That money translates into a much higher quality of care that can be afforded the animals. For example, there are facilities available including an operating room sufficient to fit an elephant. These differences in how a zoo can be effectively managed prompted her interest in pursuing a B-School degree to get into zoo and animal administration. She has met MBAs in the zoo world along the way though, most in marketing capacities. All that is interesting, but I wanted to know more about the animals, so I asked Lori for the dirt on some of her former associates.
Zebras are just smelly.
Cute is bad. The word cute is an attempt to anthropomorphize animals. If anything, the primate people would most likely use the word cute. For the most part, the zoos name mammals, and the biggest of the reptiles and birds. The names range from the names of relatives of zookeepers to characters on Star Trek.