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DirectorsThom BrownMichael G. CarterNate CunniffDr. Robert DavisJoseph Frohna**Tami GarrisonMichael M. Grebe, Jr.John GrunauKatherine HustKaren Peck KatzMaria Gonzalez KnavelJoe KreslCaroline KriderJames KuehnThomas (T.J.) MariniQuinn MartinJack McKeithanJay McKennaKat MorrowGina Peter*

Joan Prince, Ph.D.Scott RedlingerHarold RedmanLacey SadoffBarry SattellKim SchafferRick SchmidtRyan SchultzThelma SiasBillie Jean SmithRoger SmithJon SohnJudy Holz StathasDavid StrelitzMichael StullRich TennessenTyler VassarGregory WesleyJane WierzbaRay Wilson

Honorary DirectorsWilliam J. Abraham, Jr.John B. BurnsWilliam M. Chester, Jr.Stephen M. DearholtTom DempseyRichard A. GallunJohn A. HazelwoodRobert A. KahlorAnn McNeerSandi MoomeyWilliam G. MoomeyJeff NeuenschwanderBernard J. PeckJay RobertsonJohn W. TaylorAllen W. Williams, Jr.Paul WongBernard C. Ziegler III

DirectorsAnthony BaishMichael BarkBrian BoeckerBill BusslerCherie EckmannJason EllsSean FinniganDarryll FortuneJoseph Frohna*Nezih HasanogluTony HopkinsPaul HultgrenGeorge JusticeEric LenzenKaren LothPat McQuillanKristin OcchettiJim OlsonKent Oren

Meghan ShannonTricia ShinnersBrenen SieberBrookellen TeuberChris TimmEido WalnyMark Zimmerman

Honorary DirectorsBob AngerDavid BattenLori BechtholdMatthew D’AttilioNora DreskeJohn FleckensteinMike FoxLinda GrunauEli GuzniczakLee Walther KordusPeter Kordus

Joe KreslQuinn MartinKat MorrowMargie PaurKatie Pionkoski Richard J. PodellBunny Raasch-HootenArlene RemsikBarry SattellDan SchwabeRandy ScovilleJudy Holz StathasJeff SterenDavid StrelitzJim SzymanskiKathleen TooheyJane WierzbaRay Wilson

The mission of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee is to participate in conserving endangered species, to educate people about the importance ofwildlife and the environment, and to support the Milwaukee County Zoo.

2013-2014 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

* Chair of the Board ** Associate Board President

2013-2014 ASSOCIATE BOARD

* Associate Board President

Alive is published in winter, spring and fall by the Zoological Society of Milwaukee County, 10005 W. Bluemound Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226-4383.Subscription is by membership only. Call 414-258-2333 for information orgo to www.zoosociety.org.

C E O ’ s L e t t e r

One of the Zoological Societyof Milwaukee’s (ZSM’s) missions isto support the Milwaukee CountyZoo. The most obvious way we dothis is through financial support.For example, in the 2012-13 fiscalyear, the ZSM provided $6,985,617in direct cash and in-kind supportto the Zoo. These funds paid forconservation efforts in the wild,Zoo exhibit upgrades, Zoo eventand attraction support, animal care and more.

But there is another importantway we help the Zoo: with our time.A good example is the work ourCreative Department dedicates

toward Zoo-related projects. As Zoo Director Chuck Wikenhauser notes(page 3), the Zoo is fortunate to have an in-house Creative Department thatdesigns and creates most of the Zoo’s signage, banners and more. Accordingto Marcia Sinner, the ZSM’s creative director, about 1,000 hours a year arededicated toward such projects. The five-person creative team also designsitems you don’t see at the Zoo, such as advertisements and Web graphics.About 300 to 600 hours per year are spent on special projects. A prime example is the interactive audio-video kiosks, museum-quality dioramaand wall graphics at the indoor bonobo exhibit. The Alive magazine you’reholding in your hand, our Wild Things newsletter, education class schedulesand more are also designed by the Creative Department.

I hope you enjoy your 2015 calendar and the dazzling animal photos shot by veteran photographer Richard Brodzeller. And remember, the nexttime you come to the Zoo, pay attention to the creative work around you.Without the skills of the Creative Department, our Zoo wouldn’t be one of the best in the country.

