Zoo Summer Camp 2010 - Moorpark, California

Junior Campers will get to work with animals this Summer by attending America's Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College, the location for the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program.

Campers will learn how to give animal presentations, how to handle animals as well as doing art and science projects. All of the activities have been developed by the Exotic Animal Training and Management Staff with the campers age in mind. Activities will occur within the safety of zoo grounds under the direct supervision of their trained camp staff. Campers will have special access to the back areas, barns, classrooms, zoo kitchen, and wildlife theater.

Fridays will be a special day at the zoo. Full day campers and Night Owls will have the special privilege of inviting their family and friends to attend an animal show that they have prepared and star in. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for young people to work with animals in a zoo setting.

The Exotic Animal Training and Management (EATM) Program was established as a major at Moorpark College in 1974. Bill "Briz" Brisby, a Professor at Moorpark College, started the program with one animal - "Kiska", the wolf. In 1990, the EATM Compound was moved to its current location, on a 5 acre site overlooking all of the Moorpark College campus. Animal enclosures were built, and new ones are continuously being constructed. This extraordinary collection has included exotic animals ranging from Marmosets to an Asian Elephant, Leopard Geckos to Alligators, Turacos to Emus. We currently have a Bengal Tiger, African Lioness, Spotted Hyena, Mountain Lions, a California Sea Lion, a wide variety of Primates, Birds, and many, many other exotic and endangered animals.

For an application, go to:http://www.moorparkcollege.edu/current_students/teaching_zoo/junior_zoo_info.shtml