It’s HOT out there.

We all know it’s been a hot summer. We talk about it every morning before we start our day. Animals, just like people can succumb to heat related issues. However, we never want it to get that far with the Museum’s animals. We prepare every year for the temperatures to rise and how to best take care of ourselves and our animals.    We make sure that there is plenty of shade and water for our bears, wolves, and lemursRead more

Watermelon Day is coming…August 3.

Check out all that we’ll be doing to celebrate National Watermelon Dayon Friday August 3rd.  In honor of the upcoming day, for the 10 days or so leading up to the event, we’ll only be doing watermelon themed blog posts. In the meantime, check out the schedule for the day,  it should be great fun http://www.ncmls.org/visit/events/watermelon-day.Read more
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Gatorade for Goats

Well, not for all goats, just Chummix. According to Dr. Cannedy Chummix is sick, with “old goat disease”. Chummix is watched closely, and has been for some time now. About six months or so ago Chummix lost a lot of weight. He was checked for all the typical diseases, and Dr. Cannedy has seen him three or four times since then. Chummix still eats and does his usual activities… he’s just old. Chummix is currently a shadow of what he used to be, and looks likeRead more
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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
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All Grown Up

Here’s a few then and now photos of some of your favorite Museum critters. Enjoy.   MAX OUR STEER    SCOUT OUR DUCK    AUGGIE OUR PIG   VIRGINIA BEAR     ME (really)    Read more