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Article: Bats, otters, foxes -- this Montclair zookeeper cares for them all
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 27, 2009
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Kahuna, a fruit bat at the Oakland Zoo, has a face only a mother
could love. And boy does she ever.
When animal keeper Andrea Dougall of Montclair feeds Kahuna grape
juice out of a syringe, she sits patiently on her knees as he
slurps. Except for the fact that he's hanging upside down on a rope,
Kahuna looks like a baby suckling a bottle.
The 28-year-old Dougall gives that same kind of loving attention
to all 30 of the Island and Malayan flying foxes that reside at the
zoo. She knows each one by name.
"The first time I saw the bats, I thought they were the coolest
thing ever," she said during a recent interview at the zoo.
The Sunnyvale native started working at the zoo more than three
years ...
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