Alan Kardon retired from the San Antonio Zoo, the only job he had ever had. Kardon rose from front-line animal care specialist to vice president.
For the last 12 years, a man with a white beard and a San Antonio Zoo baseball cap has walked the concrete paths at the zoo campus. The morning strolls across the 38 acres weren’t a requirement for Alan Kardon , vice president of animal care and horticulture. They were a choice. It was a way to visit his teams, check on animals, greet customers and ensure the park was in good order for them. Bursts of red, orange and yellow bloomed from a backdrop of tropical-flowered bushes.
Crowds and noise can keep some from enjoying the San Antonio Zoo, but it’s about to be more inclusive The morning rounds were thousands of steps from when his career at the zoo began June 13, 1976. Disco ruled, a gallon of gas cost 59 cents and the nation celebrated its bicentennial anniversary. Feathered, neck-length hair framed Kardon's clean-shaven face, save for a thick broom mustache. The 18-year-old had the time of his life tending to snakes and lizards as he’d done since childhood.
Poison’s Bret Michaels credits San Antonio Zoo director with saving his life Kardon’s tenure as a keeper in the reptile and amphibian department began with supervisor and mentor Joe Laszlo, respected in the academic and zoo worlds. His workspaces were the reptile house and outdoor exhibits. Doorways had carved concrete, resembling wood, installed during President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration that employed Americans during the Great Depression.
Near-drowning at Sea World San Antonio connects three lives He said it takes a revenue source for the zoo, a nonprofit, to renovate, create new exhibits and expand operations. “Once we get people in to see the animals, we need them to enjoy their stay but then support us through buying food, buying products and doing experiences,” Kardon said. “That allows us to grow as an organization, where we can better the exhibit spaces for the critters. That’s always the number one priority.
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