“As someone who now works behind the operations of #SacZoo, I would get a chance to meet up with some of the ‘feral’ coworkers that I’ve got to work with when I was hired when my namesaked Fam helped opened the Red Panda habitat back in ‘01... and I was a member of the zoo when I was Gizmo’s age (how about that, my older sis gifted me a membership before I could talk)”

“Before I’ve moved to the West Coast, I was a volunteer when I turned 5 or 6 since I knew the set up when I was in KC at the zoo there, (I was the 3rd youngest sibling) and now here near the Capital of Cali, I know ALL of the places that the Fuzzy and Feathered live and then some when I be conversating with the guests.”

Daryl Mower, II
“West Coast’s Zoological Smartypants (just like Gizmo)”
Born on the day The Navy got first commissioned (also on “M&M’s Day”), October 13, 1986
Zoological Operations (2016-Present; Small Mammal Keeper; 2001-16)

Lucia “Lucy” Swope
“A Bright-Billed Aviculturist”
Hatched on “Button Day”, November 16, 1992
Aviculturist (1997-2003 at Kansas City Zoo; 2004-Present at #SacZoo

Sacramento Zoo
“The Littlest (Biggest) Zoo In The Park”

Daryl; Del Paso Heights (Sacramento; Coatimundi)
Lucy; William Land Park (Sacramento; Toco Toucan)