Creature Feature: Cher the opossum

This beautiful opossum is Cher! She lives on exhibit with her brother, Sonny, in Carolina Wildlife. In the picture above, she was in a tub of random enrichment items that was on the support hall. She had climbed into it during her exercise time while her exhibit was being cleaned. Cher (along with her brother, Sonny) was born in March of 2009 and arrived at the museum in late April. Both of the opossums were found motherless when they wereRead more

A Look Back … Part 1

Let’s take a look back at some of the goings on in the Animal Department. Some of these critters have moved on to further their careers and education, some of them have retired, some of them have passed away and some of them are still with us in the Animal Department, just older and wiser now! I have 10 years worth of memories and pictures of all the happenings in the Department… here are a few of my favorites! KeepRead more
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In Memory of J. Pos

  I’m sorry to report that Jessica Opossum passed away last week   Jessica Opossum enjoying her enrichment Jessica was one of our Education Holding Room animals, she got to educate many school and birthday party children during her time here with us.  Earlier this year our other female opossum Cher also passed away, opossums have a very short life span often living no longer than 3 years.     Click here to see Jill and baby Jessica dancing     WeRead more
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Today in the hall

The Animal Support Hall is always full of life.  Whether it’s a Sunday morning with one keeper and one volunteer inside or a Thursday right before lunch with eight keepers and five volunteers.  Today the hall was used for exercise.  Our opossums Sonny and Cher are a bit on the heavy side so we place their daily diet in various places around the hall and let them wander  in search of their goodies.  This afternoon while doing snake enrichment, I wasRead more

‘Possum pilling

I went around turning lights on this AM and checking on all our indoor animals, and stopped in the opossum exhibit, where Sonny and Cher live, to give them their meatballs.   They get some fatty acid and cosequin supplements daily, and we get them to eat it in a little bit of canned cat food,  sardines, eggs, or bread. They are usually ready and waiting when you open the door! To my surprise, Sonny, who doesn’t do a whole lotRead more