I grabbed the camera when I saw Keeper Jill walking down the hall with a shrimpcicle. What the heck is a shrimpcicle, you ask? Shrimp frozen into an icecube = enrichment for the water turtles. Jill holding a shrimpcicle Below are several pictures of 3 of our water turtles enjoying their afternoon enrichment Click on the picture below to see it closer upRead more
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QuikPost: hoarders
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f189tR2jVY[/youtube] The last couple of days we have been watching our muskrats closely because we were concerned one of them may have been acting a bit lethargic. So you can imagine what a pleasant surprise it was to see them both running around the exhibit early this morning! Most of our visitors that come regularly usually only see our muskrats sleeping in their wooden house. That’s because they tend to be most active in the morning (at least for theRead more
Meet Galileo Opossum
Here is a picture of Galileo opossum. You can see he has a keen eye for design by picking out paint swatches when he visited some museum employees. He arrived with his brother, Einstein in September of 2011. He and his brother came to us from a rehabber that found them after their mother was killed by a car. They were too used to people and too young to be released. The two later were put into Sonny’s old exhibitRead more
So, what’s wrong?
Hi everybody! Hope you guys are doing well, I am all kinds of fine and ducky, thanks for asking! For this post, we’re going to have a bit of a game. Now, I know you guys are all aware of my intellectual awesomeness, but now I’m going to give you a bit of a test. Ever play those “What doesn’t belong” games when you were a kid? Well here it is in blog form! I’m going to write a funRead more
For shame…!
So my friend Katy is another keeper here who specializes in the Veterinary aspects of our collection. She does the majority of her work through our vet room and making sure everyone stays healthy (animal wise, at least). But sometimes when we are a little short handed, she jumps right in and lends a hand to help clean exhibits or anything else that needs to be done. Unfortunately, in the excitement of cleaning an exhibit and scrubbing poo off ofRead more
Super Bowl prediction
Last year, we had our woodchuck Henry predict the Super Bowl winner. He chose correctly, this year Henry chose the PATRIOTS . I do not have this prediction on video because the camera wasn’t working correctly. However, I do have our opossum Galileo picking the GIANTS to win. I am really torn on what animal I should support. I am from New York so naturally I should side with Galileo, but Henry is my main woodchuck pal! Now, the videoRead more