Safari Club members Safari Club members get exotic with ferrets, snakes and iguanas. Exotic NCTA Safari Club Jill R Koslosky Graduates have gone on to work with raptors, elephants, assist veterinarians in zoos and one graduate even had the opportunity to help spay a lion. All Safari Club members begin their exotic animal adventure in a 2-credit course. The course introduces students to a wide variety of exotic animals.
Students learn how to handle, care for and recognize problems in a number of species.
Over the years NCTA s exotic animal collection has grown to one of the most diverse and largest in the area. A llama, hedgehogs, a chinchilla, ferrets, salamanders, frogs, turtles, iguanas, Australian Sugar Gliders, a corn snake, a python, tarantulas, birds, a new California King Snake and more consider the NCTA campus home. The 2000 trip took the club to Texas and then to tropical Costa Rica. This summer the Safari Club will take a 5-day road trip to Texas. Stops along the way include the Oklahoma City Zoo where students will learn from zoo veterinarians and veterinary technologists.