in there. I have taught a number of other volunteers and interns how to do the music for dolphin presentations, so I'm not the only one doing it anymore. This is nice since it frees me up to help out during presentations with other tasks that the trainers come up with. I've been working the gates for the dolphin pools any time they need the help, the protocol is pretty standard for that. I got to help out with a painting behavior with Indy down on the platform during a presentation last week and I was able to take the painting home with me as a courtesy, since I'm an intern. I love it. :) Since we are also a working animal hospital, the animals routinely undergo checkups and husbandry behaviors that comprise a large portion of their behavior repertoire. So I've been helping one of 
the trainers sometimes with holding Indy's peduncle still in the water (from the platform) while she practices drawing blood from his dorsal fin. Earlier this week I held a mirror in the dolphin pool with the boys for enrichment purposes - it was very funny to see how to they react to their own reflection. After all, dolphins are one of very few species on this planet that are believed to possess self-awareness... so they swim by and check themselves out. Indy was using his rostrum to forcefully poke at my hand (which was holding the mirror in place in the water) to see if he could get a reaction out of me. When I didn't react so as not to reinforce the behavior, he decided to see if biting my hand would work instead. When that also failed, he eventually gave up. But it was very funny to watch his behavior - it's almost like you can SEE a dolphin's thought process as it's occurring; they're incredibly intelligent creatures and they will always have my deepest love and respect. I am supposed to start my official otter 
presentations tomorrow for the public - I'm kinda nervous that I'll forget something. But one of the trainers was being silly and decided to spray me with a hose while I was practicing yesterday and I was able to keep talking and not screw up while she was doing that to me. So while it was really funny, it was also a bit of a confidence builder. Because I realized that I DO know my presentation pretty well. I'm supposed to begin free-feeding the otters sometime soon, supervised by trainers. I'll have more on that next week. :)
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