Article: Bats, otters, foxes -- this Montclair zookeeper cares for them all

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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