MENAGERIE OF WORK; KIDS CHIP IN AND HELP AT ZOO.Byline: Jennifer Hamm Staff Writer If feeding carrots to exotic camels and planting lion's tail Li´on's tail` n. 1. (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); - so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. plants is part of the work day at the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. , then that would be a fine career for Roxy Burkhart, the 9-year-old Burbank resident said Thursday. ``I really want to work here when I grow up. It looks fun,'' said Burkhart, who was among the 30 children of zoo employees who spent the day finding out what grown-ups on the job there do. ``School is kind of fun but I'd rather go to work because you get to work with the animals.'' Thousands of children throughout Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. hung out at all kinds of workplaces Thursday to find out what their moms and dads do all day long. Though the zoo held a coed event, many businesses stuck to the traditional Take Our Daughters to Work Day - the national public education campaign the Ms. Foundation for Women sponsors to teach young women about the possibilities for them in the work force. At the zoo, the children took part in a wide array of activities, giving them a chance to find out what kind of jobs are available. On one of the morning stops, the youngsters learned about zoo officials who keep the grounds well stocked with Adj. 1. stocked with - furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store" stocked furnished, equipped - provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment"; plants and flowers. One of the zoo's horticulturists told the children to follow their hearts when looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a career. ``If you have passion, go for it,'' said Janica Jones, a horticulturist. ``Do anything you can to learn about that passion.'' Ten-year-old Nichole Parker has known for a few years that she wants to work with animals, just like her mom who oversees the zoo's two koala koala (kōä`lə), arboreal marsupial, or pouched mammal, Phascolarctos cinereus, native to Australia. Although it is sometimes called koala bear, or Australian bear, and is somewhat bearlike in appearance, it is not related to true bears. Nichole, a Little Rock resident, sometimes goes with her mom to work anyway. But Thursday was a good chance to go all over the zoo. ``I love animals,'' she said. And they love Nichole, said her mother Robin Parker. ``She's a natural at it. You either have it or you don't,'' said the older Parker. ``The animals react very well to her. Animals know whether you like them or you don't. They have very good instincts.'' Zoo keeping isn't all cuddling with koalas. There's plenty of dirty work to humble even the most noble of animal lovers. Nashla Barakat, a 12-year-old Burbank resident, was just lukewarm luke·warm adj. 1. Mildly warm; tepid. 2. Lacking conviction or enthusiasm; indifferent: gave only lukewarm support to the incumbent candidate. about spending part of the day ``cleaning poop'' from camels. ``It kind of smells,'' she said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Nashla Barakat, 12, of Burbank, feeds Gita, a 42-year-old Asian elephant Asian elephant Elaphus maximus. , a carrot Thursday at the L.A. Zoo. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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