Tag: junior keepers

Celebrate Earth Day with Safari West!

Earth Day comes around once a year and it’s our chance to put our planet front and center, to reflect on how it’s doing today and how we’d like it...

April 12, 2017 by Safari West Staff

Congratulations to our Junior Keepers!

The Safari West Wildlife Foundation is proud to announce the graduation of two long-standing Junior Keepers! Zach Welch and Loren Gillogly entered the Junior Keeper program in 2011 and spent...

December 9, 2016 by Safari West Staff

Bats, Bones, & Walking with the Dead

This year for Halloween you could stick with the same-old-same-old. You could go snag a cheap costume from Wal-Mart, make a lap around the block and retire with a sad...

October 6, 2016 by Aphrodite Caserta

Bats, Bones, and Walking with the Dead

Halloween has always been a big deal here at Safari West, and this year may be the biggest yet. We’re really pulling out all the stops this time around and...

September 20, 2016 by Jared Paddock

Enter the Dragons!

Safari West is home to over 90 fascinating species and nearly 900 individual animals. Not long ago, the number of creatures calling this place home went up by 2. Safari...

July 13, 2016 by Jared Paddock

Safari Spotlight: Crested Porcupines & Jr. Keepers

Rodents, famous for being numerous, disease-carrying, and nearly impossible to kill are possibly the most misunderstood and fascinating of the mammalian orders. The defining characteristic of rodents are the sharp...

June 15, 2016 by Jared Paddock