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The Oceletter The Oceletter Feb/Mar 2019 Ocelots Dinner Program When: Thursday, Feb 14, 2019 Where: Zoo Party Area, San Diego Zoo Who: Eric Artzen What: A Cock-of the Rock Dance Off How to attract a mate when you're Our Mission The Ocelots enthusiastically support the efforts of the Zoological Society of San Diego through active 5:45 to 6:15 p.m. Check-in outside at main gate. involvement, commitment to 6:00 p.m. Dining area open for seating selection. education, and 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. Cocktails and animal ambassadors. fund-raising. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dinner and program. Adult male In This Issue Head Ocelot Report 2 Mark Your Calendars 3 A Review of Our Last Dinner Meeting 4 Ocelots Pet Photo Contest 7 Grants Program Update 8 Grants in Action 9 Winning a Seat at the Speaker’s Table 10 30th Annual Employee Arts & Crafts Fair 11 Elizabeth Ruth Wallace 12 Opportunity Drawings 13 Sub-adult male Adult female About the Ocelots 14 Visit our website http://www.sandiegozoo.org/society/ocelots.html Page 2 By Bill Kolb Head Ocelot Report Head Ocelot Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 2018 was a very good year for the Ocelots We had six interesting and informative dinner meetings, three at the Zoo and three at the Park, as well as a Special Event at the Birch Aquarium The year was capped off with the December Holiday dinner in the ZPA tent with a great speaker, Nicholas Pilfold, talking about African leopards Please refer to the article written by Laura Swauger on page 4 for all the details At the end of 2018 several people retired from the Ocelots Steering Committee Wes Potterton is the incoming treasurer this year, taking over from Marcia Schofield Dee DeMoss and Charlene Krusas are the incoming Check-In Coordinators and will be taking over from Chris Campbell Marcia and Chris have each given over ten years of dedicated and excellent service to the Steering Committee and the Ocelots organization Other new Steering Committee members are Tabby Reed as Secretary, taking over from B J Phillips, and Alma Miller filling a new Steering Committee position as Grants Assistant The other big news for 2018 of course is the great success of the Grants Program which funded a record number of grants and also awarded a record number of grant dollars Please read the article by the Grants Coordinator Theresa Low on page 8 for all the details The Steering Committee has been working hard to identify and schedule an interesting line up of speakers for 2019 Please refer to this year’s calendar on page 3 for the speakers’ names, topics, dates and scheduled locations As mentioned before, there are three dinners scheduled for the Zoo and three for the Park in 2019 Visit our website http://www.sandiegozoo.org/society/ocelots.html Page 3 Mark Your Calendars Zoo and Park You won’t want to miss a single Ocelots event this year! Happenings Feb 14: Eric Artzen—Cock of the Rock. ZPA April 6: Zoo Spring Events begin April 11: Tammy Batson—Grevy Zebra. Pet Photo Contest. ZPA at the Zoo June 6: Dean Gibson—Baboons. ZPA April 21: Zoo Spring Events end — Aug 8: Mindy Albright—Elephant Babies and the Herd. Photo Contest. Hunte Pavilion, Safari Park May 25: Summer Safari begins Oct 10: Matt Kinner—Vet Services CT Scanner. Hunte Pavilion, Safari Park at the Safari Park — Dec 12: Marcus Chischilly—Wounded Warrior Project. Hunte Pavilion, Safari Park June 13: Wild Niite Out at the Zoo June 15: R I T Z Please note that these dates, venues, speakers, and topics are tentative and are subject to change. There is construction scheduled for the Children's Zoo and our access to the Zoo Party Area (ZPA) may be affected. Our speakers are staff at the Zoo members of SDZG and their schedules may change necessitating a change in our programs. June 16: Nite Time Zoo begins at the Zoo — Aug 18: Summer Safari ends at the Safari Park Contact Us Contribute — The best way to reach a member of the Steering Committee is to use the following to the Oceletter! Sept 2: Nite Time Zoo ends e-mail at the Zoo address: [email protected]. We invite you to submit articles and photographs for Sept 21: Zoo Food Wine and the Oceletter. This e-mail account is monitored frequently, and questions can be routed to the Brew Celebration member of the Steering Committee who should handle them. All content should be — submitted electronically to the Dec 13: Jingle Bells begins The following people can be reached directly: Oceletter Editor, Paul Brooks, at the Zoo Bill Kolb–Head Ocelot (619) 955-5006 [email protected] at Theresa Low–Grants/Logo Wear (858) 391-8616 [email protected] [email protected]. Paul Brooks–Oceletter Editor (619) 889-9051 [email protected] Visit our website http://www.sandiegozoo.org/society/ocelots.html Page 4 A Review of Our Last Dinner Meeting Three prehensile-tailed animal ambassadors greeted the members in attendance: the Virginia opossum, the South American tamandua (lesser anteater), and the Asian binterong Kathy Morrison thanked outgoing Steering