For the past 12 years Jeff Lee, education director at Steve Martin’s Working Wildlife, has help develop and establish one of the most unique and diverse wildlife education outreach programs in the country. Attending schools, churches, civic events and fundraisers to enlighten and entertain audiences that now number in the tens of thousands. A typical animal line up for this outreach program is not your garden variety of pet shop exotics, but rather rarely seen creatures like an Indonesian bearcat, a South American prehensile-tailed porcupine and coatimundi, or an African Serval cat. A total of seven for each show. Even film stars like Tara the capuchin monkey of Pirates of the Caribbean fame are included in the performances where natural as well as trained behaviors are demonstrated. Jeff Lee remarks, “Our company did 100 percent animal training for movies and television before I came along. It became clear to me in the beginning that people really don’t know much about wild animals, especially their behavior. Now people have the opportunity to learn what these wonderful exotics are really like, up close and personal.”
To learn more about this program, you can contact “Steve Martin’s Working Wildlife” by calling 661-245-2406, emailing smartins@frazmtn.com , or simply visit their website at www.workingwildlife.com .