Art in Nature

I was heading to bear overlook to do the meet the keeper program when I looked down and saw: It almost looks like we painted it there but it is in fact Great Blue Heron poop in the shape of a bird! If you’ve been out to the wetlands, you’ve probably seen what looks like paint splatters but it is really poop from a pretty big bird. The culprit below:     I think we’ve all seen animal shapes inRead more

You Dropped Something: Part 1

The access driveway down to the lemur house is steeper than it looks. It takes a little practice driving the utility vehicles up and down it before you get the hang of just how much gas you need to climb it. Today’s lesson: Don’t floor the accelerator with the tailgate down. We were late to a meeting. This made us just a little bit later.Read more

Fecal Cup

Often times I ask the Keepers if they can retrieve fecal (poop!) samples for me to test. Usually I send them off with a small dixie cup for collection but on one particular day I hadn’t given Keeper Autumn a cup for collection so when I radioed that I needed some feces from the Ring-tailed Lemurs she made her own fecal cup!Read more

QuikPic: Martha Ferret

Of the 3 ferrets that reside with us, Martha is certainly not a morning ferret. Nor is she too keen on taking her medication first thing in the morning. She woke up this morning while I gave Abraham and Betsy their medications and promptly went back to bed!Read more