Dr. Robert (Bert) Davis, Chief Executive Officer

EditorStacy Vogel Davis

ContributorsPaula BrookmireZak MazurDr. Gay Reinartz

Graphic DesignerRoberta Weldon

PrinterNML Graphics

PhotographerRichard Brodzeller(unless otherwise noted)

O N T H E C OV E RA Damara zebra at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

President/CEODr. Robert M. Davis

Communications,Marketing & MembershipRobin Higgins, Vice President

Finance/AdministrationJohn Heindel,Vice President

DevelopmentPenny Gutekunst,Vice President

Conservation Dr. Gay Reinartz,Coordinator

CreativeMarcia T. Sinner,Director

EducationJames Mills,Director

Technology/Membership ServicesDominic Schanen,Director

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Fall 2014 Volume 34, Issue 3

C O N T E N T SZoo Support: Creatively Decorating the Zoo . . . . . . . . . . 3Education: 25 Years of Animal Ambassadors . . . . . . . . . . 4Conservation: Little House in the Rainforest . . . . . . . . . . 6

Dr. Robert Davis stands near a graphicdisplay created by the Zoological

Society of Milwaukee creative team at the bonobo exhibit.

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You can excuse Chuck Wikenhauser for thinking the Milwaukee

County Zoo is one of the best in the country – after all, he’s the

director. But he also serves on the Accreditation Commission for

the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), so he knows what

he’s talking about. When it comes to creative visuals, Wikenhauser

says the Zoo scores high.

“Our signage and graphics are some of the best in the AZA,”

he says. “The at-exhibit signage contains a lot of information,

but it’s not overwhelming. The signs are very inviting to the eye.”

Wikenhauser says some people think the Zoological Society

of Milwaukee (ZSM) only helps the Zoo financially. But there are

other ways the ZSM helps. The large amount of time the Creative

Department spends on Zoo-related projects is one example.

“We’re very lucky to have an in-house Creative Department,”

he says. “It would be more costly to use an outside agency to design

and fabricate signage and other items. Plus, we wouldn’t have a

close relationship like we have with Creative. I think it makes our

artists feel personally responsible for making the Zoo look great.”

The ZSM also helps the Zoo get AZA accreditation. “To be

accredited, you have to have an education program,” says

Wikenhauser. The ZSM’s Conservation Education Department

offers Zoo classes, camps and more. This includes Kohl’s Wild

Theater, the ZSM’s popular theater group, which is made possible

by a partnership with Kohl’s Cares.

The ZSM obtains financial support and sponsorships from

companies and individuals to fund Zoo and ZSM programs and

events. The Development Department runs high-level donor

groups like the Platypus Circle and a planned giving program,

the Simba Circle. There is also a group for foundations and

sponsors called the Serengeti Circle.

Additional support comes from Zoo Pride, the volunteer

auxiliary of the ZSM. Zoo Pride contributes about 50,000 volunteer

An at-exhibit sign designedby the Zoological Society’sCreative Department

Many Ways to Support the ZooChuck Wikenhauser admiresan Alaskan brown bear.

hours annually. “They enhance the Zoo experience in so many

ways, from helping at events to educating guests at animal exhibits,”

says Wikenhauser.

The ZSM’s annual appeal raises money for exhibit renovations,

like the outdoor gorilla exhibit. Past appeals have included web-

cams in animal exhibits and a revamp of Belle, the fiberglass

Holstein cow in the Zoo’s dairy barn. When it comes to conservation

efforts in the wild, the ZSM helps fund zookeepers and other staff

to travel all over the world for research. Funds also support the Zoo’s

veterinary staff and two residency programs. The Sponsor an Animal

program raises money for the Zoo’s animals.

Wikenhauser says people often praise their Zoo Pass membership.

“It’s a great deal, but people don’t realize it’s not a Zoo-operated pro-

gram,” he says. Zoo Pass is run by the ZSM’s

Communications, Marketing & Membership

Department, which also produces an annual

animal-themed calendar as well as Wild Things

newsletter and Alive magazine. “Both of those

publications are very popular,” says Wikenhauser.

“They give members the inside scoop and let

people know what’s going on. Then they’ll tell

their friends, ‘Guess what I just found out is

happening at the Zoo!’”

By Zak Mazur

For many Milwaukee-area children, the African animals or

big cats at the Milwaukee County Zoo are familiar sights. But for

children from disadvantaged neighborhoods, a trip to the Zoo

can be rare. Some have never been there, even if it’s only a few

miles from their homes.

