Who doesn’t like enrichment videos?? Cereal strung up into a cotton mop head is one of my favorite enrichment items to watch our lemurs interact with. Personally, I think stringing a whole bunch of tiny pieces of cereal onto a mop head is tedious and not at all fun, but the result is worth it. Below are a couple videos I took of the Ringtails and Red Ruffeds spending some quality time with their favorite mops. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCtJ5Sl1a0k[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZK_Thi36H0[/youtube]Read more
There’s a Goat in the Tree
Rocky is a bit too short to reach the tastiest leaves on the tree with all 4 feet on the ground. So, after many attempts, he adopted a new routine for browsing. Previous to Rocky’s new found abilities, Chummix goat had been the champion Farm Yard tree climber. Unlike Rocky who climbs for more typical browse, Chummix only climbed trees for Poison Ivy vines.Read more
QuickPic: Ingenuity
Our handy office shelf broke, so we fixed it! Read more
Career Day
Most of the education work we animal keepers are asked to do happens on museum grounds in the form of programs, events and blog posts. Every once in a while something fun pops up and one of us gets to go out into the world to spread our knowledge to the sponge-like minds of eager children and adults alike. Well, maybe that’s pushing things a bit. This event wasn’t as much about “spreading knowledge” and “eager children” as muchRead more
What Happened to My Chair –answer
This happened. Here’s a link to the previous post with the question. Bugsy, our Holland Lop rabbit, lives in the education holding room and seems to shed large amounts of fur every 3 months and sheds less during the months in between. He is in constant need of brushing. The dead hair that easily pulls off of him in small tufts is typically a very light grey; which strikes me as silly since he’s a black bunny. Bugsy gets brushedRead more
What Happened to My Chair?
Keeper Jill walks into the office with a brush, a towel and an animal. She hands them all to me and says, “here, do something useful” and walks out. Which animal did she leave with me? Leave your guess in the comments! More importantly, is this animal now completely bald???Read more