Provide interpretive education using biofacts and talks to zoo visitors. Handle specified zoo residents to provide visitors up close opportunities to see animals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. Provide a Speakers Bureau to explain zoo and animal activities to interested groups in the community. Aid the zoo staff in providing animal enrichment activities for zoo animals. If so, becoming a docent at the zoo may be for you.
Docents fit into two categories based on availability.
Tour Educators are available during weekdays and provide the classroom safaris and zoo tours for students. Interpretive Educators are available to provide education to visitors on zoo grounds by utilizing biofacts and house talks on weekends. There are no additional CMZA dues but applicants must be willing to pay for the instruction manual and required uniforms. Successful completion of classroom training which lasts approximately 12 weeks, meeting several times per week. The next class is scheduled to start in January 2002.