During our Water Friends & Family experience, you will meet our otters, seals, and sea lions. Feed the otters and learn about their enrichment training, then enjoy a behind the scenes tour of our seal and sea lion habitat and observe and assist in a training session. Plus, you'll get to take a picture with our flippered friends! All participants must purchase a ticket.
When the Zoo closes, this two-hour behind-the-scenes experience begins! Join our ZooAmerica naturalists for a guided tour through select areas, including an insider's look at the Animal Health Center and a walk through the animal buildings. Feed the otters and bears and enjoy an up-close visit with two of our ambassador species. Flashlights will be available to spot the outdoor animals. This tour will provide excitement and adventure for your group! You may visit the Zoo on your own before the tour starts. All participants must purchase a ticket.
Get your camera lens ready for a unique experience suitable for photographers of all skill levels. During this guided tour, you'll enjoy a special opportunity to go behind-the-scenes to take up-close photos of our animals at select habitats. Choose from three exhibit animals and two ambassador species. Memories will be made! After the tour, you may stay and continue to visit the Zoo on your own. All participants purchase have a ticket.
Have you always wanted to go upstairs at Monticello? This exclusive pass takes you behind the scenes: through the first floor of Monticello and up the narrow staircase to explore the private quarters on the second and third floors, including the iconic Dome Room. Along the way, you will see unique architectural features and visit newly restored spaces that reveal the complexities of family life at Monticello. Learn about the Jefferson, Hemings, and Randolph family, as well as other free and enslaved people who lived and labored in the house. The Behind-the-Scenes tour provides a fuller picture of life at Monticello, and a better understanding of the complex world surrounding the man who authored the Declaration of Independence.
Ever wanted to step into the boots of one of our amazing animal care staff at your Henry Vilas Zoo? Well now is your chance! In this tour we will go behind the scenes and learn about how we take care of the many animals here at the zoo and our conservation efforts to help animals across the globe. You will take a tour of our animal health center, then make some special treats for the bears and see them enjoy it!
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park? Get a special sneak peek into the secret lives of your favorite wildlife and meet the wildlife care specialists who care for them, while exploring otherwise off-limits areas with a knowledgeable guide. Choose from a variety of experiences below!
Note: This tour takes place after sunset, and in the dark. Walkways will be lighted, and you will explore on uneven pathways throughout the Safari Park and in behind-the-scenes areas. Not all wildlife may be in view on a given day; viewing animals in behind-the-scenes areas is not guaranteed.
Trek through the Safari Park to see some of our youngest residents! This two-hour experience will take you around some of the large savanna habitats and to behind-the-scenes areas to meet some of our animal families. You will learn how we care for our amazing wildlife, and hear their conservation stories.
Discover what it takes to save giants! This 90-minute journey will take you by Safari Cart to behind-the-scenes areas, where you will hear firsthand conservation stories about how San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is saving elephants and rhinos around the world. Our story begins right here at the Safari Park, with our 50-year history of caring for and saving these giants. You will join the story as you get a closer look!
Follow our guides through staff-only, restricted areas to see behind the scenes spaces. Hear insider stories about what makes this place special, explore pipes and machinery, and learn more about how we care for our animals.
In filmmaking, behind-the-scenes (BTS), also known as the making-of, the set, or on the set, is a type of documentary film that features the production of a film or television program. This is often referred to as the EPK (electronic press kit) video, due to its main usage as a promotional tool, either concurrent with theatrical release or as a bonus feature for the film's DVD or Blu-ray release.
Shorter behind-the-scenes documentaries are often used as a bonus on DVDs, as it offers more insight into the film, how it was made, and to credit the film crew. Occasionally, some films have included a "making of the making-of" as a joke.[1] The making-of is also often released for TV as a part of the promotion of the film.
Walk the catwalk above Shark Alley, where sharks swim just inches below; check out the food prep kitchen; participate in fish feeding in Blacktip Reef; and visit the sharks from behind the scenes as you learn about these incredible predators of the deep.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to hand-feed an okapi? Or get up close with a zebra? Now is your chance! The Behind-the-Scenes Tour program takes guests one step closer to the animals at the Sacramento Zoo. Get up close to the animals, visit behind-the-scenes areas not accessible to the general public, receive a guided walking tour from one of our educators and see what goes into the incredible care the animals receive every day.
Come join the keeper team in creating animal enrichment items!
This tour will take you behind the scenes of the Animal Ambassador area, where you will learn how we encourage natural behaviors and stimulate the minds and bodies of our amazing animals. You will hear about the different types of enrichment we offer our animals and why it is an essential component to animal welfare. There will be opportunities to help with a training session and put together some enrichment items for selected animals. Your excursion will wrap up by observing the animals interact with your enrichment item which directly contributes to our high standards of care.
Allow plenty of time for parking and arrival. The zoo opens at 9 am and you are welcome to explore the zoo before and after your Behind-the-scenes Tour. Guests arriving five minutes or more past the scheduled start time will be unable to join the tour.
Your tour will take place throughout the zoo and in animal areas. Closed-toe shoes are highly recommended for all tours. Some surfaces in behind-the-scenes animal and keeper areas may be wet or uneven, and you may be walking through a variety of substrate such as dirt, pebbles or bark chips. For animal health and safety, you may be asked to dip the soles of your shoes into a cleansing solution before entering behind-the-scenes areas. Depending on your tour, you may be bending or reaching to feed or touch animals. Please dress comfortably.
We want you to enjoy every minute of your behind-the-scenes tour. Photos are permitted throughout the tour and a few great photo ops will be available! Your tour guide is also available to take group shots or photos for you at certain points but you must provide your own camera.
