Weighing Our Reptiles - Behind-the-Scenes at the Reptile House

Each day, our expert animal care staff train with our animals or perform checks to ensure they're all healthy.
For our Reptile team, one way to ensure our animals' health and wellness is by regularly recording their weight. Here, Zookeeper Charlee is weighing one of our Madagascar spider tortoises. Since this individual is smaller, Zookeeper Charlee already has a container set on the scale for the animal's safety. After setting the animal inside, she writes the tortoise's weight on its feed card as well other important records before returning it to its habitat.