That’s where Animal Ambassador steps in. The Zoological

Society of Milwaukee (ZSM) program, celebrating its 25th anniver-

sary this year, connects thousands of children every year from

schools in Milwaukee, Waukesha and South Milwaukee to the

Zoo, teaching them about animals, conservation and the envi-

ronment. “They become ambassadors who speak up for the

animals,” says Julie Pickard, ZSM school program manager. She

has coordinated the Animal Ambassador programs for 15 years.

Since 1989, more than 36,000 students have gone through

the program. Many “ambassador” graduates are adults now, and

at least one teacher whose class participated in the 2013-14 pro-

gram went through it as a student, Pickard says. Each school has a

sponsor, typically a foundation or corporation, underwriting the

cost of the program. Participation has grown to 21 schools, up

from seven when the program began. Another five schools with

smaller classes experience a modified program.

The Animal Ambassador program works with fourth-grade

students at schools in economically disadvantaged neighbor-

hoods, mostly in the city of Milwaukee. The children take a trip to

the Zoo to work in the ZSM’s state-of-the-art Animal Adaptations

Lab in the Karen Peck Katz Conservation Education Center.

Then they receive a school visit from Pickard to learn about

Wisconsin animals before taking a second field trip to the Zoo

to learn about endangered animals. The program is capped off

with a graduation ceremony in the Peck Welcome Center at

the Zoo where each child receives an animal-science book and

tickets to the Zoo for his or her family. Some schools also partici-

pate in the Animal Ambassador Continuum for second- and

third-graders. The younger children learn about animal group-

ings, habitats, ecosystems and food chains and also get to visit

the Zoo.

Dr. Robert Davis, president and CEO of the ZSM, has worked

at zoos across the country. He said Animal Ambassador stands

out in his experience for its longevity and the direct connections it

creates between the community, the Zoo and the education staff.

“We’ve been able to develop significant long-term relationships

with schools and students throughout the years,” he says.

Angela Gutierrez, a fourth-grade teacher at La Causa Charter

School in Milwaukee, went through the program with her students

for the first time in 2013-14. “A majority of the students had

never been able to go to the Zoo,” she says. “For them, it was

life changing.”

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Shaperiyon B., 10, of Milwaukee, gets ready to peerthrough the microscope. The children learn aboutadaptations and other animal-related topics.

(From left), Thangyeng L.,10; Darviantae H., 10; and Demetrius J., 9, pet a turtle at the KarenPeck Katz Conservation Education Center.

Ashanti A., 10, of Milwaukee,proudly displays the certificateand book she received at the Animal Ambassador graduation.

In 2013-14, Animal Ambassadors received funding of more than $107,000. Sponsors included:

Antonia FoundationArnow & AssociatesCharles D. Jacobus Family FoundationEaton’s Cooper Power SystemsJerome J. & Dorothy H. Holz Family FoundationJoy Global Foundation, Inc.Peck Foundation Ltd., Milwaukee PPG Industries FoundationRockwell AutomationSadoff Family FoundationU.S. Cellular®

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Concepts they learned through Animal Ambassador, such as

the animal kingdom and adaptations, aligned with the fourth-grade

science curriculum. It also helped them improve their vocabularies,

Gutierrez says. But the field trips made the difference between

learning about animals from a book or lecture and seeing them in

real life. She recalls the students’ awe and joy when they visited a

big cat and saw it walk to the window and put its huge paw on the

glass: “They were right up close and personal. They thought it

was amazing.”

The program gets the families involved, too, with worksheets

encouraging the students to talk to their parents about recycling,

energy efficiency and other conservation efforts. The students can

earn additional books by filling out the take-home sheets, which

seemed to spark real discussion among the families, Gutierrez says.

The families see the result of their children’s work at the gradu-

ation ceremony, Pickard says. The ZSM encourages them to return

with the tickets provided to the children – two adult tickets, three

child tickets, three

special exhibit tickets

and a parking pass.

“The goal is to have the kids use those tickets to begin to fulfill

their roles as ambassadors,” she says. “They’re ambassadors for

wildlife to their families.”

The Charles D. Jacobus Family Foundation has sponsored the

program since nearly the beginning. Missy MacLeod, foundation

president, says the program allows kids to see something Milwaukee

has to offer outside of their neighborhoods. The foundation also

appreciates the opportunity to sponsor a specific school, Westside

Academy II in Milwaukee, year after year.