Make your next Zoo visit even more special by booking an exclusive behind-the-scenes experience with some amazing animals! Our interpretive specialists and animal care specialists welcome conservationists like you to foster a deeper connection with wildlife and wild places through these educational and interactive experiences. Reserve your spot today, spaces are limited!
Yes, one behind the scenes experience purchase covers all four participants in your party. You do not have to purchase an experience for each member of your party. General Zoo admission is sold separately and must be purchased per participant.
The Aquarium is pleased to offer new ways for guests to peek behind the curtain to see just what it takes to feed and care for our animals. With two different tours available, you will be able to customize your visit with the tour that best suits your interests and schedule.
A knowledgeable Aquarium educator will spend 1.5 hours guiding you and your party through the River Journey and Ocean Journey buildings, where you will gain a new perspective on your favorite exhibits and get a peek behind the scenes to see how the animals are cared for each morning. You will even have the unique chance to meet one of our ambassador animals during your tour.
Join us for a sneak peek behind-the-scenes of the habitats that guests see everyday. You and up to 9 other people will join zoo staff for a behind-the-scenes tour of one of the areas listed below to see where the animals spend their time while not on exhibit and learn how much goes into caring for the animals at the zoo.
Learn how we keep an aquarium up and running for the fish, penguins, sharks, and marine invertebrates that you see in the habitats. You will also have an opportunity to touch a sea star and an urchin while behind the scenes.
Page 17BEHIND THE SCENES.CHAPTER I.WHERE I WAS BORN. MY life has been an eventful one. I was born a slave--was the child of slave parents--therefore I cameupon the earth free in God-like thought, butfettered in action. My birthplace was DinwiddieCourt-House, in Virginia. My recollections ofchildhood are distinct, perhaps for the reason thatmany stirring incidents are associated with thatperiod. I am now on the shady side of forty, and asI sit alone in my room the brain is busy, and arapidly moving panorama brings scene after scenebefore me, some Page 18pleasant and others sad; and when I thus greet oldfamiliar faces, I often find myself wondering if I am notliving the past over again. The visions are so terriblydistinct that I almost imagine them to be real. Hourafter hour I sit while the scenes are being shifted; andas I gaze upon the panorama of the past, I realize howcrowded with incidents my life has been. Every dayseems like a romance within itself, and the years growinto ponderous volumes. As I cannot condense, Imust omit many strange passages in my history. Fromsuch a wilderness of events it is difficult to make aselection, but as I am not writing altogether the historyof myself, I will confine my story to the most importantincidents which I believe influenced the moulding ofmy character. As I glance over the crowded sea of thepast, these incidents stand forth prominently, theguide-posts of memory. I presume that I must havebeen four years old when I Page 19first began to remember; at least, I cannot nowrecall anything occurring previous to this period.My master, Col. A. Burwell, was somewhatunsettled in his business affairs, and while I wasyet an infant he made several removals. Whileliving at Hampton Sidney College, PrinceEdward County, Va., Mrs. Burwell gave birthto a daughter, a sweet, black-eyed baby, myearliest and fondest pet. To take care of thisbaby was my first duty. True, I was but achild myself--only four years old--but then Ihad been raised in a hardy school--had beentaught to rely upon myself, and to preparemyself to render assistance to others. The lessonwas not a bitter one, for I was too young toindulge in philosophy, and the precepts that Ithen treasured and practised I believe developedthose principles of character which have enabledme to triumph over so many difficulties.Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heapedupon me, I can bless it for one thing--youth's Page 20important lesson of self-reliance. The baby was namedElizabeth, and it was pleasant to me to be assigned aduty in connection with it, for the discharge of thatduty transferred me from the rude cabin to thehousehold of my master. My simple attire was a shortdress and a little white apron. My old mistressencouraged me in rocking the cradle, by telling me thatif I would watch over the baby well, keep the flies outof its face, and not let it cry, I should be its little maid.This was a golden promise, and I required no betterinducement for the faithful performance of my task. Ibegan to rock the cradle most industriously, when lo!out pitched little pet on the floor. I instantly cried out,"Oh! the baby is on the floor;" and, not knowing whatto do, I seized the fire-shovel in my perplexity, and wastrying to shovel up my tender charge, when mymistress called to me to let the child alone, and thenordered that I be taken out and lashed for mycarelessness. Page 21The blows were not administered with a light hand, Iassure you, and doubtless the severity of the lashinghas made me remember the incident so well. This wasthe first time I was punished in this cruel way, but notthe last. The black-eyed baby that I called my pet grewinto a self-willed girl, and in after years was the causeof much trouble to me. I grew strong and healthy, and,notwithstanding I knit socks and attended to variouskinds of work, I was repeatedly told, when evenfourteen years old, that I would never be worth mysalt. When I was eight, Mr. Burwell's family consistedof six sons and four daughters, with a large family ofservants. My mother was kind and forbearing; Mrs.Burwell a hard task-master; and as mother had so muchwork to do in making clothes, etc., for the family,besides the slaves, I determined to render her all theassistance in my power, and in rendering her suchassistance my young energies were taxed to theutmost[.] Page 22I was my mother's only child, which made her love forme all the stronger. I did not know much of my father,for he was the slave of another man, and when Mr.Burwell moved from Dinwiddie he was separated fromus, and only allowed to visit my mother twice a year--during the Easter holidays and Christmas. At last Mr.Burwell determined to reward my mother, by makingan arrangement with the owner of my father, by whichthe separation of my parents could be brought to anend. It was a bright day, indeed, for my mother when itwas announced that my father was coming to live withus. The old weary look faded from her face, and sheworked as if her heart was in every task. But thegolden days did not last long. The radiant dreamfaded all too soon.
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