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Snake Enrichment

Even our snakes get enrichment! This morning while in the RHR (reptile holding room) I looked over and saw this… Each animal reacts differently to enrichment, but changing a snakes habitat has the greatest enrichment potential. We switch it up week to week to keep it novel. We do enrichment for snakes 3 times a week. One day is handling each snake for at least 5 minutes, another day is adding natural materials, such as leaves, river rocks, pinestraw, pinecones, twigs,Read more

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

More eggs

Recently, a friend of the Animal Department donated some eggs to feed our animals. The animals that we usually feed eggs to are the bears,wolves,opossums and recently we gave one to the muskrats. In my opinion the opossums love them the most.They are real eager to eat them. Here is a little video I made of Galileo and Sonny Opossum devouring the gifted eggs.  Read more