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		<title>Help Us Celebrate Elephants!</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/05/14/help-us-celebrate-elephants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Kinzley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating Elephants is held in two parts, the first is a family fun and adventure packed day which will be on Saturday, May 25th. This will include opportunities for families to visit an elephant up close, create treat box enrichment for the elephants to eat, do behavioral observations of the elephants on exhibit, as well as eat cotton candy and get their faces painted! This is our opportunity to increase awareness of the ongoing and increasing destruction of the ivory trade, as well as the cruelty of the circus. Kids will have the chance to see how we safely and humanely care for our elephants. 

The second portion of the event will be an evening of h'ordeurves and spirits, accompanied by a silent auction and guest speaker on Friday May 17th. This year we have the great pleasure of welcoming friend and mentor, Ed Stewart, co-founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society; a leader in animal welfare and rescue. Since 1984, PAWS has been at the forefront of efforts to rescue and provide appropriate, humane sanctuary for animals who have been the victims of the exotic and performing animal trades. Ed will share the interesting and heartwarming stories of the lives of the elephants living in the sanctuary of ARK 2000 in the San Andreas hills of California. ]]></description>
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		<title>In The Majesty of Elephants</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/05/10/in-the-majesty-of-elephants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Everard Strong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gina Kinzley is the lead elephant keeper at Oakland Zoo. We wanted to learn more about the elephants and her role with them, so we asked her some questions. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Finale</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/04/19/the-grand-finale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Volunteering]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/?p=4274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eight months ago, I contacted Oakland Zoo with interest in learning more about the organization and inquired about a possible internship for the spring semester. Through much consideration and work on both ends, I was officially offered and accepted an internship opportunity with the Marketing Department at Oakland Zoo. I was absolutely thrilled to leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week Fourteen and Going Green</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/04/16/week-fourteen-and-going-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/?p=4265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was an exciting and packed week. I started the week off by shadowing more of the Education Department; this time for ZooSchool. I caught a ride from a colleague so that I could attend the morning meeting in the Education Department. Even though it wasn’t my department and I didn’t know much of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pachyderm Podiatry</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/04/13/pachyderm-podiatry-at-the-phoenix-zoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Kinzley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Elephants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking elephants, there are a multitude of things that are important when it comes to their health and well-being, but the care of their feet is at the top of the list. Foot disease and related issues are the number one reason for death in captive elephants. As Alan says, “foot care should be a culture at your facility”. I took away several important key facts from this workshop and I’d like to share them.]]></description>
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		<title>Three Months at Oakland Zoo</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/04/11/three-months-at-oakland-zoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/?p=4253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I worked on social media, posted my week twelve blog post, and launched Oakland Zoo’s Pinterest account. Researching, creating, launching, and managing a Zoo Pinterest account was one of my original internship duties and objectives. This was a great idea because it will be something I can use on my resume, in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week Twelve</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/04/02/week-twelve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/?p=4221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week was very heavy with social media activity. With the Grand Opening of Animales de los Arboles and Feast for the Beasts event, there was a lot to promote and I really wanted to engage the community. I originally set out with a goal to reach 12,000 Facebook fans, but then got to thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week Eleven</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/03/29/week-eleven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/?p=4206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I started off this week being the main contact for Earth Day related items since the Director of Conservation had an out of office conference to attend. This means I was responding to emails and calls with several different organizations to ensure that everything is in place for our upcoming event. In addition, I worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeks Nine and Ten of a Marketing Intern</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/03/25/weeks-nine-and-ten-of-a-marketing-intern/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/03/25/weeks-nine-and-ten-of-a-marketing-intern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/?p=4191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, things have definitely been picking up around the Zoo. Blog posts about my internship experience have been put on the back burner, but not forgotten. The past two weeks have been full of every day marketing type tasks such as writing and distributing press releases. The job doesn&#8217;t end once these stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is in the Air</title>
		<link>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/03/18/spring-is-in-the-air/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oaklandzoo.org/blog/2013/03/18/spring-is-in-the-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intern Emily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With spring around the corner, mating season is picking up and the Zoo family is starting to grow. In the past month, Oakland Zoo has welcomed four new kids, three pups, a blue-bellied roller fledgling, and some blue spiny lizards, all of which have been born here at the Zoo. Wait, whose kids are being [...]]]></description>
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