May 19th-

7:30 am- Pick up from hotel to Zoo in two trolleys.

8:30- Keynote 3: The Ripple Effect: How Rhino Conservation Safeguards Communities & Endangered Species

9:30- Bottoms Up: Taking shots at a modern approach to rhino foot care

9:50- Optimizing Transport Conditioning for Young Male Rhinos: A Case Study of Fionn’s Journey

10:10- An observational study of interspecific interactions between 1.1 Southern White rhinos, 0.1 Grant's zebra, and 0.5 Scimitar-horned oryx in a mixed species exhibit

10:30- Break

11:00- Rhino foot radiographs

11:20- The socialization and herd reintroduction of a hand-reared greater one-horned rhino calf

11:40- Applying zoo enrichment to orphaned black rhinoceros to promote successful rewilding

12:00- Tom Foose Award/Presentation, Katie Adamson Award

12:30- Lunch

1:30- Bull presence influences fecal progesterone values in managed female white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum): Insights from behavioral and hormonal monitoring at The Wilds

1:50- AIRS Overview

2:10- Crazy wounds in rhino

2:45- Discussion Panel: Rhino Repro

4:15- Announcements

4:30- End

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May 20th- 

7:30 and 8:00 am- Pick up from hotel to Zoo in two trolleys

8:30- Keynote 4: Northern White Rhino, BioRescue, and Indonesian Rhino Conservation Biobanking and Assisted Reproduction 

9:30- Keeper surveys detect complexity in African rhino temperaments

9:50- Geriatric Care of 1.1 Southern White Rhinos at Utah’s Hogle Zoo

10:10- Immobilizing Archie: teamwork makes the dream work

10:30 Break

11:00- Discussion Panel: Immobilizations

12:25- Featured Facility Award- The Living Desert Zoo And Gardens

12:30 Lunch

1:30- Round Table: Rhino TAG, SSPs & Populations management

1:30- Round Table: Bringing your workshop ideas home

2:30- Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) in southern white rhinoceros

2:50- Importing southern white rhinos from Namibia to the United States

3:20- Membership Meeting 

3:40- Announcements

3:45 End

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FOR THE GALA:

When attendees arrive back at the zoo- there will be trams taking people to The Harper Center where the gala will be held.  

3:30 pm                  Pick up from the zoo to the Embassy Suites

4:00 pm                  Pick up from the zoo to the Embassy Suites

5:30pm                   Pick up from Embassy Suites to Zoo for Gala event at The Harper Center

TRAMS WILL PICK UP ATTENDEES AT THE FRONT GATE.

6:00 pm                  Pick up from Embassy Suites to Zoo event at The Harper Center

(Concluded by 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. at the latest)

8:30 pm                  Pick up from Zoo to Embassy Suites

9:00 pm                  Pick up from Zoo to Embassy Suites

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May 21st- Zoo Day (Sign up for Behind the Scene tours at The Merchandise Table starting 5/19)

8:30 am - pick up from hotel to Zoo for Zoo Day  

9:00 am –pick up from hotel to Zoo for Zoo Day 

12:10-1:30 - Lunch at Harper (where we had the Gala)

4:00 pm - pick up at Zoo back to hotel

4:30 pm –pick up at Zoo back to hotel

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May 22nd-

Post trip- Blank Park Zoo (Register separately) 

Transportation not provided.