It’s hard to remember Eno and Ellerbe as little ones. As you can see below, they are full grown year and a half old red wolves. So… check out these video snips from when the were about one month old. Brace yourself… extreme cuteness to follow and a month later outside of the den:Read more
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Flashback Friday: Yona’s surgery
I mentioned I try to take time on Fridays for some reflection time. My father had surgery last week. It got me thinking about other surgeries, which lead me to think about Yona. She’s our youngest black bear. She arrived at the Museum January 15, 2010, at just under one year old. We noticed pretty quickly she had a bit of a limp, and her right front leg had some atypical curvature. It didn’t impact what she could or couldn’tRead more
Flashback Friday: Virginia
I was texting was former Museum staffer and Animal Care Team helper Leslie last week. She is expecting her second human child the end of the year. Got me thinking about babies and bottle feeding. Virginia is one of the last babies I bottle fed. Virginia is our almost 15 year old American black bear. She arrived at the Museum at less than four months of age weighing about 15 pounds, and still on a bottle. She was pretty adorable,Read more
Flashback Friday- Reptile Enrichment
I try to take a little time on Fridays and reflect. Sometimes it’s about the past week and other times I go further back. I came across these two videos looking through old emails. The moss for the snake, and tomato for the turtle were given to the animals, then the following was captured:Read more
QuikPics: Our little ones are big
It’s harder and harder to think of the red wolf pups as pups. A few photos from the wolf yard of pups, and alongside a big brother.Read more
Pup Check Follow-up
More pictures from Monday’s red wolf pup check: Rocket, below, has been and continues to be our smallest wolf. He weighed in just over 13 Kg Monday. He is still smaller than his litter mates, but it is getting much harder to tell him apart. His behavior is fairly different however. Much quicker to come down to eat and he’ll sit in the side cage area and not run away immediately from his caretakers. Very, very calm, that is, untilRead more