Pumpkin season is coming. Post-Halloween leftovers are great for Museum enrichment. However, we had a little pumpkin fun early with the alligators on Friday. You know alligators “like” ducks, so no big surprise that they “like” pumpkins too! (Look for more pumpkin blog posts in November!) Read more
Posts filed in: Enrichment & Training
QuikPost: Animals painting
Autumn posted last month a bit about lemurs painting. Read about animals’ painting at the National Zoo by clicking here. We’ll have an art exhibit with “animals’ art” the end of this year. Come by at take a look.Read more
One Department’s Trash…
…is another department’s treasure! We are doing a lot of cleaning up behind the scenes here at the museum. Our education department was getting rid of some tote bins and put them up for grabs. A lot of people grabbed some for personal use while I saw an opportunity for the lemurs! I had been wanting to create some bedding options for the lemurs and these were just what I needed! Big thanks to the exhibits team for cuttingRead more
Rubber Ducks
We emphasize enrichment here at the museum pretty heavily with our animals. It gives them something to do and a lot of the time they keepers and guests enjoy watching the animals interact. Our alligators are very inquisitive at the museum. I will admit, all my life alligators were probably my least favorite animal. I am not sure why, I always considered them fast, aggressive and just intimidating. Working here with our gators has helped me develop a better viewpointRead more
Training A Blue Jay
I used to be in charge of the pigs training, but since I was moved as an inside keeper I became Jaybird’s trainer. It is Jaybird’s job to be an education animal, you may have read in earlier posts that s/he had on alymaries and jesses. Well… those did not work out too well, it seems that s/he does not like those on at all and we kept finding them in pieces. We finally gave up and decided that JaybirdRead more
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
What do Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and our Ring-Tailed Lemurs have in common? They are all artists, of course! We do all sorts of things to enrich the lives of our animals and sometimes we do stuff just for fun! It is great when they are one in the same! Our bachelor group of lemurs got to try their hand at painting! How do we get our lemurs to paint you ask? Watch the video below to see! Read more