Where’s Marty? At the Maryland Zoo Kitchen where food for animals is prepared

Hello Everybody!

The “The place’s Marty?” “Coolest locations we have taken you in 2022” week continued right now with a cease on the kitchen of the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. 

Now, I have to pause right here and provides a shoutout to the Nationwide Aquarium in Baltimore. 

And right here is the rationale. 

We first visited the Aquarium’s kitchen, which gave us the thought to go to the Zoo’s commissary. 

It’s no straightforward feat feeding the fish, and mammals, on the Nationwide Aquarium. 

However after we went to the Maryland Zoo, it turned apparent the challenges have been even greater. 

As an example, some animals can get COVID from meals uncovered to the virus. 

Think about coping with that for properly over a 12 months. 

The purpose, right here, is with out the Aquarium internet hosting us, we by no means would have thought of going to the Zoo. 

We are going to, at a later date, revisit the gem that’s the Nationwide Aquarium in Baltimore.

It price, roughly, $50,000 a day to run the Zoo, and a variety of that’s for meals. 

I requested President and CEO Kirby Fowler when he took the job if he realized how huge the “Elephant within the room,” (no pun supposed), the meals points have been. 

He stated he didn’t and labored within the kitchen for per week simply to get a deal with on it. 

Roughly 1,500 animals get fed each day and never unexpectedly. 

Some eat early, some eat late, some eat greater than as soon as a day. 

And the vitamin of every serving have to be spot on. It’s charted, and fairly strict. 

Once you go to the shop to purchase a bag of carrots, I assured it’s not this huge or the carrot itself, this huge. 

All in all, it’s fascinating how the Zoo is fed, and in case you watch the video I feel you’ll by no means take a look at a Zoo animal the identical once more. 

Tomorrow our subsequent cease entails, at occasions, a variety of damaged glass. 

See ya then!

Marty B!