Learned the cues and signals for the dolphin hand stations and body presents! (What that means is like ventral and dorsal line ups, pec presents, and tail flukes presents.)
Watched a lot of research sessions! For the next four weeks I am assigned to the research pier, so we are mostly just observing various research projects with the sea lions and dolphins. It's not too eventful, but it is cool to see all the animals involved in the research.
This week, I'm actually assigned to Depot, which is where they fix everything and build stuff. Today I spent three hours scrubbing some above ground dolphin pools with brushes. My arms and chest are killing me! But it was quite satisfying to see the pool go from disgusting to sparkling clean! Only bad part was that I was shin deep in dolphin poop water hahahaha. Defintely the unglamourous side of animal training!!!
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Your job sounds awesome! Hope you're having fun! Miss you!
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