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Loran Wlodarski
SeaWorld Orlando Education & Conservation Loran.Wlodarski@SeaWorld.com

Loran Wlodarski has been in SeaWorld Orlando's Education & Conservation department for 20 years. Currently he is the Science Writer, working on park graphics and other projects including educational newspaper supplements, teacher activity booklets, wildlife photography and creating fun activities for national events like SeaWorld's first-ever Chik-Fil-A kid's meal toy promotion.

Loran is the author and designer of six SeaWorld books, including the new SeaWorld Animal Souvenir Book. He is also an independent, award-winning author of two children's books - If a Dolphin Were a Fish (2007 Florida Children's Book of the Year from the Florida Publishing Association) and Felina's New Home  (2010 Bock Book Award for Children's Literature). Felina's New Home is endorsed by the Friends of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and is the gift a person receives for adopting a panther through the state of Florida.

Loran has been published in sources such as Grolier's Encyclopedia for Children and The Marine Mammal Encyclopedia . He has also served as a scientific consultant for Ask Magazine, Random House Books, Sylvan Dell Publications, Animal Planet, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

Loran has raised animals his entire life. One of his early jobs at SeaWorld was to raise some of their animals - newly hatched sharks, macaws, turtles, tropical fish and iguanas. Recently, Loran has had the extreme privilege of caring for SeaWorld's vast collection of penguins and was part of the team that helped to rehabilitate and release more than 150 endangered sea turtles in 2010. Loran lives with his wife and child in Florida.