“The children realize how important it is to have the opportu-

nity to get to a different place and experience different kinds of

environments,” she says.

By Stacy Vogel Davis

Photos by Richard Taylor

E d u c a t i o n

Here is what some of the students had to say about the Animal Ambassador program in spring 2014:

What does an Animal Ambassador do?

“They speak for the animals and let people know animals need help.”

-Anna, Rawson Elementary School, South Milwaukee

What can you do to help endangered animals?

“I can help by telling the people who cut down animal habitats

why it’s important not to kill their home.”

-Douglas, Browning Elementary School, Milwaukee

I want to be an Animal Ambassador because ...“I love animals, and it will mean a lot for me to help living creatures.”-Ke’Nevaeh, Clara Barton Elementary School, Milwaukee

If you could be any animal,what would it be and why?“I would be a cheetah because I could go to school faster.”-Hannah, A.E. Burdick School, Milwaukee

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6 Alive Fall 2014

“Adaptive Management”– it’s a term used in conservation to describe the fluid nature of the work: reacting to changing environmental and social conditions, reordering priorities andpreparing for unforeseen circumstances. For us, it means what can go wrong, will go wrong. There is no clearer example than moving a house to Etate.

The barge carrying walls, rafters and floors from Kinshasa to Mbandaka was already 10 days late. The builders couldn’t tellus when it would arrive – it was putt-putting its way somewherealong the 435-mile stretch of the Congo River.

Patrick Guislain, field projects coordinator for BCBI, and I left Etate to meet the shipment in Mbandaka. We left most of ourteam behind and took a small pirogue, reaching Mbandaka in arecord 24 hours – only to wait.

In the meantime, we had to find someone to help us build thehouse once we got it to Etate. Our initial plan – to work with engi-neers from a partner organization – had to be scrapped when theorganization left the country prematurely. With the exception of ascrewdriver and a Leatherman multi-tool, we lacked the tools andskills to build a house. Who would even consider taking on such

a debacle on short notice – to put together a house that was somewhere on a boat, without a floor plan, and then plop it in the middle of the jungle? All we had was the name of a builderin Mbandaka, Mr. Jean Mbangi.

When we met Jean, he listened patiently to our story, whichI timidly relayed in broken French. To our utter amazement, heagreed to help us.

For the next two days, we set about finding three pirogueslarge enough to carry 15 tons of house parts. In the boiling heatof the day, Patrick and I visited the ports of Mbandaka – filthy,crowded, backwater places. By the end of the day, we had foundthe pirogues, each around 50 to 55 feet long, 4 to 5 feet wide, andin relatively good shape. The next step was to join them togetherand build a large platform across them that could carry the wallsand rafters.

The flotilla had to be sturdy but flexible. To get all the piroguewalls close to the same level, we distributed 15 barrels of fuel.Over the next two days, our team made pallets that conformed to the outline of each pirogue wall, functioning as separators andkeeping each pirogue in line. Finally four large beams, bound with

Erecting a prefabricatedstructure might sound easy.But not when the unassem-bled 15 tons of house partsmust be loaded on narrowpirogues (dugout canoes)and hauled along a series of rivers for four days in the remote rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

That’s what staff of the Bonobo & Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI) recently did. BCBI is the Zoological Society of Milwaukee’s(ZSM’s) premier conservation program. When the team finally arrived at its destination – the Etate research and patrol station, locatedinside the remote Salonga National Park – the house had to be assembled. Etate’s structures are built from simple forest materials –sticks, palm fronds and thatch – and therefore must be constantly refurbished or rebuilt. The prefabricated house will last for many years to come.

Dr. Gay Reinartz, the conservation coordinator for BCBI, provides a first-person account of the difficult task.

C o n s e r v a t i o n

A team lashed three canoes together totransport 15 tons of building material fora house at the bonobo research stationin Etate.

Loading and unloading the materials onthe makeshift barge was grueling work.

rope to each pirogue, spanned the entire girth of the assembly, tyingit together. As the final pallet went on, we spotted the barge comingupriver – a massive structure that stretched 150 yards or more. Perfect timing!

River barges in Africa are curious sights. Draped with raggedtarps that shield masses of people from the scorching sun on deck,they carry every form of cargo, from heat-stroked goats to wanderingpigs, trailer trucks, John Deere tractors and newborn babies. Ourhouse was surrounded by families crouched in its shadows, womencooking on charcoal fires and men arranging places to sleep for the night.

