This Sunday I was lucky enough to score a volunteer oppurtunity at the St. Louis Zoo. Although I have volunteered there several times, I haven't had the chance to actually interact with animals and their respective enclosures before. I'd like to think that is the reason I was so excited to do to husbandry for the Zoo's American Burying Beetles. In any other situation, I would not be so okay with feces on my hands. Regardless of how gross this could be, I enjoyed it.
Here is some explanation, as I'm sure not everyone knows what "husbandry" is. In short, husbandry is the act of maintaining an animals living space. It has nothing to do with actual husbands or marrying animals, much to my father's delight (somehow he was convinced I was attempting to marry some beetles...).