It’s Thursday afternoon, and Build Week 18 starts with a call to action. Kenya Bostic, a certified veterinary technician and an animal enrichment expert from The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, calls in via Zoom to teach us about why animals in captivity so sorely need enriched environments that replicate the cognitive and physical challenges they would experience in the wild. She asks us: “How could you support animals in your community in this way?” We’ll answer the call across the course of the next week, as we build enrichment items for animals who need them at Austin Nature and Science Center, a haven in Zilker Park for a small group of native Texas animals who are disabled or otherwise unsuited to life in the wild….
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