The Nickel Keep-Away Game
Posted On Thursday, September 29, 2011 By Tiffany. Under Animal Personalities, Training Stories Tags: behavior, keep away, nickel, play, sea otter, trainer
Here’s a story about how Gracie outsmarts the trainer (me). Because the second floor balcony area of Ocean Journey overlooked the sea otter exhibit, some people thought it was funny to throw money into the exhibit like a wishing well. Coins can easily be ingested by sea otters and block ...
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Unrelated to the other whales, Taima was a bit of a loner, but very intelligent and extremely crafty. When I first started working at Sea World more than a decade ago, she was the easiest killer whale to recognize because of her beautiful straight dorsal fin. She swam usually towards ...
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Banging things against the acrylic and destroying the exhibit was a favorite past time for Gracie (Taylor preferred to just float or steal Gracie's food). There were huge boulders covering the grates at the bottom of the exhibit. Gracie liked to shove her body against the rocks to expose the ...
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Is Anyone Watching?
Posted On Sunday, April 3, 2011 By Tiffany. Under Animal Personalities Tags: bin, food, intelligience, sea otter, tool
Gracie was too smart for her own good. She was very clever, and found many ways to entertain herself including how to manipulate objects to her liking.
I went to work one day on my day off specifically to take pictures of the animals I work with. I watched from the ...
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