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RE: Todays highlights of a Zookeeper and What's so good about Reindeer anyway?
Hibernating turtles in a fridge is one way to do things I guess! Do you have to check on them while they're in the fridge? And does it change the temperature noticably enough for them if you do?
Good idea to do the species thing at the end of each article as well, will be a while before you run out ;D
Oh yes, we check on them daily. We gently squeeze their feet to ensure they respond to us then we will open and close the fridge door repeatedly to allow oxygen to circulate. Then each week we will health check make sure their eyes nose and cloaca is clear otherwise we will remove them slowly from hibernation. Each time we check them we have to do it quickly and the temp will go up in the fridge but not enough to cause problems fortunately! We ensure the fridge is at a constant temp during the 6 weeks preparation so we take daily temp readings morning and night also! It’s a very interesting process I will say!