Committee members BJ Phillips (secretary), Marcia Schofield (treasurer), and Chris Campbell (check-in) Mark Stuart shared the news that San Diego Zoo Kids is now in 193 facilities across 38 states and eight countries The program, made possible through the financial support of Denny Sanford, provides 40 hours of video on zoo animals and conservation to children in hospitals who can’t get out to visit their local zoo Ollie Ryder explained his presentation from the World Zoo and Aquariums conference, “Designing the Destiny of Biological Diversity: Preparing for the Future of Preserving Species ” Spurred by the work of SDZG’s Frozen Zoo, the worldwide organization has passed a resolution recognizing the value of such a facility, and went on to state that all zoos should support an accelerated plan to protect the biodiversity of our planet by actively promoting the collection of samples from their collections As an illustration of the value of such a program, Ollie explained that even though there are only two living northern white rhinos, the genetic diversity of the frozen cells is greater than that in the population of living southern white rhinos Theresa Low announced the success of the Employee Arts and Crafts Fair, where each vendor provides an item for an opportunity drawing to benefit the Ocelots Grants Program One Zoo veterinarian who has been learning to knit could not be there to set up a table, but donated enough items for five opportunity selections After Theresa presented photos of some past grant items in use by Zoo animals, Jenny Kerch stepped up to announce that members can now make donations to the Grants Fund online at Sandiegozoo org, using the dropdown item “Support Us” and then the Ocelots link The feature presentation was titled “African Leopard: The Forgotten Big Cat ” Nicolas Pilfold works with large carnivores through the Population Sustainability Division of the Institute for Conservation Research, primarily with big cats and bears Before delving into the main topic of his talk, Nick shared data on polar bears that was collected in part through Ocelots grants of an animal collar and helicopter time Even though the Ocelots provided only partial financial support, that support inspired other donors to appreciate the value of the project that led to complete funding Visit our website http://www.sandiegozoo.org/society/ocelots.html Page 5 Cont. from previous page Leopards share their habitat with lions and cheetahs Although similar in size and weight with cheetahs, that are daytime hunters, leopards are stockier and not as fast, and hunt primarily at night using stealth Leopards are incredibly elusive, but as the most arboreal of the cats, are often seen resting in trees, where they also cache prey that is two to three times their body weight Lions and cheetah have been studied enough that we know that their numbers in their natural habitats are declining, but with very little data the conservation status of leopards is unclear The leopard's main competitors are lions and hyenas Even though leopard cubs wean at three to four months, the mother cat may support their offspring for up to 35 months, but for shorter time if the impala population is larger Even with that support less than 40% of offspring survive to independence African animals face both direct and indirect threats to their survival Direct threats include human/leopard conflict, indiscriminant killing (such as being caught in snares designed for hoofed animals), and poaching Indirect threats include habitat loss and loss of prey species Between 2008-2016 the largest range areas of Africa have dropped by 50% Many of the people living in these range areas live a pastoral lifestyle, so their wealth is in livestock Leopards that kill that livestock, often several in one attack, are affecting the humans’ livelihood To determine how to protect the African leopard requires tracking and counting for accurate data collection, in Nick’s case within the 450 square kilometer Laikipia County in central Kenya As a primary method to observe leopards in the field, Nick’s team has placed 60 camera traps for this data collection The research is concentrated within a 45,000 hectares area, but each one of his 60 camera traps can cover only about 500 square meters, or about about three hectares total, which adds up to about 0 01% direct observation of that study area The first step in collecting useful data is finding the best placement for the cameras This requires looking for leopard scratch marks on trees from scent marking and tree climbing, and then placing cams at mid-knee to thigh height The next step is to attract leopards to within viewing range of the cameras, which is done by mounting a scent-soaked carpet pad near the camera Chanel #5 and Calvin Klein Obsession for Men have both proven effective for that job Nail snags added to the carpet pads collect DNA from the observed leopards when they mark across that enticing scent Visit our website http://www.sandiegozoo.org/society/ocelots.html Page 6 Cont.
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