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Margaret Rousser – Bio
Margaret Rousser has 20 years of experience training a wide variety of animals from marine mammals to free flight birds to primates. She has been at the Oakland Zoo since 2006, beginning there as a Zoological Manager for the Children’s Zoo and primates. Her responsibilities during that time included serving as the enrichment and training coordinator for the entire zoo as well as managing the day to day operations of that section. In 2017, she became the Conservation Manager. She currently manages Oakland Zoo’s Biodiversity Centre which houses the amphibian conservation programs.
Margaret has a BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, and an AS in Exotic Animal Training and Management from Moorpark College. She has served on AZA’s (Association of Zoo’s & Aquariums) Hamadryas Baboon Advisory committee and was on the Board of Directors of the ABMA (Animal Behavior Management Alliance) for nearly ten years serving as secretary, Vice President, and President. She has been passionate about improving animal welfare through positive reinforcement training and enrichment throughout her career.
Cleaning and training/enrichment matrix examples mentioned in the podcast
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Imtetesting podcast my friend and I just visited Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando Florida and we both commented several times during the visit on how sterile the environment was not just where the animals were but the humans as well. Unbelievably clean considering how many people go through there we didn’t see not one insect