Cassidy recently took the Designing Captive Animal Environments course at Unity College with Professor Gina Fisher Caldwell.
"I'm majoring in Captive Wildlife Care. Designing Captive Animal Environments was part of my required curriculum to earn my degree. This class teaches a lot of useful information for anyone going into the captive wildlife field, while also being a fun class! You get to act as the project coordinator of your facility and design an exhibit for an animal of your choosing, and each week you incorporate new design elements into the exhibit that comply with animal husbandry and welfare standards. I loved being able to draw a blueprint of my lion exhibit and designing a naturalistic and immersive enclosure for them. Reviewing lion care manuals and AZA standards helped me learn more about how to care for an animal I one day want to work with as a zookeeper."
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