If we had much more free time in the day, I could see myself getting creative and give animals certain watermelons PIGS solidrecipe.com TURTLES google RABBITS MY HOUSE RABBIT OWLRead more
More eggs
Recently, a friend of the Animal Department donated some eggs to feed our animals. The animals that we usually feed eggs to are the bears,wolves,opossums and recently we gave one to the muskrats. In my opinion the opossums love them the most.They are real eager to eat them. Here is a little video I made of Galileo and Sonny Opossum devouring the gifted eggs. Read more
Happy Fathers Day
Recently I did a Mothers Day post and thought I would give the Dads some credit too. Emperor Penguin- The males are the ones that balance the eggs on top of their feet and keep them warm for two months before they hatch. Sea Horse- The monogamous male is the one who gets pregnant. The female deposits her eggs into the male which is where they are fertilized. He can hold up to 1,000 of them! Greg Koch Wolves-Read more
Recognition
A while ago I was in my doctors office and saw a National Geographic that talked about animal recognition. It stated that “A team of British scientists has shown that sheep are able to recognize the individual faces of at least 50 sheep and remember them for more than two years.” I then started to think if sheep can do this with other sheep, do we think that the rest of our animals including the sheep recognize members of theRead more
Know Your Meme!
Sorry, this post isn’t about Mimi It’s about meme (pronounced meem). For those who are not that internet savvy, you can go to Know Your Meme and look up things that are internet phenomena. Now, at this time you may be wondering how this is relevant to this blog. A while ago there was a lot “what people think I do/what I really do” photos going around. That is where I found this I thought it was pretty true andRead more
Happy Mothers Day
Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there Here are some great moms of the animal kingdom Elephants: After carrying a baby for 22 months, she delivers 250 lbs of cuteness. Octopus- Talk about self sacrifice,this mom (depending on its species) can lay up to 200,000 eggs. As if that’s not enough work she may decide to eat her own arms because she will not leave the area to look for food. The kicker is after all that sheRead more