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Hello all, I have returned from my African deployment. I see that there hasn't been too much activity here since I left, but that's kinda the norm, I guess.

I did manage to find one cool spider and a few scorpions while I was over there. No tarantulas though. But I did get to get in the cage and pet a cheetah and a hyena so that was very cool.

See you all around!
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KJ Vezino
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At a zoo-museum in CA, they had a young adult male puma, very well care-for, absolutely beautiful, and awe inspiring, who was "tame". I'm not generally afraid of animals, but when the curator demonstrated to me how the cougar enjoyed rough-housing with people, even strangers, I just couldn't do it. I already knew too much about them to risk even a thousand-to-one mis-chance. With just a few swats he could have changed my whole life. Come to think of it, Jerry 'was' kind of inviting me to play in traffic, because you just never know when a captive wild animal will act out of character. Surprise bites from 20 pound iguanas is about all I can take. Look up Iguana Bite on Google LOL.

Roger

They had 2 hyena, 1 was very used to human contact, the other wasn't. They had 7-8 cheetah. One was very tame, you could get in the cage with it, without any concern. A couple others you could pet through the cage, but they said that their former owners had rough housed with them, so they were used to "playtime". SO we couldn't get into the cage with them for the concern of them going too far. I know a few of the volunteer coordinators who got in with them a coulple times.
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KJ Vezino
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