2 Comments

Christmas 2013

Twas the night before Christmas and left at my house, a bag of sweet potatoes for the Museum Bears.  (If I were Sarah, I am sure I could have come up with some great rhyme… in fact she probably could write my entire Christmas post to the Poem Twas the night before Christmas– check out her previous poems here and here). The day started with me very very tired, and unable to find my glasses. I’ve got about 10-15 pillowsRead more

Caterpillars part 2

In my Caterpillars post, I talked about getting stung by one.  In this post, I will show you a couple of other caterpillars that I found in Explore the Wild. Once I found one caterpillar, which was a saddleback, my eyes began to see all the other caterpillars that are out in the area. This caterpillar (above) was on the climbing structure in the lemur yard.  I found it while I was putting the morning food out for the Ring-tailed lemurs. ThisRead more

Red Wolf links

      I’ve received a variety of information from USFWS  and RWC personnel in the past week or so about red wolves so I thought I would share with you. Click on any of the links below:       Becky Bartel’s photos of our wolves A new post (about the Museum!) from the Blog of the USFWS Red Wolf Recovery Program Washington Post article about red wolf  deaths from gunshot RedWolf_QtrReport_FY13-04 (2)      Read more
3 Comments

Caterpillars

Did you know that you can be stung by caterpillars? I was surprised when I got stung by one on the wolf cliff in Explore the Wild.  I didn’t know that it was a caterpillar at first but after describing what it felt like to the other keepers, they said it had to have been a caterpillar.  At that point, I was on a mission to find out what exactly stung me.  I needed to have a plan to properly completeRead more
4 Comments

Second Red Wolf shot

more bad news for the red wolves… a wolf was shot last week and now a second one this week. Here’s the link to previous information and a copy of today’s news release is below that. http://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2013/078   November 1, 2013 Reward Offered for Information Regarding to a Second Red Wolf Death The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is requesting assistance with an investigation involving the suspected illegal take of a radio-collared red wolf that was recently found dead.  TheRead more