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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
A Penguin Encounter
At Central Park Zoo
Story by Roger Webster
Photos by Chance Yeh
 ILDLIFE
Conservation Society and the staff at the Central Park Zoo hosted A
Penguin Encounter to thank committee members, including Allison
Stern, Jennifer
Creel,
with her daughter Alix, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, with Peter,
Sophia and Nicholas, and Debbie Bancroft, with Serena
and Will, for their hard work generating ticket sales for the
upcoming spring fundraiser, Penguins and Pearls.
Also
present were Grace Hightower with her son Elliott DeNiro,
Lisa Jackson with Quinn, Catherine Aaron with Oliver,
Jill Brooke with Parker, Patricia Duff with her daughter Caleigh
Perelman, Tama Janowitz with her daughter Willow Hunt, Nicole
Miller with Palmer, Andrea Stern with her son Simon
Perzman, Jeffrey and Fiona Slonim with Finbar
and Declan, Joanna Molloy with her son Eamon Rush, Joelle
O’Reilly-Hyland with Ogden, Aaron Gell, Alison Oneacre, Tom
Gates and R. Couri Hay.
Zookeeper
Mark Hall showed the children how to make food out of
carrots, honey, apples and peanut butter, freeze it, and feed it to
the polar bears Gus, Ida and Lily.
They
took a break for cookies and milk in the penguin habitat, after
which zookeeper Rob Granzay taught them how to feed
the Chinstrap and Gentoo penguins.
The
memorable afternoon ended with the sea lions singing for their
supper as the children, carefully guided by Hall, tossed fish in
their lagoon.
Meanwhile
the adults excitedly chatted about Penguins and Pearls, a gala
black-tie dinner dance under a tent around the sea lions island on
May 30. Call Susie Hanchett at 718-220-5090 for tickets.
The
children thanked Mark and Rob for the lessons and everyone left with
even more love for the animals and a better understanding of the
importance of the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs New York
City’s zoos and aquarium and is dedicated to saving wildlife and
wild lands all over the world.
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