Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 250 of Just the Zoo of Us. In this week's episode, I am joined by a wildlife educator who is here to tell us all about a modern-day dinosaur with some pretty extreme approaches to life. We're talking about bizarre beaks with built-in resonance chambers, the most unpleasant nesting situation I have ever heard of in my life.

How zoos are helping to conserve endangered birds in the wild and so much more.

Just the Zoo of Us presents the rhinoceros hornbill with Sarah Skiba.

Music I'm I'm here with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite

animal review podcast. I'm so excited to

bring a brand new friend to talk to you all today. This is Sarah Skiba. Say hi, Sarah. Hi, everyone. Thank you guys so much for having me today. Thank you for being here. I'm so excited to talk to you before we get into it real quick. Sarah, what are your pronouns? She her. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to talk about our cool animal for today because

it is funky. This is an animal that has a lot going on. There's a lot happening here with this

animal. But before we talk about this animal, I would like to talk about you a little bit. Now, Sarah,

how did you get into the work that you do with animals? My background originally is in zoos and

aquariums and in a lab that I was in in college. I grew up in Ohio and I always loved

animals. I always knew I wanted to work with wildlife and nature, but I didn't actually

know what I was going to do, which I think is what a lot of young people deal with. And I actually

went to college for environmental engineering. And then after about two years, I was like,

this is not what I was expecting. And I switched around a little bit. And ended up in conservation,

biology and ecology is my degree. And while I was in college, I had a really awesome

opportunity to work in a lab. It was a reptile physiology lab. So we worked with a lot of, I was in

Arizona at that time. So we worked with a lot of native species like rattlesnakes and hila monsters,

which was so awesome. No shortage of really cool reptiles in Arizona.

What a place to be studying reptile physiology.

And coming from Ohio and being thrown into that completely different type of ecosystem,

I was like, wow, this is exotic and amazing.

And we got to do work in the lab with the animals, and we got to do a lot of field work too.

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