Who needs to carry around a camera anymore if we can just have our visitors and members take videos and pictures for us? Here’s another video that our trusty member Karyn took and edited, this time of Lightning. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBpwwp5ThBc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Again, if you have any great shots or videos of our animals that you’d be willing to share on the blog, contact us! My email is erinb (at) ncmls (dot) org. Of course, I can’t guarantee that everything sent to usRead more
Posts filed in: Enrichment & Training
The hammock
Summer is here! Bring me my lemonade!Read more
Mmmberries
Or: Bearberries Or: Feeling Like a Bear Around this time of year, everyone is thinking only of strawberry picking, or keeping an eye on those lush white flowers flowering all over their blackberry bushes, waiting for them to bear fruit. Or when they’ll start seeing fresh raspberries at our local farmer’s market. But who thinks about the mulberry tree with it’s plentiful, fragile berries that, when ripe, fall to the ground with the slightest touch? The bears think about them!Read more
How Enriching!
Twas a lovely, cool morning last week and I was working in Explore the Wild tending to the bears. The bear enrichment that day was to put syrup in holey balls, and I thought it’d be fun to do it from the bear overlook and watch the bears interact with it. When I got up to the bear overlook, I wondered if I would run into Karyn, a member who I see around the museum quite a bit. I hadRead more
QuikPost: Enrichment serving its purpose!
I just wanted to share some photos of our opossums making good use of their enrichment. This is Sonny and Cher, our Carolina Wildlife opossums that live together on exhibit. As you can see, they like to sleep together, whether it be in an old tree trunk, a hammock, or a shoe box. You may only be able to see one face peaking out of the shoe box, but both of them were in there. It was kind of funnyRead more
EnrichBits: A game!
EnrichBits: A monthly (ahem)- ok, quarterly, look at animal enrichment. Sherry found this a long time ago, and it’s a really interesting way to think about enrichment. This is a game to help experiment with what goes into creating an enrichment program. Below is the scenario; what kind of enrichment plan would you come up with? Leave your suggestions in the comments section and try to remember all your categories of enrichment! The zoo recently acquired 1.0 Humans (Homo sapiens)Read more