Each of the zoo’s penguins has their own personality, Brown said, whether it’s the way they eat, or something more amusing, like a penguin named Thor who showed a penchant for retrieving nesting rocks ...
Karen Philbrick of Oxford was named as the chief people and culture executive for the Detroit Zoological Society, which operates the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Center.
Perhaps that can be excused as Brown, a Detroit Zoo penguin keeper, and Van Dam, the zoo’s curator of birds, have been mingling in the menagerie for decades. “I need to remember how lucky I am ...