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
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Watermelon Day 2015!
It’s Watermelon Day 2015!! Are you coming to visit today to watch our animals get silly over watermelons?! You should! There will be short programs happening all day long in the Farmyard, Bears, Lemurs, and in Carolina Wildlife. You can even leave a watermelon at the front desk for the critters to eat later in the day! Check out some of our past years below, or do a search in the orange bar below the blog for all ofRead more
QuikPost: Name those backsides
Names please:Read more
QuikPic: Cynthia
Even with the extremely hot temperatures we have been having the Red Ruffed Lemurs still like to get outside and sun themselves!Read more
QuikPics: Dashboard Cookies
Most everyone has heard the adage, “it’s so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk!” or some variation of it. I wondered, similarly, if it would be possible to bake cookies on the dashboard of my car on a 100+ degree day. This is a science museum, after all! Words of caution: I cannot speak to the safety of eating cookies that baked in a car for nearly 10 hours. There are eggs and other ingredients in cookieRead more
Yona Finds a Toy
It doesn’t seem to matter some days how creative we keepers are with our enrichment ideas. This day, the “best toy ever” was a stick. Enjoy the pics I snapped from the bear house of Yona keeping herself amused while Autumn and I giggled at her antics.Read more