One night I was closing Carolina Wildlife and I was checking on all the animals. I started to walk past the superworms when I saw that they had a structure in their container. Our crickets, superworms and mealworms all get a regular diet just like our other animals do. But, if we have food scrapes that none of the other animals would want, then we give it to the feeder animals (which are animals that end up being a mealRead more
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Quiz: Who am I? –Answer
It’s Misha! Our Red-tailed Hawk. We had a couple warm days recently and I brought Misha down to the Butterfly House patio to spend some time warming his feathers in the sun. He promptly fluffed up and took a nap on the back of a bench. You might notice the grey or white cast his feathers seem to have. While this isn’t the greatest cell phone photo, his feathers have indeed turned grey and white as he’s aged. Misha isRead more
Lemurs get new toys, too!
With the holidays comes gifts of new toys! Thanks to a few very generous people the animals have gotten a lot of fun surprises! The keepers have set up an Amazon wishlist for items we would like for the animals and items that just help us do our job! Recently, the lemurs got a new puzzle feeder. Since some of our lemurs are very old, I wasn’t sure if they would want to interact with this new item. I putRead more
Lemur Enrichment
I’m always looking for new and novel enrichment to give out to the animals which can sometimes be a challenge. One day I was looking for a sensory enrichment for the lemurs and I was tired of using scents or spices. I remembered that we had leftover streamers from Cynthia’s birthday celebration. I decided to wrap some of their perching in it and hang some off the perching. Below are a few pictures of what it looked like! The nextRead more
Where are the Red Ruffed Lemurs?
If you have been to the museum lately you may have noticed the Red Ruffed Lemurs are not on exhibit. While our new Ring Tailed Lemurs are on exhibit in indoor viewing our Red Ruffed Lemurs are on vacation. By “vacation” I mean that they don’t have to come upstairs and be on exhibit. Instead, the girls are hanging out in the downstairs holding areas. They also have access to some outdoor side cages as well. They would normally onlyRead more
It’s Closer to Winter than Spring!
North Carolina might stay comfortably warm well into October, but I start thinking about blizzards and snowpeople by September. So in honor of “it’s almost winter, and Sarah wants to wear her comfy sweatshirts again” Day, a video of Elaina, Rocky and Patches, all wearing their winter finest: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdm2b_XsbA[/youtube]Read more