{"id":165654,"date":"2020-12-23T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=165654"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T20:14:48","slug":"uconn-magazine-eau-de-herring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/12\/uconn-magazine-eau-de-herring\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Eau de Herring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Grendzinski \u201916 (CAHNR) begins every workday at NYC\u2019s Central Park Zoo by lugging bucket after bucket of fish, some 100 pounds, up two flights of stairs. Waiting at the top of the stairs is a hungry mob of heckling penguins, who crowd her the moment she starts tossing herring. As they try to snap the prizes right out of her hands, they often pinch her forearms and leave a trail of bruises. \u201cThe penguins can be jerks, though lovable jerks,\u201d she says, admitting to stealing time from the black-and-whites to train the seals and sea lions, whose smarts make them her favorite species.<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating with an animal science degree, Grendzinski, 26, has worked at Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park Zoo and now at Manhattan\u2019s Central Park Zoo, with its melee of penguins, puffins, and seals. After working with UConn\u2019s many domestic animals, she found her calling with exotics during a summer internship at Bridgeport\u2019s Beardsley Zoo, where she dug up rocks to build a new exhibit and trained a bison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was coming home every day smelling awful, and I was like, \u2018This is what I want to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2020\/10\/19\/eau-de-herring\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Grendzinski \u201916 (CAHNR) begins every workday at NYC\u2019s Central Park Zoo fending off a mob of hungry mob of heckling penguins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":165655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224,2302,2076,2235,102],"tags":[2238,2253],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-165654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr","category-pathobiology-veterinary-science","category-research","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","tag-college-of-agriculture-health-and-natural-resources","tag-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 01:33:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165657,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165654\/revisions\/165657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/165655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165654"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=165654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=165654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}