ROBERTSDALE, Alabama -- On Tuesday, June 6, activities kicked off at the library with animals from the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo.
Courtney Wise, the zoo’s program animal keeper; and assistant Jill Normand presented four animals on Tuesday, a ferret; a milk snake (not to be confused with its poisonous cousin, the coral snake); a chinchilla; and a chocolate skunk, which was specially bred in captivity as a pet.
The zoo has two chocolate skunks, Wise said, Pepe (shown here) and Milton.
“It turns out that they did not make great pets,” Wise said. And because their scent glands were removed (their main line of defense) and their natural color was bred out, they could not be turned out into the wild.