I found the head man; he was eating his supper and did not takekindly to an interruption. I asked when we could receive our cargo.“Not until Monday, Madame, day after tomorrow, and you must havethis paper and that authorization,” he said. We had neither. Then therewould be port taxes to pay. (I should have seen that one coming.)

Then I spotted the lopsided, haphazard stack of the metal-framedwalls of our house. Two were badly bent. My heart sank. Constructiondepended on each preformed piece fitting exactly. Already we had a problem.

On Monday, Jean Mbangi “arranged” for us to receive our shippingpapers (in the traditional Congo-stylenegotiations) and claim our cargo. Weimmediately realized one wall wasmissing. Fortunately, it was an inside wall. We’d have to improvise.

Our next hurdle was to unload thehouse piece by piece and cart it to JeanMbangi’s port where we had parked ourconvoy. As luck would have it, Jean founda guy with a massive flatbed trailer and

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The team worked creatively toovercome challenges, resulting in a sturdy, sustainable structure.

Dr. Gay Reinartz

an old tractor. Once the tractor and trailer were in place on the dock, the process of moving each wall began.

It took 14 men to move and carry one wall at a time.A miscalculation could break a finger, hand or worse. They mostlydragged each piece, and as they did, locks and windows flew off;metal gouged and scraped the fine paneling. Patrick discovered that the walls were not put together according to our specifications:Walls that should have had windows instead had doors. Doors and windows opened the wrong way.

Early the following morning, with the help of another team of14 men, we loaded the panels onto our pirogue barge, fitting piecesinto place like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Could the barge hold the fullweight without sinking? At last, the final rafter came on board. Theplatform held! A heartwarming cheer went up, and for the first timesince leaving Etate, we allowed ourselves to believe that it mightjust work.

Ten of us sailed out of Mbandaka the next morning at an averagespeed of 4.2 miles per hour. We made sleeping quarters in the bowof the convoy and covered them with a tarp to shield us from thestorms that would periodically pound us along the way. For four hotdays, we tugged along through rain and shine.

On the first night, it was too dark to see the river, and our pilotasked if we could pull over for a while. Blinding heat lightning madeit impossible for the pilots to see. On the third night, the pilot fellasleep at the helm, and we landed in some tree branches – no damage done.

At about 9 p.m. on the fourth day, May 3, we landed in Etate. As we approached camp, the guards and research crew were waitingon the dark shore. Gradually they caught the enormous convoy intheir flashlights and let out a spontaneous, collective gasp. A cheerwent up, “Delta Force One! Delta Force One!”

I gave Patrick a high-five. A 10-year wait had come to an end.Despite its bruises and gouged sides, busted locks and missingwalls, Etate had a house. Adaptive Management.

BCBI is a partner with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on theCentral Africa Forest Ecosystems Conservation (CAFEC) of theCentralAfrica Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), Phase III, whichis funded by USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Development).

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Sun

day

Mon

day

Tues

day

Wed

nes

day

Thur

sday

Frid

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turd

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o by

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f all

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Sun

day

Mon

day

Tues

day

Wed

nes

day

Thur

sday

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Sun

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Mon

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Tues

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Sun

day

Mon

day

Tues

day

Wed

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day

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.

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day

Mon

day

Tues

day

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day

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Sun

day

Mon

day

Tues

day

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day

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day

Mon

day

Tues

day

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nes

day

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ber

2015

Sun

day

Mon

day

Tues

day

Wed

nes

day

Thur

sday

Frid

aySa

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Mon

day

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day

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A m

andrill at the M

ilwaukee C

ounty Zoo

About the photog

rapherFrom

atrotting hippo

toa

curiousbushbaby,

photographerRichard

Brodzeller

hascaptured

thepersonalities

ofa

rangeof

animals

attheM

ilwaukee

County

Zoo.Afreelance

photographerfrom

Mequon, he has been taking photos at the Zoo for about 40

years, half of that time as the m

ain photographer for the Zoolog-ical Society of M

ilwaukee.ForB

rodzeller’stipsonphotographing

animals

atthe

Zoo,goto

zoosociety.org/animalpix. There

you’llalso

finda

linkto

apastA

livem

agazine story on this photographerw

ho has been called one of the best in the Milw

aukee area.

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dar

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aukee and M

ilwaukee County Zoo