NorthJersey.com: Feeding the animals at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange


Video credit: NorthJersey.com
I've passed through one of those "Employees Only" doors at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange. The next thing I know, I'm standing next to a crate filled with about 20 pounds of produce — and the woman who usually chops it all up, 32-year-old animal keeper Tamara Myhal of Maplewood. Myhal has two cats at home. And two bears at work — not to mention a woodchuck, an emu, one very large pig, several llamas, kangaroos, snakes, wildcats, birds of every shape, size and color and, well, you name it.

"Our leopard eats about $5,000 worth of meat a year," says zoo director Dr. Jeremy Goodman, 39, as Myhal hands me her big brown crate of green, orange and yellow produce and tells me to get hopping. And chopping.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 8/24/2010 1:00 PM
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: west orange llamas pig snakes turtle back zoo wildcats zoo emu birds kangaroo leopard
 

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