Back on the Animal Support Hall we have an entire room of animals for education purposes which we call the EHR. The animals in the Education Holding Room are taken out by Museum Educators for special events, birthday parties, even trips to local schools.Read more
Posts filed in: Enrichment & Training
Thanks for the watermelons
We Tweeted and posted that we needed watermelons for Ursula to take her medicine in. Over 30 have arrived thus far, and yesterday, the keepers must have had a little extra time as they made some art and animal enrichment out of it. Read more
Shiver Me Timbers!
Ahoy everyone! I saw a group of sprogs swashbucklin’ near a great, grand ship- flying the Jolly Roger. Yo-ho-ho how they crack me up! Aye those landlubbers be causing trouble, one lass and two buccaneers sailing the open sea… Or just chasing each other around while climbing through this ferret ship hammock- check out the pictures below and this site for more pirate talk.Read more
QuikPost: leaning tower of pizza boxes
I was shuffling through a bunch of pictures that Katy had taken and I came across these. The picture title was so clever I figured I’d use it as the title of this post!Read more
Tucked in tight!
The other day I was cleaning EHR (our education animal holding room) and the first animal I came across was Jessica Opposum. She had a sleepover in the playpen the night before and I just had to show everyone where she chose to sleep… in a ferret hammock, now there is a significant difference in the size of ferrets vs opposums. Enjoy the photos below. Read more
Raisins Anyone?
Keeper Jill was organizing some kitchen cabinets and had 8 empty raisin boxes and a brilliant idea- Woodchuck enrichment. Keeper Sarah was scheduled inside the next day, she was warned about the potential mess she had waiting for her. And like a good sport she snapped a few photos before cleaning up.Read more