Jack Gelfond laid a hand across the two little metal elephants on the pocket of his safari shirt. “It hurts me,” he said. We were standing outside the Lincoln Park Zoo. He looked like he might cry.

When Tulsa Zoo docent Allen Hall conducts a program or presentation, he would much rather be holding a snake than a ferret. "I have more problems with mammals than with snakes or invertebrates. I've ...

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Schilling, whose passion for animals led her to become a volunteer docent at the Philadelphia Zoo eight years ago, spends upward of 90 hours a year sharing her love of animals with some of the 1 ...

Essex County Turtle Back Zoo is recruiting volunteers for its 2025 Docent Class. The docents give educational talks, act as tour guides, and provide information to visitors about the zoo and its ...

The Saint Louis Zoo is seeking animal lovers to work as docents. Interviews are taking place in August and September for the docent training session, which will begin in January. Docents are volunteer ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Ever wonder what it would be like to work at the Zoo? The Staten Island Zoo offers the general public an opportunity to interact with the animals and educate their fellow ...

Docent Janie Glass is the first ever Louisville Zoo docent to volunteer a total of 10,000 hours. Glass has been a docent, a volunteer teacher who works with the Louisville Zoo Education Department, ...

Anne Stauffer can’t get enough of the Topeka Zoo. She started going with her daughter in the early 1990s, when the family first moved to the city, and quickly discovered the docent program. The ...

Do you love animals? Children? Are you looking for a rewarding volunteer opportunity? Check out the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) docent training program at an information meeting today, ...