Welcome to The Chicago Herp Society

Crocodile Cognition and Learning covers a variety of topics including sensory adaptations in alligators and crocodiles, intelligence and learning in the wild and in captivity and how zookeepers use this information to better care for and train our animals.

Maggie started out at Serpent Safari Reptile Zoo in 2007 as a tour guide, followed closely by the Wildlife Discovery Center in Lake Forest in 2009. Juggling both facilities for almost 7 years while finishing her Bachelor's in Biology at Elmhurst College and interning at local zoos. In June 2016 she accepted a job at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas as a Terrestrial Ectotherms keeper - or a herp keeper. Her focus is crocodiles and venomous snakes while also managing our invertebrate collection at the zoo.