Someone's Gotta Do It - Zoo

It's time again for Clayton Clark's new weekly series called Someone's Gotta Do It. This week, C...  More »

It's time again for Clayton Clark's new weekly series called Someone's Gotta Do It. This week, Clayton takes us inside the cages of the North American animals at the Roosevelt Park Zoo where he teams upwith a zookeeper to feed the animals without becoming lunch himself... (Clayton Clark, KX News) The Roosevelt Park Zoo is closed for the season but almost 200 animals have to be fed and taken care of everyday...and someone's gotta do it. (Lynsi Schneider / North American Curator) As zoo keepers our job is to feed the animals, clean them, take care of them, just make sure their overall general health is very well. Today we'll be taking care of our grey horned owls, our hawks, eagles, wolves and bobcat. We have on all of our boards what our animals get so we'll just go by this and weigh out that amount of meat and feed it out to them. You want to wear the gloves so you don't get blood all over your hands because dealing with carnivores you don't want to smell like blood because they'll attack. So about that size is .4 and we need nine of them. So if you want to cut that without cutting yourself. It works a lot easier if you poke down and pull. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Now it's too much. Alright, Time to feed the eagles. Is that a good throw. (Lynsi Schneider / North American Curator) She uses her talons as her weapon so she will come down and grab you with them as if she were hunting. (Clayton Clark, KX New) That's probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. Breakfast is served. (Lynsi Schneider / North American Curator) Very good. Good boy. Just show him the bucket and dump it upside down. (Clayton Clark, KX News) Alright Lynsi I just want to thank you for letting me see what you guys at the Roosevelt Park Zoo do here during the winter. I hope you enjoyed having me here and I had a great time. Thanks. Clayton is looking to you for great ideas so if you have an idea or would like him to come help you out on the job, you can email him at cclark@kxnet.com or call him at the number on your screen.  « Less