{"id":10277,"date":"2011-12-08T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=10277"},"modified":"2011-12-09T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:12:33","slug":"zookeeper-rick-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/08\/zookeeper-rick-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"ZooKeeper Rick On TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Schwartz<\/a>, Animal Ambassador for the San Diego Zoo<\/a> (and friend of mine) had a segment this morning on the Today Show. He spoke to Matt, Ann and Al about the conservation efforts zoos around the world are making together to help save endangered species. He presented four animals, an African Penguin, a Chinese Alligator, Kayla the Kinkajou or Honey Bear and a West African Crane. He will have one more segment tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Schwartz, Animal Ambassador for the San Diego Zoo (and friend of mine) had a segment this morning on the Today Show. He spoke to Matt, Ann and Al about the conservation efforts zoos around the world are making together to help save endangered species. He presented four animals, an African Penguin, a Chinese Alligator, … <\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14,59,26,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-2FL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2547,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/15\/met-with-rick-to-deliver-fuji\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":0},"title":"Met With Rick To Deliver Fuji","date":"October 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Met with Rick Schwartz, the San Diego Zoo Ambassador, to give him my canvas print of Fuji, the Red Panda, as a birthday gift for his wife, who was Fuji's keeper until he passed away.","rel":"","context":"In "San Diego"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/San-Diego-Zoo01-10-15-10-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10303,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/09\/zookeeper-rick-day-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":1},"title":"ZooKeeper Rick, Day Two","date":"December 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Second day for Rick Schwartz, the San Diego Zoo animal ambassador, to be on the Today Show. \u00a0Today he presented animals actually from our zoo, including Isa the fossa, a beautifully colored milk snake, Victor the echidna, and a crested porcupine named Ruva. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2118,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/01\/work-and-play-at-the-zoo\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":2},"title":"Work And Play At The Zoo","date":"October 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"First I met with Rick, the San Diego Zoo Ambassador, to talk about his interest in one of my pictures. Then I walked around taking pictures, with an emphasis on the gorillas because of yesterday's passing of 45-year old Alvila.","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/African-Slender-snouted-Crocodile-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9340,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/10\/15\/animal-ambassadors-at-the-zoo\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":3},"title":"Animal Ambassadors at the Zoo","date":"October 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Attended another tweet-up at the San Diego Zoo for a presentation by Zoo Ambassador Rick Schwartz of three of the zoo's animal ambassadors. First up was Isa the fossa, followed by Phu (pronounced foo) Ket the binturong and finishing up with Rio the Amazon parrot. These tweet-ups are always very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Animal-Ambassadors-Tweetup01-10-15-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1808,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/16\/galapagos-tortoise-exhibit-grand-opening\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":4},"title":"Galapagos Tortoise Exhibit Grand Re-Opening – Post #200","date":"September 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Spent the morning at the San Diego Zoo with Heather for the grand re-opening of the Galapagos Tortoise exhibit. Got to pet and feed a couple of the tortoises. Also talked to Rick Shwartz who will be in charge of the Tweet-up on Saturday. Also got to pet a Ball\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fauna"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3241,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2010\/11\/12\/happened-across-some-animals-at-the-zoo\/","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":5},"title":"Happened Across Some Animals At The Zoo Today","date":"November 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Spent a nice, sunny day at the Zoo with Mary and her daughter Diana. Ran into Rick, the Zoo Ambassador, who told me about another tweet-up they're having tomorrow morning. It will be avian-focused.","rel":"","context":"In "Friends"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10307,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10277\/revisions\/10307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}