With all of the construction going on, things move from one place to the other and sometimes get lost in the process. For quite a while, a lock went missing that was attached to one of our vehicles and was gone for several weeks. On a day where the conditions were perfect I was able to spot the lock. Unfortunately, it went down a drain hole. I had to pretend I was MacGyver and devise a way to retrieve theRead more
Wolf dig
When I first started working here we acquired 3 red wolves who were brothers. When we went into the yard to clean, we would often find items that were placed on a particular rock right near the area we walked into the yard. These items usually consisted of many parts of animals that were discovered by the wolves in their yard. You have to understand that anything that goes into the wolves territory is full game for them since theyRead more
Time for your medicine
If you have pets at home you probably have tried all the tricks there are. There is the medicine hidden in the cheese,medicine in pill pockets and for humans you may have flavor added to your elixir. But, what about the animals at the museum? Chinchillas don’t chow down on cheese and reasoning with a reptile rarely works. At the museum we have to be clever, because sometimes the animals can eat around the medicine or not take it atRead more
Black bears
Many times when I am in Explore the Wild I go the the Black Bear exhibit and will get an overall view of the exhibit. I do this mainly because I want to make sure I can get a clear view of all of the bears we have. We currently have 5. Below is a picture that I was able to snap that had 4 bears all in a line, Yona is the one that is missing. Sometimes, I overhearRead more
Gordon the gecko
On a Saturday morning a couple of months ago something seemed odd about our gecko. Gordon, is a Crested Gecko that goes by the name of Rhacodactylus ciliatus. This specie of gecko was recently thought to be extinct until a few years ago and is now on the endangered species list. They are from New Caledonia which is located by Australia and New Zealand. They are an interesting lizard that needs to lick its eyeballs to retain moisture and keepRead more
QuikPost:Jaybird update
Not too long ago I introduced our Blue Jay. I stated that I would update you on some new words if he learned any. He has learned two in my opinion. Unfortunately, its almost impossible to be able to record them because he is random when he goes into his babbling fits. The first noise is a noise that our baby degus made in the first few weeks. This is usually a high pitched scream, I ran into the EHRRead more