2025 Rhino Keeper Workshop Agenda
May 16th- Pretrip-
11:00 am Ashfall Fossil Beds (Register separately and transportation not included).
$12/person
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May 17th-
9:00 am- Enrichment Seminar Pre-Trip with Josiah House at OHDZA (Register separately)
Transportation will not be provided from hotel to OHDZA.
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May 18th-
Sunday, May 18, 2025
TimeTitle/Topic/speakerSpeaker
7:30-8:30Attendees arrive
18:30Welcome, Opening Remarks IRKA
28:50Keynote 1: In Our Care, In the Wild: Linking Ex-Situ Management with In-Situ Conservation Monica Stoops
39:50Seeing through the Gray: Using Infrared Thermography to Track Estrus in the Greater One-Horned Rhino Janel Lefevbvre and Leon Krause
410:10Vitamin A Deficiency and Resolution in Rhinoceros in the United States Katie Sullivan and Robyn Lorscher
10:30Break
510:45Glenn and the Art of Wood Chip Substrate Maintenance Al Kennedy
611:05Black rhino browse program at Potter Park Zoo Adriana Davidson
711:25Simultaneously Managing Three Male Black Rhinos (Diceros bicornis spp.) in Human Care Kathleen Van Singel
811:45Collaborative care: Letting our greater one horned rhinos choose Amanda Powers and Carsyn Soccoro
12:05Announcements, Poster Presentations, Lunch at 12:30
913:30Keynote 2: State of the Rhino Maggie Moore, IRF
1014:30Enhancing Rhino Welfare: Integrating wild rhino behavior into captive rhino enrichmentJosiah House
1114:50Voluntary Blood Collection with 1.0 Indian Rhino Miranda Weldon
1215:10Nutrition for Rhinos: Practical and Realistic Approaches Katie Sullivan
15:40Wrap up/Announcements IRKA
15:45End
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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- Regrowth of a toenail
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 Admanson 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 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-Collaborative care: Letting our greater one horned rhinos choose
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 Facilty Award
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- Enhancing Rhino Welfare: Integrating wild rhino behavior into captive rhino enrichment
3:10- Importing southern white rhinos from Namibia to the United States
3:40- Announcements
3:45 End
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May 21st- Zoo Day
8:30 am - pick up from hotel to Zoo for Zoo Day and conference
9:00 am –pick up from hotel to Zoo for Zoo Day conference
12:10-1:30 - Lunch at Harper
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.
*Refunds not available after 4/1/25.
