Today, the Safari sits down with Emily Mack to talk about grief. In a short period of time, the zoo Emily formerly worked at lost four animals on her string. To put it mildly, this was NOT a good time for Emily or her team. So we go into great detail on the relationships she had with her animals, what the losses felt like, and what living with and getting past that grief looked like to Emily.

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Dateline: November 15, 2024. Rossifari Zoo News is back with a round up of the latest news in the world of zoos, aquariums, conservation, and animal weirdness!

We start off with my life. Yay.

We then do a quick headline story about a study that looks at the best way to experience a zoo or aquarium. My guess is you won't be surprised.

We then move on to our births section, including babies at Adventure Aquarium, Darling Downs Zoo, Gulf Breeze Zoo, and Brookfield Zoo.

We also say goodbye to some incredible animals from the Edinburgh Zoo, the Columbus Zoo, the Calgary Zoo, and Cameron Park Zoo.

We then move on to our other Zoo News stories. This episode features stories from Edmonton Valley Zoo and the Toronto Zoo, The Bronx Zoo, Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, The North Carolina Zoo, the Maryland Zoo, Woodland Park Zoo, Cincinnati Zoo, and more.

In Conservation News, we talk about the proposed new head of the EPA, why turtles being awesome is bad, the way AI is effecting the environment, and a debate about whether a species is back from extinction.

In Other News, we talk about the tiger at the LSU game, the largest coral in the world, a marching zoo, and an update on the monkey escape from last week.

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Today, the Safari sits down with Jamie Delk in Dallas to talk a little bit about her career at the zoo, but a whole lot about the journey she has been on since she was the guest on the Season 1 finale of Rossifari. We talk about changes in her life and in her perspective that led her to walk away from zookeeping entirely, what she did in her time away from the field, and what finally drew her back into it. Along the way we joke, go into deeply personal stories, and more. Jamie's first episode was one of my most discussed episodes ever, and I'm sure this one will join the ranks as well!

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