By Jordan Schaul
Bree Barney loves her job, she really does! The small mammal keeper, like many, has a few miscellaneous reptiles and amphibians on her string. She boasts about getting to hold sloths and feeding Galapagos tortoises, but is most proud of the Como Park Zoo and Conservancy's participation in their first-ever conservation project involving the release of captive reared animals -- Wyoming toadlets.
And she gets to do it. Yes, she visits the field site personally and with other zoo herpetoculturists, many of whom are veteran zoo herpetologists, gets to release the captive reared animals back into the wild.
Bree admits that since childhood , all she ever wanted to do was "help our natural world and the animal kingdom to the best of [her] ability, whether it is a toad, a giraffe, or an orangutan."
In corresponding with Bree, it is clear that she takes her role as the lead Wyoming toad keeper at the Como Zoo very seriously, and it is a big responsibility. Today animal keepers not only participate in field conservation, they coordinate these projects in conjunction with government agencies.
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Wyoming Toads at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.
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