*boing boing boing*

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Everyone enjoyed the warmer weather at the zoo today. I just had to take video of those Goiter Gazelle bouncing around. When there's snow on the ground they tend to just stay in one place all day. It was summer-like traffic today, the second entrance even had to be opened for the first time in 5 months. Nice to actually run into people on the outdoor trails again. Of course Jasper the sea otter barely gave me a second glance now that he has other people to play with but I kinda expected that.

Only one special request of volunteers today, and that was binturong watch. The zoo has a new male that doesn't really like to go out on exhibit, and the one time he did he managed to find an escape route out of the exhibit. I'm starting to get the impression that binturongs in general are escape artists because one of the originals at the zoo also escaped and they had to chop a branch off the tree to block her route. Anyway, keepers modified the rockwork but wanted volunteers to look for any shenanigans if he were to come out of holding. Yeah, he never came out so it pretty much amounted to me staring at a hole in the wall for half an hour. Luckily they share an exhibit with the tapirs so there was something for me to talk (aka bring up repeatedly that they are neither anteater nor pig) about.

Apparently I might possibly be in charge of the bunnies at the main zoo for my day during Farm Babies? It's just training the other volunteers how to handle the bunnies and cleaning out their enclosure in the morning so no tough gig.